Lecture 7: Monsters, Materials & Skyscrapers

Reading Response: TsuTsui

March 26, 2023 lopa2022@connect.hku.hk

This week’s reading: “Oh No, there goes Tokyo” is a fascinating take on apocalypse and its place in pop culture. In this short extract, Tsutsui unravels the intrigue that apocalypses and Armageddons can have on people; he deciphers why and how these interests come to be, using Japan as a historical case study as the basis for his argument. Tsutsui explains this cultural phenomenon by observing the political, economic and social trends of Japan in different moments in history and elaborate on how all of these contribute to create a pseudonostalgic yearning for an apocalypse to bring society back to

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2023 Blog, Lecture 7: Monsters, Materials & Skyscrapers

Reading Response: Esther M. K. Cheung

March 19, 2023 u3599407@connect.hku.hk

In this reading, the author looks at different aspects of why public housing estates became haunted during the reign of director Fruit Chan. I’m a student from local, and in my view, Hong Kong is a place that has different needs for humans, Where there is a huge disparity between rich and poor. For local people, it was hard to imagine what a global economic place would be like, and some places seemed haunted initially. However, In my view of Hong Kong, I watched Chan’s film to further investigate the state of public housing. The magnificent infrastructures ( IFC, ICC

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