“The Punctum”, the title of the e-journal, being the peripheral, the unexpected, the insignificant, being the binary opposite of the “studium” (viz. political correctness), denotes as well as describes most of the contemporary cultural and intellectual tastes.
“The Punctum” currently showcases scholarly and creative works accomplished by fellow-academics of both the English Team and the Cultural Studies and Creative Industries programme in Division of Arts and Languages. With its ultimate objectives to enliven intellectual interactions across all CIE colleagues working in areas encompassing art, language, literary and cultural studies, and any humanities-related disciplines, we aim to develop the e-journal into a College-wide online publication platform featuring both academic attainments as well as collaborative efforts of CIE lecturers.
Street photography is one of the most exciting genres of photography. Documenting our everyday life is challenging because it requires sensitivity, patience, imagination, and luck. Henri...
Since an out-of-the-ordinary auction held by Christie’s in 2021, “NFTs” became a very popular topic and started to permeate culture. The auction was unprecedented because it...
This article is (also) inspired by John Berger (1926-2017), who’s always been influential in the domain now known as ‘visual culture’ ever since he published that...
Nobody dares to deny the importance of English in Hong Kong, a metropolis of which competitiveness is always tied up with the international language. Citizens or...
