Nontopical banter podcast by post-crisis academics: mostly peripheral, irregular guests, rushed cuts, lukewarm takes. Twitter: @cwgibois
The eight episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, fifty-five minutes of underground insights with Katy Roseland (Basement6, Shanghai Community Radio) and hosts Dino Chang, Gabriele de Seta & Patrick Harrison.
In this episode: Shanghai's creative basements, art spies, community radios and club culture.
Involuntary reverb courtesy of Skype feedback.
LINKS:- Basement6: http://www.basement6collective.com/ - Shanghai Community Radio: https://www.instagram.com/shcr_radio/ - Eduardo Makoszay's "Tomorrow can take care of itself (ft Nick Land)": https://vimeo.com/223902358/bbf68a469d - Official "Map Pointz" project: https://www.instagram.com/map_pointz/
The seventh (but eight really) episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, sixty-eight minutes of spiritual communion with Dr. Paul J. Farrelly (Capital Academic Advisory) and hosts Dino Chang & Gabriele de Seta.
In this episode: Taiwanese campus folk, new age religiosity, spiritual practices, vintage magazine Tumblr.
Occasional ambient hiss added for a more lo-fi summer vibe.
LINKS: - Paul J. Farrelly's website: https://www.pauljfarrelly.com/ - Capital Academic Advisory: https://www.academics.asia/ - Paul's essay on Terry Hu and New Age religion in Taiwan: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-xGNvVh2owzQ0NSVmxaSFZ6U00/view - Paul's "Altered Statuses" Tumblr: https://altered-statuses.tumblr.com/
The sixth episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, seventy-three minutes of gonzo sinology with Gong (Vice China) and hosts Jonathan Burrow, Joshua Cader, Dino Chang & Gabriele de Seta.
In this episode: Vice in China, the post-wall generation, the end of subcultures, Peppa the Pig and Dongbei thug life.
Reverbs and traffic ambience all mixed-in for an optimal multi-sited experience.
LINKS:- S.T.H's article on post-wall Chinese youth: http://www.vice.cn/read/time-for-generation-wall - Vice China documentary on independent comics: http://www.vice.cn/read/comics-infinite-full-version - The "This is a fucking paradise" documentary series: http://www.vice.cn/show/this-is-a-fucking-paradise - Vice China article on Peppa the Pig : http://www.vice.cn/read/peppa-thug-pig-is-lost-control-again
The sixth episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, seventy-three minutes of gonzo sinology with Gong (Vice China) and hosts Jonathan Burrow, Joshua Cader, Dino Chang & Gabriele de Seta.
In this episode: Vice in China, the post-wall generation, the end of subcultures, Peppa the Pig and Dongbei thug life.
Reverbs and traffic ambience all mixed-in for an optimal multi-sited experience.
LINKS:- S.T.H's article on post-wall Chinese youth: http://www.vice.cn/read/time-for-generation-wall - Vice China documentary on independent comics: http://www.vice.cn/read/comics-infinite-full-version - The "This is a fucking paradise" documentary series: http://www.vice.cn/show/this-is-a-fucking-paradise - Vice China article on Peppa the Pig : http://www.vice.cn/read/peppa-thug-pig-is-lost-control-again
The sixth episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, seventy-three minutes of gonzo sinology with Gong (Vice China) and hosts Jonathan Burrow, Joshua Cader, Dino Chang & Gabriele de Seta.
In this episode: Vice in China, the post-wall generation, the end of subcultures, Peppa the Pig and Dongbei thug life.
Reverbs and traffic ambience all mixed-in for an optimal multi-sited experience.
LINKS: - S.T.H's article on post-wall Chinese youth: http://www.vice.cn/read/time-for-generation-wall - Vice China documentary on independent comics: http://www.vice.cn/read/comics-infinite-full-version - The "This is a fucking paradise" documentary series ": http://www.vice.cn/show/this-is-a-fucking-paradise - Vice China article on Peppa the Pig : http://www.vice.cn/read/peppa-thug-pig-is-lost-control-again
The fifth episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, sixty-six minutes of snappy takes on creative writing with John and Tito (Melbourne, Australia) and hosts Jonathan Burrow, Joshua Cader, Dino Chang & Gabriele de Seta.
In this episode: academic exploitation, indifference & repetition, ethnographic spy novels, and the politics of humor.
Pristine production courtesy of an institutional recording studio in a secret location.
LINKS: - Kenneth Goldsmith's "Uncreative Writing": https://www.amazon.co.uk/Uncreative-Writing-Kenneth-Goldsmith - Mark Hobart's writings: http://www.criticalia.org/bibliography---mark-hobart/ - Maurice Bloch's essays: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/essays-on-cultural-transmission-9781845202873/ - The anthropologist as stand-up comedian: http://sciencenordic.com/researcher-who-became-stand-comic
The fourth episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, seventy-five minutes of underground hip-hop ethnography with Pradip Sarkar (Melbourne, Australia) and hosts Joshua Cader, Dino Chang & Gabriele de Seta.
In this episode: Mumbai slum beats, Kolkata cityscapes, local technologies of production, self-exoticizing appropriations and global aspirations.
Uneven audio encoding quality courtesy of Australian broadband and failing batteries.
LINKS: - Mere Gully Mein - DIVINE feat. Naezy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bK5dzwhu-I - Cizzy - Kolkatar Rasta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VJcZ_RukDI - Prabh Deep x Sez On The Beat - 'G' Maane (Explicit): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfTtQypf38M - Feyago ft. Tarak Das Baul - Baul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ugceWGnw_I
The third episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, sixty-four minutes of deep meme phenomenology with Deathnography (Montreal, Canada) and hosts Joshua Cader, Dino Chang, Gabriele de Seta & Patrick Harrison.
In this episode: Facebook meme page backstage gossip, Hong Kong protest field recordings, secret chat group anti-Zuck strikes, post-internet anthropology zingers, and the original formulation of #maplewave.
Vaping gurgles and keyboard taps unavoidable given the recording circumstances.
LINKS: - Deathnography Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/deathnography/ - Quarry Bay's Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/quarrybay - Esoteric Asian Memes: https://www.facebook.com/esotericasianmemes/ - Lettuce Dog's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lettucedogmemes/
The second episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, an hour of free-wheeling takes with Joy Zhu (Hong Kong) and hosts Joshua Cader, Dino Chang & Gabriele de Seta.
In this episode: uninformed opinions on Hong Kong's something-colonial identity, Wan Chin fandom, attempts at triggering Yuk Hui, and a broad sweeps over the city's political spectrum beyond the Umbrella Movement.
Background noises courtesy of recording this thing over a total distance of 24,518 km.
LINKS: - Tommy Cheung's article on Wan Chin: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/AEDS-07-2015-0032 - Laika's take on Hong Kong's exit: https://jacobitemag.com/2017/09/23/colonialism-hong-kong-exit/ - Bruce Gilley's defense of colonialism: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/colonialism-academic-article-bruce-gilley-threats-violence-published-withdrawn-third-world-quarterly-a7996371.html - Yuk Hui on NRx: http://www.e-flux.com/journal/81/125815/on-the-unhappy-consciousness-of-neoreactionaries/
The actual first episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, fifty-something minutes of trans-timezone quipping with Patrick Harrison (UC Berkeley) and hosts Joshua Cader, Dino Chang & Gabriele de Seta.
In this episode: sharing some real good Chinese documentaries, piling hot takes on the Warkgate, being cynical about the China Quarterly fuck-up, and the usual dose of having no clue.
We're getting better at this, except for Josh who thought speakers were better than headphones.
LINKS: - Life After Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GELAclq9CQE - McKenzie Wark on Wang Hui: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3345-wang-hui-on-china-s-twentieth-century - Brian Hioe on McKenzie Wark: http://newbloommag.net/2017/08/23/wark-wang-left-orientalism/ - China Quarterly: http://www.chinoiresie.info/china-foray-into-academia-beyond-borders/
The pilot episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, fifty-something minutes of banter with Joshua Cader (University of Tokyo) and hosts Gabriele de Seta & Dino Chang.
In this episode: self-mocking catch-up on academic failures, weather talk and homelessness, dying social media platforms, baizuo critiques and other unscripted nonsense.
Microphone hum, accidental typing and table noises will be cut down over the next episodes, we promise.
LINKS: - Drugs in Australia: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/everyone-s-high-they-gonna-arrest-everyone-southeast-asian-8752894 - MIXI: https://mixi.jp/ - White left: http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1000477/white-left-the-internet-insult-the-west-has-gotten-wrong