Peer pressure and narratives of success have made the world increasingly intolerant to sidetracks and mistakes. We are always told to have a goal, a plan, or at least a schedule, in order to be successful. Yet when I looked up my professors’ resumes, I found gaps between colleges and graduate schools. I wondered what they did in those years, and if they ever regretted digressing from the “right” path… Or were these sidetracks important parts of what shaped their main path?…
Brought to you by Ashley Chin, Cindy Huang, Danan Lee, Rebekah Nix, and Qian Zilan. Over the course of one year, from Jan 2021 – Jan 2022, The Diacritic has published over 18 articles, including: an interview with a Nobel Prize Laureate, an analysis of Tik Tok, and most recently—a digital museum in collaboration with…
It is a cliché that we live in an interconnected world. What is less obvious is that, historically, interconnection is not the exception but rather the rule. In our modern urge to demarcate and celebrate ethnic identities and national characters, we often lose sight that humans have been interacting, creating, and trading across dividing lines since time immemorial. From a Greek-influenced Buddha head of the 4th century to a truly global patchwork of the 18th, we here at The Diacritic have partnered with Singapore’s Asian Civilisations Museum to showcase three artefacts that best exemplify this fact….
The Diacritic, in collaboration with the Asian Civilisations Museum, is proud to present the Digital Museum, an attempt to imagine the future of heritage appreciation using modern web technologies and an appreciation of the past. We are proud to showcase artefacts that exhibit the interconnected histories of the civilisations of Asia, which are bound through the threads of cultural influence and centuries of trade….