Lucian Tion

Lucian Tion graduated with a doctorate from the National University of Singapore, and has been a journalist and theatre/film director for over a decade. HIs cultural politics pieces have been published in Senses of Cinema, Apparatus, New Eastern Europe, Baricada, Revista 22. Apart from film, he is passionate about socio-political and cultural issues in eastern Europe and China.

Is totalitarianism on the rise in the East?

We should distinguish between Orban’s rightfully penalized measures of ruling by decree and less stringent regulations meant to curb the unruliness of a class which has placed itself above the law.

By Lucian Tion

/ 25 May 2020

Is totalitarianism on the rise in the East?

Neoliberal realism: eastern Europe’s doomed love affair with western values

Doesn’t eastern Europe, cinema as well, need to locate its identity in new ways to negotiate its history; the traumatic memory of the past included?

By Lucian Tion

/ 17 Mar 2020

Neoliberal realism: eastern Europe’s doomed love affair with western values