[“Occupiers on the march in Kowloon” (SCMP)]: Apparently Occupy Wall Street has spread to HK? And apparently I write for SCMP (I don’t…apparently I just have a popular name). So my impression after a year is that HK protests a lot. More than you would have anticipated. Sometimes they are taken seriously, sometimes not. I’m still […]
Monthly Archives: October 2011
on Chineseness (notes)
The problem of “Chineseness” as a historical construction; the problematic implication of “real” versus “fake” Chinese; hybridity as a productive rather than empty space… [Rey Chow, “On Chineseness”; Ien Ang, “On Not Speaking Chinese”] “"the West"is what ‘peoples in the so-called non-West have to refer to and rely on so as to construct their own cultural […]
tangents of the information age
The articles actually have little to do with one another, but some notes for myself: + sudden proliferation of information and data as a result of new technology, social media, globalization + new and unexplored ethical terrains + implications for the LIS field + paradigm shifts, like plate tectonics, the earth breaking apart and realigning […]