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Notes: How should an extremist smell?
Brief acknowledgement that I have translated a book: Mai Jia's The Colonel and the Eunuch
Considering Yeonmi Park: Another preparatory sketch, another exercise for an essay on dissidents
Richmond, Meguro, Subei, the Wasteland: Preparatory sketches, an exercise for an essay on dissidents
JRA URA / LOD NAGANO / INSIDE OUTSIDE
Some notes after the closure of a beloved online media outlet (we have become stupider)
Briefly, an ode to Misora Hibari
Sakaguchi Ango / what should be conserved / burn down the temples / Datong wall
Exiled from the discourse / sanctions piece reflections
Artificial intelligence is for nostalgia / Miyako Harumi [two halves of entries]
Translation, excerpt, Sun Ganlu's A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains
Diary (16) [2010 resuscitation]
Pandemic project / CCTV-6 interstitial music / nostalgia again
Paris 1924 Moscow 1934 New York 1944 San Francisco 1954 London 1964 Mogadishu 1974
Early stage Việt Linh fandom / Dấu ấn của quỷ (1992)
A quick note on slums (answering debates on social media, instead of being productive)
Recycled: Returning from the beach to learn that Peco-chan and Ryuchell have divorced.
Dai Jinhua on elite overproduction and the misery of middle-class youth
Brief note: 50,000,000 Taiwan Experts (Can't Be Wrong) (but this is actually about France)
Ketamine and state capacity ASMR
Incomplete notes on Anne Alombert / digital civilization / Tu Zipei from an airport lounge
Instead of anything substantial, a brief personal essay about language learning
Written sometime around 1/6/20: Dalian dancehalls, trams
Reading list for Chinese cybernetics
National addiction, state power, compassion and compulsion, and the need for models
René Viénet vs. the Catholic Maoists / some comparative Sinology / cultivating rivals
Filler: updating, reading, end of May start of June
One world / reading DPRK architecture magazines
Publication day is not a real holiday / The Shaanxi Opera
On the Road in Chinese. A tepid conclusion follows, but these are mostly just descriptive notes.
Taking pictures (more on tourism)
The face of my father - (Lortie-)Yamagami-Kimura through Legendre
Fascist comedy | A very short entry on Japanese right-wing politics
Stupid history stupid counterhistory and the Dalai clique (expanding earlier notes)
Mass tourism is demeaning / [outing myself as a crank] [Tokyo focused personal comments]
Jiang Qing, Nietzschean terror
Bureaucracy lessons from Democratic Kampuchea (the Khmer Rouge/Taliban comparison)
Let's read Cao Zhenglu and lament the demise of the social novel
A Red Guard prayer and an elegy for Osama bin Laden by a disciple of Rancière (2011)