Hong Qin

Poetic Transposition and Uneven Freedom: Space, Materiality, and Imagination in All We Imagine as Light

Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine as Light moves from an observational encounter with Mumbai toward more character-bound forms of desire, memory, and imagination. This article defines that movement as “poetic transposition”: a social fact is carried into a new sensory or imaginative register while the constraint that orga...