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The Fulcrum Five is a bi-weekly essay by Vivienne Chow, founder of Cultural Fulcrum. It synthesises global news headlines while reflecting on the world we are living in.

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📍Five observations, one bigger picture—The Fulcrum Five 2026.08.31

The Fulcrum Five is a weekly essay by Vivienne Chow, founder of Cultural Fulcrum. It synthesises global news headlines while reflecting on the world we are living in.

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📍Five observations. One bigger picture.

The Fulcrum Five is a weekly essay by Vivienne Chow, founder of Cultural Fulcrum. It synthesises global news headlines while reflecting on the world we are living in.

The controversy surrounding the renaming of the Taiwan Pavilion at the Gwangju Biennale has occupied much of my bandwidth thi…

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📍Five observations. One bigger picture.

The Fulcrum Five is a weekly essay by Vivienne Chow, founder of Cultural Fulcrum. It synthesises global news headlines while reflecting on the world we are living in.

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📍Five observations. One bigger picture.

The Fulcrum Five is a weekly essay by Vivienne Chow, founder of Cultural Fulcrum. It synthesises global cultural news while reflecting on the world we are living in.

Has the future we fear already arrived? Reviewing t…

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📍Five observations. One bigger picture.

The Fulcrum Five is a weekly essay by Vivienne Chow, founder of Cultural Fulcrum. It synthesises global cultural news while reflecting on the world we are living in.

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📍Five observations. One bigger picture.

The Fulcrum Five is a weekly essay by Vivienne Chow, founder of Cultural Fulcrum. It synthesises global cultural news while reflecting on the world we are living in.

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📍Five observations. One bigger picture.

The Fulcrum Five is a weekly essay by Vivienne Chow, founder of Cultural Fulcrum. It synthesises global cultural news and reflects on the world we are living in.

This week’s news has been haunting both my current home and my former one.

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