In another era, the mish-mash presentation of Africa would have been the focal point of criticism. But this is not the age for facts.

Would communication beyond the semiosphere be conceivable?

Strangeness is everywhere, but strangers are only where we define them.

it seemed like we’d just been in some horrible dream

Where do you go when you disappear?

In his photographs and texts, ­Calcutta-based Soham Gupta forces the tension that arises between fiction and real-life conditions in as yet unseen ways.

“I don’t believe in progress, no.”

J.G. Ballard’s self-declared ‘Immodest Proposal’ for a global war-­alliance to exact the destruction of America demonstrates the provocatory zeal of his last fiction plans, as well as their enduring prescience.

Philosophy is found wanting. It is considered anachronistic, some say dead. The tradition is in ruins.

With Bely, a continuum is continuously produced between visceral organic states, political states of society and meteorological states of the world.