The Diacritic turns One – An Installation on Library Level 1
Over the next two weeks, student publication The Diacritic will be celebrating its birthday from 17 January to 28 January 2022.
Who is The Diacritic?
The name, Diacritic, refers to the diacritical punctuation marks added to letters (as in the accent in á). It is also a play on ‘critic,’ as we are critics: not only of the topics we are exploring, but also of the way we imagine what research is for.
The Yale-NUS Society for Academic Research (YNSAR), the parent organisation, was founded in 2015 to empower research. However, they found that traditional scholarship as it is—niche, exclusive, and formalistic—is inaccessible for most, and disconnected from public discourse in Singapore.
The Diacritic is the magazine that reimagines the forms research can take: rigorous, well-supported, yet empathetic in telling the stories of Asia and the world. As a diacritical mark that alters the sound and meaning of a word, so too does The Diacritic accent contemporary discourse by accentuating critical perspectives. Big questions, provocations, original ideas − The Diacritic has them all, in a voice of their own.
“At The Diacritic, we accent discourse.”
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 the Asian Civilisation Museum where artefacts can be viewed in 3D.
The Birthday Exhibition
Preview of the three zines created by The Diacritic
To celebrate its first birthday, The Diacritic goes into print—with three zines celebrating 18 articles for you to browse, and a special version of each zine with a hidden code in it. Crack the code and earn an invite to The Diacritic‘s ultra-exclusive pizza birthday bash in Week 3. The Diacritic has also hidden a post-credits teaser for their next article for you—will you stay to watch it?
For two weeks only, The Diacritic can be found offline at the Yale-NUS Library Level 1, opposite the library counter.
Otherwise, The Diacritic can always be found dwelling online, and @the.diacritic on Facebook and Instagram.
