primo levi – if not now, when?
January 31, 2010
reading: g. whitney azoy – buzkashi – game and power in afghanistan
g. whitney azoy – buzkashi
January 21, 2010
reading: christopher i. beckwith – empires of the silk road
christopher i. beckwith – empires of the silk road
January 21, 2010
reading: iranophobia – the logic of an israeli obsession – haggai ram
iranophobia – haggai ram
January 10, 2010
Reading: Feng Jicai – Voices from the Whirlwind
feng jicai – voices from the whirlwind
January 7, 2010
Reading: Katherine Pratt Ewing – Stolen Honor – Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin
katherine pratt ewing – stolen honor
January 5, 2010
i’d dance on your grave but i’ll piss on it instead
It’s not often I’m taken with glee to read of the death of someone. During the years I’ve blogged, many …
December 26, 2009
supernaut wordpress
Six months ago, deliriously annoyed with Movable Type, and deeply envious of all those people using WordPress. I install WP, …
December 22, 2009
solstice
Taoism struggles against the cultural preference for the “light.” The Tao Te Ching, especially, champions the low, the dark. …
November 3, 2009
Reading… a 2nd anniversary
My reading the last year has not been of either the volume, nor the breadth of the previous, in no …
September 30, 2009
hilary
“…and when terror strikes just take a deep breath and remember that life is just one long learning experience. …
August 29, 2009
som faves
Ivo says, ” you know I was very suspicious about its qualities and I will still be…”. Though not in …
July 11, 2009
from ecto 3 to wordpress 2.8
uuhhh…
When I started finding odd stuff in my Movable Type install for supernaut I knew the end was near. I’ve …
July 8, 2009
dasniyasommer.de
Because it’s…
I’m watching WordPress install under the tessellated layers of windows open. I can see command lines march upwards, not …
June 16, 2009
Reading: Alexandra Richie – Faust’s Metropolis – A History of Berlin
alexandra richie – faust’s metropolis
June 1, 2009
Reading: Zhao Ziyang – Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang
zhao ziyang – prisoner of the state
May 27, 2009
im keller, 6ter stock… später in der buchhandlung und auch gewitterhagelsturm
A strange adventure with Daniel accompanying me and Matti translating on occasion. Kreuzberg near my old home, Dieffenbachstr, time too …
May 27, 2009
Reading: Barry Cunliffe – Europe Between the Oceans 9000 BC – AD 1000
europe between the oceans – barry cunliffe
May 10, 2009
daniel is reading…
judith butler – undoing gender
susan sontag – styles of radical will
deleuze and guattari – a thousand plateaus
…
April 23, 2009
berlin frühlingszeit vielfalten
Someone said, “Oh your photos are very good, you must have a DSLR, no?” No. My camera three years ago …
April 18, 2009
ick bin fünf jahre alt (und ein wenig mehr)
mmm… ja, so… leider, ich habe nochmal vergaß.
Meine erste Blog Geburtstag in Berlin! Det find’ ick schau. Das war vor …
April 12, 2009
a book is living
My sofa has a variously shaded crocheted lilac blanket I like to lie on, or curl up under, wrap around …
April 12, 2009
reading: jorge luis borges – collected fictions
jorge luis borges – collected fictions
April 6, 2009
blog stuff
I shouldn’t be on my laptop today; I am bad. Working around 12 and sometimes up to 16 hours a …
February 16, 2009
cookie monster
I don’t like cookies so much. The persistent browser types, with expiry dates of 2031 that cause a trail of …
February 7, 2009
biblio-smut
When I have my pirate castle I shall also have a library like this. I’m not sure which, maybe all …
January 19, 2009
Things…
I started talking about Things by saying,
For a very long time my way of organising bits and pieces was, for …
January 18, 2009
Annemarie Schwarzenbach
And so I discovered Annamarie Schwarzenbach, who to a certain kind of Berlinerin is probably quite famous, yet in English …
January 18, 2009
mailtags & …
For a very long time my way of organising bits and pieces was, for short things in a hurry creating …
December 15, 2008
it degrades rather gracefully…
I noticed recently it’s been almost two years since I did this site design. That I’m not so bored with …
November 30, 2008
reading: wildwood – a journey through trees – roger deakin
wildwood – a journey through trees – roger deakin
November 28, 2008
reading: jeanette winterson – lighthousekeeping
jeanette winterson – lighthousekeeping
November 12, 2008
landwehrkanal
Along the Landwehrkanal on my bicycle going west, some blue sky and sun today, though cold. I kept riding till …
November 10, 2008
finishing
This week I made a decision I’ve been thinking about on and off for years, and always delayed because somehow …
October 29, 2008
mehlwurm
In the opposite direction to my original intent, Alex Platz, down Alte Jacobstr, often an unmemorable street, at one intersection …
October 25, 2008
ich habe deutsche gelernt… ein bisschen
Oh it’s finished. A month of learning German five hours a day, grammar grammar grammar… my brain hurt from all …
October 16, 2008
Reading… an anniversary
A year ago in the briefest of lines, I began keeping a list of the books I’ve digested… burp.
What remains, …
October 14, 2008
reading: iain m banks – feersum endjinn (5th time), the algebraist (2nd time)
iain m banks – the algebraist
iain m banks – feersum endjinn
October 12, 2008
Reading: Walter Benjamin – Berlin Childhood around 1900
The last few days I have enjoyed the rather delectable company of a hobo formerly from Berlin, now residing in …
October 2, 2008
twitter.com/francesdath
Somehow after all this time, being slow to adopt new things, I decided to get on twitter, mainly so I …
September 30, 2008
where i am…
Oh a long pause… oops… not from lack of things to say, just fallen out of the habit. So, for …
September 18, 2008
englisch buchhandlungen aus berlin
(I was waiting until I’d visited a few more bookshops, but I’ve been distracted with writing applications, and know it …
September 7, 2008
reading: books from zürich…
Lacking new reading, and I am suffering, I have been opening my suitcase of books from my life in Zürich …
August 29, 2008
revalerstr 99
This week a haze has descended on me, it is easier to stay in bed safe in the folds of …
August 16, 2008
chuang tzu again…
About a week ago, a quote from Chuang Tzu turned up on The Useless Tree (another shortly after explaining just …
August 12, 2008
reading: leslie feinburg – stone butch blues
Yes, I finally bought it, on a trip to Prinz Eisenherz, oh such a joy to find this, and then …
August 1, 2008
books… forgotten… found
I left many things when I departed from Zürich. And Guangzhou, and Taipei, and… Things come together again. All my …
July 30, 2008
von wien westbahnhof nach zürich hbf
Some books I read small pieces of in my room in Vienna. Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others, a …
July 26, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 10)
I’ve been meaning to say something about my apartment, I mean to say, where I’m staying. The woman who let …
July 24, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 8)
Wherein I discover that ImPulsTanz knows about my blogging of settlement and having revealed as such in their newsletter, I …
July 17, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 3)
Today I ate dates and fresh peaches for lunch. And a banana. And had dinner at Der Wiener Deewan, mmm …
June 28, 2008
monadologie – cosmos magazine
The bubble-quote of my traipsing through a park in Sydney, the endless, vertiginous blackness crisp with infinitesimal points, and there …
June 27, 2008
Global Voices Summit – Budapest
Some of my favourite and also most inspiring bloggers, writers, wonderful computer and internet people are all in Budapest for …
June 21, 2008
saint uncle judith… jude… i mean judy
I’m not sure of the trail that led me to spending some of an afternoon reading interviews with Judith Butler, …
June 12, 2008
chingiz aitmatov
I only recently discovered him, and was looking forward to reading The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, when …
June 8, 2008
Reading: again… some for the fifth time…
Suffering from a paucity of new books the last two weeks, and packing mine all away in preparation for inevitable …
June 8, 2008
blog…
A notably slow Sunday, cleaning, washing dishes, reading The Subject of Gender that I am already certain will be on …
June 6, 2008
Reading: Harriet Evans – The Subject of Gender: Daughters and Mothers in Urban China
harriet evans – the subject of gender
June 5, 2008
Reading: Julian Burnside – Watching Brief: Reflections on Human Rights, Law and Justice
julian burnside – watching brief
May 14, 2008
Reading: Liao Yiwu – The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up
Normally I say nothing about the books I’m reading, I have a superstition that to do so would cause me …
May 14, 2008
Reading: Antonio Giustozzi – Koran, Kalashnikov and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan 2002-2007
koran, kalashnikov and laptop
April 29, 2008
生日快乐!!! happy 4rd birthday supernaut
Oops … 我忘了… I forgot…
My blog’s 4th birthday was almost three weeks ago on the 7th of April.
I am …
April 20, 2008
Reading: Sidney Perkowitz – Universal Foam: The Story of Bubbles from Cappuccino to the Cosmos
sydney perkowitz – universal foam
April 19, 2008
pestilence day 13
Friday, rehearsal 13, night and darkness. Daniel and I seem to work rather well when the building creaks and groans, …
April 17, 2008
pestilence day 12
Inadvertently, Daniel and i have spent all of this week working on the one scene that came from Kristeva’s abjection, …
March 22, 2008
reading: business cards – the art of saying hello
business cards – the art of saying hello
March 21, 2008
Reading: Daniel Ladinski Trans. – The Gift: Poems by Hafiz, The Great Sufi Master
hafiz – the gift. trans. daniel ladinsky
March 21, 2008
Reading: Michel Foucault – Madness and Civilisation
michel foucault – madness and civilisation
March 15, 2008
… return
I was up till quite late last night methodically going through installing all of my add-ons, plugins, bits and pieces …
March 6, 2008
Reading: Taliban – Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia – Ahmed Rashid
taliban – ahmed rashid
February 25, 2008
Reading: Susan Mann – The Talented Women of the Zhang Family
susan mann – the talented women of the zhang family
February 25, 2008
Reading: Rosanne Klass – Land of the High Flags: Afghanistan When the Going Was Good
rosanne klass – land of the high flags
February 17, 2008
monadologie day 37 & 38 & 39
This is the running order of the work. Or … it describes certain possibilities that if I’m clever enough could …
February 17, 2008
Reading: Anne Fausto-Sterling – Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
anne fausto-sterling- sexing the body
February 12, 2008
sorry
“Today we honour the Indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest continuing cultures in human history.
We reflect on their past …
February 12, 2008
monadologie – self-referentiality
Just because I’ve continually forgotten to do this…
I’m blogging the entire project and residency at Science is the New Black …
February 5, 2008
waiting at the train station
Half a million people stuck in the Guangzhou Train Station, over 100 trains carrying thousands of people each stranded in …
February 4, 2008
新年快乐！﹣hoping the rats are warm on the trains
This is not Guangzhou Train Station. This is Huanshi Xi Lu, quite far in front of the station. News from …
February 1, 2008
reading: william gibson & bruce sterling – the difference engine
william gibson + bruce sterling – the difference engine
January 30, 2008
monadologie day 27
Just me alone … and Sunn 0))) … unjoy.
I wasn’t sure how useful me being in a studio on my …
January 27, 2008
more feeds and things … and blogrolls
A little bit preoccupied today and doing busywork (yes, is a word), and somehow stumbled upon several rather cool blogs …
January 26, 2008
Reading: Charles Stross – The Atrocity Archives
charles stross – the atrocity archives
January 13, 2008
reading: julia serano – whipping girl – a transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity
julia serano – whipping girl
January 13, 2008
reading: lois may – transgenders and intersexuals – everything you ever wanted to know but couldn’t think of the question
lois may – transgenders and intersexuals
January 10, 2008
feeds and things …
Every so often someone asks, “How do you read so much stuff every day?” and rather than shatter their illusions …
January 3, 2008
to move freely
Approaching a return to Melbourne, back to airports on Saturday and to … see if I can make sense of …
December 31, 2007
Reading: Jin Xing – Shanghai Tango (A Memoir)
jin xing – shanghai tango (a memoir)
December 14, 2007
when i decompiled the source code of my feed reader it said, satan satan satan!!!
Obviously, I thought it was funny…
(Later on I felt a sense of dread…)
666 satanic feed reader
December 9, 2007
Reading: Norman Page – Auden and Isherwood – The Berlin Years
norman page – auden and isherwood – the berlin years
November 18, 2007
november 20
This Tuesday is International Day of Transgender Remembrance. I should be dwelling on Happy Things today but it’s been a …
November 17, 2007
reading: terry pratchett…
terry pratchett – mort
terry pratchett – the colour of magic
terry pratchett – equal rites
terry pratchett – …
October 29, 2007
reading: kerstin finger – tape: an excursion through the world of adhesive tapes
tape: an excursion through the world of adhesive tapes
October 16, 2007
reading … ?
I used to keep a list of all the books I read, and thought maybe I should do that again …
October 11, 2007
1010011010 the number of the beast
Having realised I could count up to 1024, in binary no less, using just my fingers and thumbs, it’s surprising …
October 6, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 15 & 16 & this week
Libby said, “You’re panicking. Deal with it”. I said, “Oh I need to write that down”, it would go well …
September 26, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 13
So after last rehearsal, I was variously meant to watch all the video on Friday, but too busy with Melbourne …
September 20, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 11 & 12
It was Throbbing Gristle. Though I need to go into town and try and find a record shop in this …
September 9, 2007
all about jin xing
Whenever I’d be hanging out with some group of artists or dancers, sitting around the remnants of dinner and drinking …
September 7, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 8
I couldn’t really justify rape fantasies or liking being strangled through Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble, and I did do an …
September 2, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 7
After my opening up during the last rehearsal, today’s three-hour endurance spectacle, resting on many pages of preparatory notes and …
August 30, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 6
Talking talking talking. I was really not so prepared for this rehearsal, but it turned into a bit of a …
August 23, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 4
A visit to the giant porn supermarket next to ACarts yesterday, to search for any book I could find on …
August 16, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 3
Yesterday was long, at times something to be endured, frightening when it came to rehearsing and going to places of …
August 14, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 2
Second rehearsal is sometimes like second night blues when you’re performing, despite spending much of the weekend preparing, reading Judith …
August 9, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 1
Late afternoon into twilight, playing in the dark our first rehearsal, Paea, Xuan, Tara and Daniel together in one small …
August 8, 2007
danceminute
I used to be fairly prompt in getting enthusiastic here about new blogs, adding them to the spiraling list to …
August 8, 2007
ignition – all the people i can remember sleeping with …
A morning back at ADT, really for the first time in about a month, and I forgot how astounding they …
July 10, 2007
flyhatched
It was only three years ago but seems … one of those entanglings with a person that are outside of …
July 3, 2007
Housewives on Fire
A conversation before the show: girl-a, “wanna sit in the front row?”, girl-b, “nah I don’t wanna be that close …
June 26, 2007
i want more life, fucker!
Bladerunner is about the most influential film for me, I’ve seen in more times than I can recall, usually once …
June 19, 2007
冯三七 canton disaster relief blogging
John is responsible for much of my email. He only knows this now. But I read it all, after-all, I …
May 30, 2007
stir-fried poultry
I had some time spare yesterday amidst the stream of meetings and appointments, so went on a hot date with …
May 6, 2007
tense dave
Over the past couple of days I’ve been thinking and talking quite a bit about Chunky Move’s Tense Dave, a …
April 29, 2007
it returns to wilderness
Letter-hyphen-town has been what most cities I’ve lived in have been reduced to since Emile in Zürich shortened it to …
April 25, 2007
adelaide again again
The last week or so I’ve been a bit distracted by what was an unexpected and very timely offer to …
April 23, 2007
new photography in guangzhou
All month I’ve been meaning to blog this, but attack of laziness and other things to keep me occupied meant …
April 7, 2007
生日快乐!!! happy 3rd birthday supernaut
Waah! Three years of blogging. How did that happen? Funny it seems more of something to celebrate than my human …
April 6, 2007
friday atheist re-blogging
Being the day when a carpenter who has fantastically scant evidence for ever having existed in the first place was …
April 3, 2007
blog holiday
I’m taking a short holiday from blogging. I’ve been writing almost constantly for the last couple of weeks, and most …
April 1, 2007
sunday morning avoiding-work blogging
More stuff I’ve read in the past two weeks for your amazement and occasional pleasure, though because everyone’s taste is …
March 28, 2007
Protected: pain, tranny crap and the insipid miasma of self-indulgence
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
March 27, 2007
poor excuse for absence of blog
Most of this week will involve occasionally staring at the housing commission flats a couple of streets north of here. …
March 24, 2007
grace
I feel old when I try to remember how many years ago it was I saw piglet in the garage …
March 22, 2007
three new categories
Finally I have added some new categories that have been eating at me like some rapacious tropical parasite. It a …
March 22, 2007
becky, jodi and john
Not that I’ve seen much dance this year but come December, this will still be one of the highlights of …
March 21, 2007
anna in space
My darling Anna, whom I first met at DanceWEB in Vienna 2003 and spent a few weeks post-inferno enjoying the …
March 18, 2007
the end of dance writing
Around the time I was thinking about i want your dance, I stumbled across this excellent article on ImPulsTanz by …
March 15, 2007
i want your dance
Last year Bare Bones came to Melbourne to work with Roz Warby. What was intriguing for me was not the …
March 11, 2007
lazy sunday cooking eating blogging …
A late night swirling Pernod with Bonnie at Orange and an early trip to the shops for Sunday fruit, now …
March 8, 2007
1111101000
Twenty posts ago was my 1000th post. Celebration. Unfortunately the absinthe was only chocolate and the cheap sex was a …
March 8, 2007
… and death
Emile sent me possibly the most perfect condolences card after I told him about Jean Baudrillard dying yesterday. It made …
March 7, 2007
jean baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard died.
I’m so utterly devastated. He has been the single most important thinker, writer, philosopher for me, in my …
March 3, 2007
saturday morning re-blogging
Last night was a rather interesting experience for me that I’m not going to blog about, but certainly has much …
February 26, 2007
when in doubt … cliché and generalise
Two almost opposite examinations of art or culture came from Ou Ning’s blog today, the first a textless photographic documentary, …
February 24, 2007
it’s all about 冯三七 … i mean feng37 … i mean john
A couple of weeks ago, John Kennedy – also known as contemporary Chinese poetry translator Feng37 – thought that …
February 24, 2007
Protected: saturday tranny blogging
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
February 11, 2007
1000
A while ago I taught myself to count to 1023 using only ten fingers, in binary. I thought that was …
February 11, 2007
the meaning of everything
So far in 2007, I’ve started well over a score of books, and finished no more than a handful, well …
February 10, 2007
Protected: revenge of the lezzie shemale feminists
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
February 4, 2007
waah! pain! eye sting lah!
I’m in what I fondly refer to as grant-writing hell. Somehow out of desperation I’m in the middle of six …
February 1, 2007
Protected: god made you a boy
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
January 31, 2007
supernaut #3 bug list
A couple of days ago, someone asked me why the search function wasn’t working here. The answer is Spam.
Dreamhost emailed …
January 28, 2007
what calliope did…
There is a stack of books next to my bed in Adelaide, mostly instilling disappointment in the novel as a …
January 21, 2007
the symbolism of cultural rape
Even though it came out a while ago, and I read it by accident when flipping through the pages of …
January 20, 2007
just dance the shit out of it
It’s something of a renaissance of dance recently, with the quite brilliant So You Think You Can Dance on Sundays, …
January 8, 2007
Protected: miscellaneous tranny stuff … coz we rule
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
January 3, 2007
supernaut #3 blinks in the numinous light
Having spent the last few days playing around with a new design, I thought I’d preview it now.
supernaut … i …
January 1, 2007
I also wanted to include mermaids and shipwrecks …
Continuing my current science bender, a piece of reblogging from Barista on Marie Tharp, Cartographer, scientist, one of those people …
December 30, 2006
supernaut … i whore for art #3
I haven’t been blogging lately because I feel rather awkward with littering the internet with my private life, and I …
December 21, 2006
techno…blah…ti, or the meaninglessness of social networks
A while ago, I ditched a slew of social networking vampires that had ceased to have any relevance to me. …
December 12, 2006
iranian typography now
Japan design magazine PingMag has a long feature yesterday, Iranian Typography Now. It is one of the most sublime features …
December 10, 2006
stuff i read and even bookmarked in the last week
Bookmarked, that is, so I could blah on loudly here about it, in lieu of dragging myself through the warm …
December 2, 2006
some stuff i read this week
Lazy Saturday afternoon post-dragging myself out of bed and thinking of going climbing pretty soon, but first a random trawl …
November 22, 2006
blaargh …
I’ve been sick the last couple of days. I swear this city is trying to kill me, I mean I …
November 6, 2006
sisyphus was here
Far too many of these excuses for not blogging in the last couple of months, and here’s another one, as …
October 30, 2006
some new blogs
About a week ago I was doing something and ended up splurting “contemporary dance” Melbourne into Google Blog Search. I …
October 28, 2006
new categories of choreography
I’ve been scratching around this evening making some new categories for here. The original and still intended idea is to …
October 21, 2006
what i’ve been reading today
Another list of completely unrelated stuff that circulated through my news feeds in the last couple of days and makes …
October 21, 2006
faith is a corrosive virus
A couple of days ago I was reading an article in which the manifestations of – especially fundamentalist – religion …
October 20, 2006
yes i feel shame
I know you come here and every day I let you down, like a poor lover who just can’t stop …
October 5, 2006
europe central
In another country, long enough ago to be only someone else’s life, I remember a summer entranced in my small …
October 3, 2006
we are no longer human
I really, really urge you all to read this article that appeared in Rolling Stone, The Unending Torture of Omar …
October 1, 2006
stuff i read today
Having dragged myself out of bed at the rather late hour of 1030 and still working my way through a …
September 29, 2006
torture is evil unless we’re doing it
It was a unique moment today, killing time between rehearsals and reading the latest issue of Dance Australia while dozing …
September 26, 2006
they are not my dreams
After coughing myself into sleep deprivation over the previous couple of weeks, it was a blessing when dreams returned last …
September 25, 2006
长沙刁民 changsha rogue
One of my favourite means of getting around Guangzhou since I first got over my terror of speeding death under …
September 22, 2006
i don’t want excuses i want blog
I’m in Adelaide at the moment for something I’ll write about more soon. One of myriad things I don’t have …
September 7, 2006
insanity…
These four days until Sunday night I have pretty much no time to do important stuff like eat chocolate and …
September 6, 2006
temperance – a stranger knocks at his door; fang decides to kill him
When I was using Life Forms as my main tool for choreography, one of the best things about it was …
September 2, 2006
what i read today
For a while I kept a del.ic.ious account (last updated almost two months ago). I also used to have one …
August 16, 2006
savage formosa
National Geographic is one of those magazines like good chocolate I get breathless over when each new issue arrives in …
August 6, 2006
less art more self-indulgence
It was about a year and a half ago when I considered the probability of an endless stretch of boringness …
August 5, 2006
helinski bike courier porn
Ok, so I’m reblogging, get over it. Anyway it’s about Helsinki, the city I almost went to last year for …
August 2, 2006
slacker
I’m really going to blame my lack of blogging on inadvertently slipping through Guangzhou airport and finding myself in Melbourne. …
July 30, 2006
3030 new photography in china
A new book of contemporary art photographers from China:
3030: New Photography in China
This fully illustrated survey of 30 of China’s …
July 28, 2006
创意广州十三行 creative canton
It was slightly unnerving, to be lying there above the swollen and turbulent Pearl River, undercutting the empty, but for …
July 14, 2006
eeeee!!!!! charles stross in melbourne
I’m still waiting to buy Charles Stross’ latest novel, and to fill the interim bought one of Neal Stephenson’s first …
July 9, 2006
charles stross – glasshouse
Before I lost most of this year to reading Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle, which I am currently re-reading for various …
June 23, 2006
dreamhost kills supernaut
DreamHost, who have been hosting my websites this year, had a major problem with their DNS servers. The practical result …
June 21, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – Apocalypse 1626.666
Besides spelling mistakes and irregular comprehension of names, the DVD of 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD is nearly finished, in fact tomorrow …
June 15, 2006
the world is a poorer place
Sometimes I feel as if everyone who made the world brilliant, whose lives and works simply took humanity to new …
May 31, 2006
going on holiday
I’m going on holiday. For more than a week, maybe even two weeks… One place I’ve always wanted to visit, …
May 28, 2006
云浮, 汕尾, 太石 and other holiday places
Periodically, I write about stuff in China that has little at first glance to do with making dance and art. …
May 27, 2006
Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
Outside of my normal flippant abrogation of its meaning, there are not too many people for whom I genuinely reserve …
May 27, 2006
famous in haizhu
Following on from the attention 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD got in 周末画报 Modern Weekly, I spent the afternoon in Haizhu Park …
May 26, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – more of the same…
Still more stuff is turning up in the post-show blur across the internet. On the night of the dress rehearsal, …
April 28, 2006
pretty good privacy
I thoroughly recommend reading this article on PGP, the introduction to PGP & GPG: Email for the Practical Paranoid, then …
April 28, 2006
still lazy (but reading like a concubine at an orgy)
I just can’t seem to get focussed on blogging at the moment, I think because my schedule is a little …
April 19, 2006
dance.psd – corporeal archives
A couple of things from the world of dance that isn’t performed. One is an essay from The Chronicle Review, …
April 8, 2006
a couple of anniversaries i forgot…
I’m really not one for anniversaries, and have even forgotten my birthday a couple of times, but feeling the need …
March 26, 2006
my name is mud … JT LeRoy assassinated
Having exchanged vituperative asseveration for untrammelled glee in participating in the on-going carnival that marks the return-of-the-real and death-to-betrayal-of-authenticity that …
March 24, 2006
the laziest site ever coded
My original and very first website, zeroballet has been hanging around since early 2002. Kinda embarrassing. It’s very complicated layers …
March 23, 2006
more blogs for compulsive clickers
Obviously I collect blogs the way philatelists collect small rectangles of perforated paper, and one day a mint-condition first-edition of …
March 17, 2006
eeeeeee!!! blog!!!!
I was going to write a whole bunch of stuff about a whole pile of stuff, lots of exciting Guangzhou …
March 5, 2006
japanese font orgasm
More than lines of code in Flash, or beautiful CSS and all that elegant and hidden stuff that makes web …
February 26, 2006
linking to stuff – an ode to blogrolls
Since I started using NetNewsWire to read all my blogs, I’ve been adding feeds at the rate of a few …
February 24, 2006
reading some books
Today was a minor holiday after my 15 hour binge yesterday in DVD Studio Pro and the joy of sorting …
February 18, 2006
destination prd
In my daily ploughing through a couple of hundred RSS feeds, I read from Danwei, there’s a new quarterly magazine …
February 16, 2006
ma jian – stick your tongue out
In Taiwan a year ago, thanks to the vast library at the Taipei Artist Village I got seriously into reading …
January 24, 2006
everything you always wanted to know about hell …
… but were afraid to ask Jean Baudrillard.
One of my enduringly favourite books, that I have somehow permanently connected as …
January 9, 2006
JT LeRoy – keeping it fake
Part of me likes the great simulacrum of the media endlessly recreating its own reality until it is all simultaneously …
January 5, 2006
puk gai and other cantonese words of love
What I really like when speaking Cantonese is how it makes me sound like a slutty canto-porn star about to …
January 3, 2006
hacking matter
One of my highlights from 2005, and amongst my greatest enduring pleasures was a voracious consuming of a tower of …
December 30, 2005
nine lives – the birth of avante-garde in new china
SCALO Books have just published Beijing resident Karen Smith’s Nine Lives – The Birth of Avante-Garde in New China, and …
December 12, 2005
chinese mediaculture
One of the works at the 第二届广州三年展 2nd Guangzhou Triennial, the Beijing Boom Tower, has come back to me in …
December 10, 2005
a quarter of a billion
I’m taking a bit of a break from blogging, the return to Australia has left me with a disembodied sense …
December 5, 2005
categories and stuff
I’ve changed some of the names of the categories to make them a little more representative of what gets assigned …
December 5, 2005
don’t bomb us – al jazeera goes blog
Somehow, I think through one of the feeds I subscribe to, I stumbled upon what is one of the best …
December 4, 2005
translate this: 行愿
I was at the 广州美术学院 and spent the afternoon with 林若熹 a professor at the Academy who is preparing a …
November 15, 2005
flog p-blog phlog
To further my uselessness and add to the hurricane of zero-content bandwidth, and also in a shameless attempt to emulate …
November 11, 2005
China Digital Times 中国数字时代 rsf blog nomination
Two blogs from or on China have been nominated for the Reporters Sans Frontières in a field of eight (which …
November 7, 2005
chinese blogger conference 2005
The 中文网志年会 Chinese Blogger Conference 2005 has been going on in Shanghai for the last couple of days. Rebecca McKinnon …
November 6, 2005
more stuff i’ve been reading
I’ve been really enjoying reading from blogs lately, obviously from my daily reading list, (which has since grown longer) even …
November 2, 2005
daily blog reading
I went through my blog bookmarks a couple of days ago, which now number several folders with 15 or more …
October 31, 2005
dongxi wants stuff
I got an email a couple of days ago from the editors of the about to be published dongxi magazine. …
October 31, 2005
cornhoolio … mit brot
Cornelia is blogging. I’m in trouble… all flog … all the time …
debbie – mercy45
October 26, 2005
when jurisprudence lags behind reality
It’s a really nice idea that a post-operative transsexual can change their gender on their birth certificate and every other …
October 26, 2005
男色主题 all man all the time
More softcore fag porn from China, this time 男色主题 manse magazine, which more-or-less means “colour of man”, which sounds very …
October 26, 2005
some more stuff i’ve been reading
Serious pruning of my temporary bookmarks folder(s) is needed. The stuff on 太石村 Tai Shi Village is already out of …
October 14, 2005
mercy 45 – costume party
We got the costumes yesterday, Christa de Carouge long black dresses which show off plenty of everything, especially when stray …
October 13, 2005
four years of email mayhem
Almost a year ago, when I was in Taiwan, I put out a call for submissions for a 3G mobile …
October 13, 2005
body presentations
The Goethe-Institut’s mailing list has an excellent article on the state of dance and performance in Germany, looking at a …
October 12, 2005
mercy 45 – denise lampart compagnie
It’s all on next week, Mercy 45, the new performance by Denise Lampart Compagnie.
Stücktitel: Mercy 45
Aufführungsdaten: Premiere: Mittwoch, 19. Okt. …
October 12, 2005
slow boat to psychedelia
Writing abusive diatribes against a certain cretinous moron from a respectable Zürich newspaper who has built a reputation on vandalising …
October 2, 2005
intellectual property for the people
I’ve been reading about two books a week, and have amassed a large-ish pile during my time in Zürich. I’ve …
September 30, 2005
all encoding all the time
My PowerBook is currently chewing through 40 gigs of video, encoding and turning it into something that will one day …
September 25, 2005
a bunch of stuff i’ve been reading
Rehearsals are making it a bit difficult for me to focus here, so instead of wading through what has become …
September 10, 2005
my life as anne sexton
Not a word said so far on life in Zürich, rehearsals with Cie. Denise Lampart, endless days in Tanzhaus, or …
September 2, 2005
KJ #64: Special Issue on Gender in Asia
Kyoto Journal is seeking submissions for KJ#64 Gender in Asia, guest edited by contributing editor Sally McLaren. More information on …
August 31, 2005
3108 blog day 2005
Well, I didn’t even know about it… so much for being bleeding-bloody-edge and stuff. Well it’s because some blogger in …
August 19, 2005
slim pickings at supernaut
Yeah, I know four days of posting in half a month constitutes a new zenith in blogging atrophy for me. …
August 6, 2005
Down and Out in China
Richard thought I’d like it. I was filling one of his spare rooms in Panyu with the detritus of five …
July 29, 2005
ImPulsTanz – la vie viennoise
SiWiC may be over except in our sentimental imaginations, but DanceWEB and ImPulsTanz (gotta love this central European blizzard of …
July 27, 2005
siwic – provokant und ausdrucksstark
For the media whores who like to see their own name in the press again and again and again, or …
July 20, 2005
siwic – are we famous yet?
There were some people with cameras and others asking questions and taking notes who weren’t considering charging us with several …
June 15, 2005
Bangkok Tattoo
The first book of John Burdett I read was a very halucinogenic Bangkok 8, which fits neatly into the category …
June 15, 2005
April Ashley – Transsexuals have more fun
The Sydney Morning Herald, about the closest thing Australia gets to a newspaper, but still mostly a gossip rag had …
June 8, 2005
spooked
mmm … full bleed colour …
“Spooked – Art and Horror in the Western Australian landscape” documents the three ‘Spooked’ …
June 8, 2005
Nadine down the rabbit hole
Dominico used to keep the kitchen at DanceWEB happy by rolling fat blunts and cooking long into the night while …
May 28, 2005
mao the destroyer
There is always something despicable about tourists who collect Mao memorabilia or wear Great Helmsman badges. For me it is …
May 25, 2005
babes in beijing
In 1989, Rachel DeWoskin arrived in Beijing fresh from university to work for an American P.R. firm. Two months later …
April 29, 2005
supernaut – ecto’s blog of the week
Adriaan, the maker of the best blogging client ecto, has slapped up supernaut as the ecto powered blog of the …
April 16, 2005
no longer a line split through time
I’m going to have to rave about how good China Miéville is. Not only is he fantastically good looking in …
April 12, 2005
shashwati talukdar
The guy who makes the amazing ecto, which gives me blogging pleasure on a daily basis started a ‘blog of …
April 10, 2005
perdido street station
I’ve just got my laptop back, with a new 80 gig fast drive replacing the slow, small very worn-out old …
April 5, 2005
China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy in Asia
The Asian Review of Books review James Lilley’s swashbuckling tale of intrigue, parachuting spies into communist Manchuria, and hanging out …
April 2, 2005
the age of the grotesque
Another day of reading magazines at The Wall in East St Kilda, and one of the best images of the …
February 20, 2005
thinking in four dimensions
Professor Shirley Mckechnie one of the centres of the Melbourne and Australia dance scene, along with Robin Groves and Catherine …
February 13, 2005
gangstalean and beijing bookworm
So I go away for a couple of weeks, and look at all these new websites. Bloody hell, I’m glad …
February 8, 2005
56k narrowband
Posting will resume on Friday when I get back to Taipei and broadband heaven. Lots of art and climbing stories …
January 28, 2005
cut-up #6
cut-up the art of living in a medialised landscape issue number 6 is online now. For those of you who …
January 28, 2005
more chinese sci-fi
Two new Chinese science-fiction magazines have appeared on the market in China. As all the names have ‘fantasy’ and ’science …
January 25, 2005
bush’s inauguration, america celebrates
I don’t usually write about American politics, but this is an exception, from a post on one of the boards …
January 17, 2005
赵紫阳 zhao ziyang dies
(From China Digital News)
Zhao Ziyang, under house arrest in China since 1989, has now passed away.
His daughter says: “He is …
January 17, 2005
down at the ‘raps
Anyone who knows a climber in Australia has heard of Mt Arapiles, and pretty much every climber in the world …
January 16, 2005
technorati tags and blog aggregators
(Geek warning, coding follows) T-Salon had a post on Technorati and their new blog aggregators, which are based around tags …
January 15, 2005
a new world
Huygens probe safely touched down on Titan today. These are the first pictures back from the surface of the moon …
January 15, 2005
stop beating the animals
$ sinobling $ returns from the zoo, and doesn’t have much good to say. The attitudes of so many Chinese …
January 9, 2005
化境神似 from zhwj
I can’t remember what I was reading which had the link to this, but after being stunned by In the …
January 9, 2005
the little company that could
Just before I left Guangzhou, the 广东实验现代舞团 Guangdong Modern Dance Company and Symphony Orchestra were rehearsing in preparation of their …
January 8, 2005
asian blog awards
The results are in for the 2004 Asian Blog Awards. Go over and check it out, and see some new …
January 8, 2005
show/hide
I spent about all of five seconds last night adding scriptygoddess show/hide extended field piece of code. I’ve been a …
January 5, 2005
vote for meee!!! … again …
The party at Simon World for the 2004 Asian Blog Awards has barely finished and the results are still being …
January 4, 2005
in the footsteps of joseph rock
There are a whole pageload of new blogs over at sinosplice china blog list, but only in only one is …
December 30, 2004
vote for me!!!
This is your last chance to vote for me in the Asian Blog Awards, so go on do something worthwhile …
December 29, 2004
goodbye susan
Susan Sontag died yesterday. The New York Times has a long obituary to one of the greatest writers of the …
December 24, 2004
that’s OC
I love a good West Coast badly-acted 30-nothing playing emotional-car-crash teenagers in expensive lifestyles, like The OC. The That’s Magazine …
December 24, 2004
that’s gets shut down
Here a couple of days ago and gone today. That’s Magazines – Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai were a lifesaver when …
December 16, 2004
asian blog awards
It’s time to vote over at Simon World for the best blog from pretty much every country from Pakistan to …
December 15, 2004
大山子艺术区 on wiki
Factory 798 in Beijing was the site of the Dashanzi International Art Festival earlier this year, and is one of …
December 12, 2004
what i read this week
It’s a smorgasboard of words this week. fro Li Bai all the way up to street slang, don’t ya just …
December 7, 2004
1337 $p33|< in china
TMD，７４５６，偶恨不得一脚TST? 1337 $p33|< the language of 12 year old script kiddies the world over has made it to the …
November 28, 2004
what i read this week
Just in case I ever need to recall what I read this week that didn’t have anything to do with …
November 18, 2004
beijing artists channel throbbing gristle
An opinion piece on the current state of avant-garde art in Beijing brought to mind a conversation I’d had in …
October 11, 2004
extermination review in realtime
Jonathan Marshall has reviewed extermination along with Phillip Adams’ and Becky Hilton’s Fiction and Non-Fiction in the October edition of …
October 10, 2004
jacques is dead
Jacques Derrida is dead.
I met him in 1997, when I was at VCA and Elizabeth Presa had organised the …
October 3, 2004
中国农民调查 An Investigation of China’s Peasantry
The authors of the book 中国农民调查 An Investigation of China’s Peasantry on the appalling lives and working conditions of China’s …
September 29, 2004
lazy man in china
Tonight at the Asialink Centre, former Beijing Correspondent Helen Cheung’s book Lazy Man in China, is being launched Based on …
September 23, 2004
one a day
From Danwei, the home of fine Chinese newspaper covers, comes the antidote to low-IQ, automated content of flaccid fengshui and …
September 9, 2004
prostitution in china
Andrés Gentry has written one of the most in-depth and compassionate pieces on prostitution in China I have ever read. …
September 7, 2004
hurricane frances and storms in sichuan
It’s really cool to have a hurricane with your name on it, even if it has been ‘down-graded’ to a …
August 31, 2004
北京娃娃 Beijing Doll
Early this year, Asian Times wrote a long article on lingei, the Chinese equivalent of Gen-X. Chun Shu, the author …
August 27, 2004
the great blogger survey
The fibreculture mailing list for all things net-art and computery had a request from Mathieu O’Neil who is currently Visiting …
August 22, 2004
chinese sci-fi and fantasy
zhwj 中国幻想文学基地 is the one-stop shop for anything to do with Science-Fiction (科幻 kehuan) and Fantasy (奇幻 qihuan) coming …
August 22, 2004
first posts
Single Planet celebrates one year in Blogistan with a post on the first posts of many of the Chinese blog …
August 3, 2004
southern metropolis daily
What happened in Guangzhou when a graphic design student got arrested by the police for not having a temporary residence …
July 24, 2004
chinese sci-fi and fantasy
Having just ripped through all of Iain M. Bank’s Culture books, and run out of stuff to read, I’ve been …
July 19, 2004
qian fuchang and the text-message novel
The BBC News and every second news media are reporting about Chinese author Qian Fuchang, who has written a novel …
July 19, 2004
the heart is deceitful above all things
JT Leroy I started reading in Toronto early last year, somewhere between William Burroughs early novels, the bleakness of James …
July 17, 2004
ctheory.net
The online journal ctheory.net has just published Life in the Wires: the Ctheory Reader, which is a great additiona to …
July 10, 2004
中国农民调查 An Investigation of China’s Peasantry
A couple of months ago, everyone was amazed that a book which chronicled the shitty lives, abuse and endemic corruption …
June 23, 2004
China’s ‘gray’ publishing
This article on That’s Magazines explore the vile legal world of publishing in China.
Shanghai. (Interfax-China) – A potential dispute is …
June 12, 2004
PRC news china briefing 2004-06-11
Winds of Change – Regional Briefings have their regular update of things going on in China. It’s a very good …
May 29, 2004
Chinese as it is spoke
Following hard on the heels of French banning ‘le weekend’ and Quebec’s plans for air-traffic controllers to speak the international …
May 17, 2004
Dance Rebooted Conference
Deakin University in Melbourne is hosting the dance research conference Dance Rebooted – Initialising the Grid from July 01 – …
May 15, 2004
798 Factories – great article shame about the title
The 大山字 Dashanzi Arts Festival at 798 Factories made the news in Australia today, and not just in buried in …
May 15, 2004
798 Factories books
The 798 Factories Dashanzi Arts Festival is going on at the moment, and for those of us who can’t make …
May 15, 2004
Internet – opiate of the masses
China and the internet is one of those topics which gets swung around and made to represent whatever position the …
May 13, 2004
I whore for syndication
Just a couple of days over a month since I started this blog, and about a year after I fell …
May 5, 2004
No change in forty years, 焦國標 Jiao Guobian on propaganda
Much is being made of 焦國標 Jiao Guobian, journalism professor at Beijing University who wrote a vitriolic attack against the …
May 5, 2004
Taiwan imposes left-to-right order on writing
Taiwan’s parliament has passed a new law ruling that all text in official documents must be written from left to …
May 4, 2004
Reporters Sans Frontiers China Annual Report 2004
Reporters Sans Frontiers China Annual Report 2004
Reporters Sans Frontiers have released their Annual Report on China. The major event of …
May 3, 2004
World Press Freedom Day – not in China
Today is World Press Freedom Day, which is not a celebration, more of a remembering those killed, tortured, imprisoned, and …
May 2, 2004
博客 boke the Chinese blog revolution
Day two of China’s Digital Future covered a huge amount of topics, all of which are again reviewed in brief …
May 2, 2004
Rural poor get inane aphorisms instead of equality
I’ve been on a book-buying spree today, one of the luxuries of having an income at the moment. In all, …
April 26, 2004
This is a Magazine
This is a Magazineis the best magazine in the world! Somehow I missed issue 12 – (I promise that) Hardcore …
April 20, 2004
AlJazeera on Time’s Hot-100 list
The founders of the news channel everyone loves to hate has been voted one of Time Magazine’s World’s 100 most …
April 12, 2004
UnicodeChecker
I thought that like when I was doing XML for Flash, I could just write the Chinese characters in a …
i don’t understand
Since starting this part of my site almost 7 months ago, after having a very small flash-based news section on …