by itchysilk | Sep 23, 2026 | THE ITCH
I grew up and read a great deal about state violence, about ideological interpellation, and I came to see clearly enough how the concept of “everyone” can be used, within structures of power, to swallow the individual. There is, every month, a night like...
by Leon Sun | Feb 25, 2026 | THE ITCH
Beijing. I am seated in the audience of the National Centre for the Performing Arts. On the stage below, an unmistakably deliberate narrative is laid out—birch forests, permafrost, feminine softness, and the order of the collective. The moment the first piece begins,...
by itchysilk | Feb 5, 2018 | THE ITCH
Mao, Chairman Mao or Mao Zedong was a power house of political, social and ideological force in his life time. Perhaps as with all those who make great changes to any social fabric and status quo, his life is not without controversy. Undoubtedly the adage there is no...
