The Polyphony
What if your morning routine isn’t actually yours? From the strategic sequence of your alarms to the global network behind your first cup of coffee, waking up has become less of a fresh start and more of a digital negotiation. Blending personal narrative with contemporary critical theory, this piece deconstructs the fragile, beautiful mess of what it truly means to “become a self” in a world of constant connection.
When we watch Disney’s Zootopia, it is easy to be swept up in the vibrant, glossy optimism of a city where “anyone can be anything.” But let us look past the colourful surface, and tangle the meticulously managed system built on deep-seated anxieties and infrastructures of distrust. This paper pulls back the curtain on the film’s playful storytelling to reveal a much sharper, more complex analysis of institutional power and societal inequality than meets the viewing eye.
This student magazine is not just a place to publish writings, but also place for unbinding creativity, personal journeys, vulnerability, identity, and more things connected with our world. In this piece, author and co-editors try to catch this freely roaming “living-entity” by their words, and introduce its messinesses and uniqueness it to readers.
Polyphony Student Journal’s Issue 5 is now available online! Enjoy our creative and thoughtful works by GDP students from the link below. Letter from the Editor Dear Readers, Hello! How has 2024 been for you so far? I’m Chok from Malaysia and also a soon-to-be 4th-year student who constantly laments the complexity of our worlds […]
– diary entries of a tree and a person Words and Visuals by Jia Xuan Chok In my reality, trees and people both have their own ways of documenting life. I decided to take a third-person perspective and peek into their diary entries (don’t ever do that in real life), weaving their stories into a […]
What does coming back home after years of living in a foreign country feel like? Walk with Nguyen Manh Quoc Trung as he recalled his time in Vietnam, struggling with feeling like a stranger in his home country, which led to contemplation about label and identity.
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