Theatre of Agencies: The LGB Story

Abstract

Not solitude and solidarity,
not solitude or solidarity,
but solitude-solidarity
will be the new adventure
chanted by new poets.
(Leo Bronstein, 1953)

In the following pages I will present a reading of the intellectual lives of two cognitive scientists, a Singaporean-born, Chinese-American, Lan Gen-Bah (who in recent years has often presented herself simply by the initials LGB), and her mother, the late Chiang Mo-Jo. It is my hope that these personal topographies may reveal certain performative tendencies embedded in the ‘cultures of science’.