owen lattimore – inner asian frontiers of china
May 30, 2011 – 11:00 am
supernaut updates supernaut
Last night I noticed the dilapidated state of my sidebar links. “Who uses them anyway?”, I thought, before answering myself …
May 16, 2011 – 7:41 pm
Nein! Nein! Nicht die Wunde ist es.
I heard it slightly wrong. Parsifal, struck with awareness of Amfortas and the wound is physically overwrought. “Sie brennt in …
April 6, 2011 – 4:29 pm
reading: vera schwarcz – the chinese enlightenment: intellectuals and the legacy of the may fourth movement of 1919
vera schwarcz – the chinese enlightenment
April 6, 2011 – 4:26 pm
Reading: Paul Hockenos – Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic
paul hockenos – joschka fischer
February 18, 2011 – 2:51 pm
parsipress? pressifal?
More? More! Continuing on from when Castellucci was a criminal … Words and Pictures!. I was planning on making an …
February 12, 2011 – 3:44 am
the sound of the people gives me hope
There has not been enough of this in my lifetime. It’s almost 4am, I should be going to sleep but …
February 9, 2011 – 3:28 pm
The last free people on the planet
I started reading Neuroanthropology a couple of years ago at least, and it has been one of the first blogs …
February 7, 2011 – 2:17 pm
castellucci is a criminal
After the fourth performance, an emotionally tough night for us, we stand outside the stage door. A woman in beret, …
January 1, 2011 – 4:47 pm
miscellanea surrounding friday evening
Did I say we tried the second scene mostly naked with much whiteness? Comes off with soapy showering. That was …
December 24, 2010 – 11:33 am
Reading: Frank Dikötter – Mao’s Great Famine
frank dikötter – mao’s great famine
December 18, 2010 – 4:07 am
Reading: Reza Negarestani – Cyclonopedia
reza negarestani – cyclonopedia
November 27, 2010 – 11:40 am
Reading: Edward Allworth (ed.) – Central Asia – 120 Years of Russian Rule
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November 27, 2010 – 11:37 am
Reading: James R. Brandon – Theatre in Southeast Asia
james r. brandon – theatre in southeast asia
November 27, 2010 – 11:13 am
blacker…
China Miéville’s rejectamentalist manifesto has been one of my favourite daily-ish reads since I stumbled into it after wondering where …
October 20, 2010 – 1:28 am
Zwei Bäume weniger in Berlin nur Baustellen und Bagger und brave Bürger..
zwei bäume weniger – 1 zwei bäume weniger – 2 zwei bäume weniger – 3 zwei bäume weniger – 4 …
October 19, 2010 – 1:09 am
Uferstrasse Trees
A few months ago various people in Uferstrasse got together to save some trees that were to be felled in …
October 16, 2010 – 7:27 am
“Reading: … ” Book of the Year (Non-Fiction): Jonathan Safran Foer – Eating Animals
jonathan safran foer – eating animals
October 16, 2010 – 4:35 am
Reading… a 3rd anniversary
Regarding the two-score books of the last year, it is surprising which of the non-fiction – a term I use …
October 10, 2010 – 1:36 pm
uferhallen – autumn
A warm autumn afternoon yesterday with Michael, come all the way from Madrid. A morning cleaning, and more warmth of …
October 9, 2010 – 3:31 am
Liu Xiaobo 刘晓波
Congratulations to Liu Xiaobo for being awarded the Nobel Peace prize. I’ve been keeping up with my reading on this …
October 4, 2010 – 5:07 am
Reading: Nazif Shahrani – The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan
nazif shahrani – the kirghiz and wakhi of afghanistan
October 4, 2010 – 5:02 am
Reading: Peter Hopkirk – Foreign Devils on the Silk Road
peter hopkins – foreign devils on the silk road
October 4, 2010 – 5:01 am
Reading: Peter Hopkirk – Trespassers on the Roof of the World
peter hopkins – trespassers on the roof of the world
September 19, 2010 – 1:59 am
eating: lamb and fresh fig tajine
Michael came back to Berlin for the weekend, a welcome surprise that coincided nicely with my weeks-long desire for a …
September 17, 2010 – 4:34 am
zwei jahre aufenthaltstitel
Not much writing here lately, being distracted with a couple of large design projects and miscellaneous other things (mostly involving …
September 12, 2010 – 1:23 am
(Some) Stuff I Read This Week
For some reason I decided to start using Twitter again — I suspect iPhone — and without any clear purpose …
September 11, 2010 – 8:50 am
müggelsee by boat and foot
Today rising somewhat early and then via S-Bahn (und zwei abgefickte neo-faschisten), Ostkreuz, S-Bahn again to Friedrichshagen, a town outside …
September 7, 2010 – 12:20 am
Reading: Matthew T. Kapstein – The Tibetans
matthew t. kapstein – the tibetans
September 5, 2010 – 4:24 am
germany is (slightly) embarrassing itself
Reading signandsight’s From the Feuilletons this week… it’s been dead in my feed for some time, but returned with excellent …
August 27, 2010 – 3:55 am
reading: charles stross – the trade of queens
reading: charles stross – the trade of queens
August 22, 2010 – 11:38 am
Reading: Gerald Siegmund – William Forsythe: Denken in Bewegung
Gerald Siegmund – William Forsythe: Denken in Bewegung
August 12, 2010 – 9:39 am
Werner Bab
One of the first sites I did as a freelancer was porting imdialog-ev.org from a dead cms into WordPress for …
August 9, 2010 – 2:49 am
reading: jonathan safran foer – eating animals
jonathan safran foer – eating animals
August 2, 2010 – 12:02 pm
lainzer tiergarten
I took off away from the city yesterday, as I’d been planning since before I arrived, remembering wandering in the …
July 29, 2010 – 4:45 am
die bäume bleiben
(Just before cycling back to rehearsal…) Our beautiful tree of Uferstrasse will remain for the moment. The Berliner Wasserbetriebe has …
July 25, 2010 – 9:32 am
sophiensäle wien
Blogging daily about Café Prückel I think I can say won’t be happening. Much busyness, running around, long days, inability …
July 19, 2010 – 12:50 pm
Reading: Christopher I Beckwith – The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia
christopher i. beckwith – the tibetan empire in central asia
July 17, 2010 – 2:17 am
Nowkoelln Flowmarkt
Because I never manage to be here on the one Sunday a month, and shall be gone to Vienna tomorrow …
July 10, 2010 – 11:34 am
brussels parc forest and others…
Ten days in Brussels, it passes quickly. Tomorrow returning to my other home. I haven’t written much about being here, …
July 10, 2010 – 4:02 am
Reading: James A. Millward – Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang
james a. millward – eurasian crossroads
July 8, 2010 – 5:31 am
on science and ethics
Many of you who read my blog or know me personally know I am a bit of a lush for …
June 18, 2010 – 4:06 pm
reading: frank dikotter – the age of openness: china before mao
frank dikotter – the age of openness: china before mao
June 17, 2010 – 3:57 pm
reading: charles stross – the revolution business
charles stross – the revolution business
June 16, 2010 – 3:56 pm
reading: charles stross – the merchants’ war
charles stross – the merchants’ war
May 30, 2010 – 1:41 pm
reading: charles stross – the clan corporate
charles stross – the clan corporate
May 26, 2010 – 1:37 pm
reading: charles stross – the hidden family
charles stross – the hidden family
May 18, 2010 – 4:10 am
reading: hanna arendt – eichmann in jerusalem
reading: hanna arendt – eichmann in jerusalem
May 16, 2010 – 4:04 am
reading: charles stross – the family trade
reading: charles stross – the family trade
May 11, 2010 – 12:54 pm
bechdel’s law
A couple of days ago I was reading Thus Spake Zuska, one of the many science blogs I consume most …
May 9, 2010 – 11:08 am
reading: juan cole – engaging the muslim world
juan cole – engaging the muslim world
May 9, 2010 – 5:13 am
art sunday
Some rather nice art has fallen my way recently, falling around something that might become abjection. Of course it induces …
May 6, 2010 – 7:41 am
reading: Leslie T. Chang – Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
Leslie T. Chang – Factory Girls
May 6, 2010 – 7:37 am
brussels train
A week in Brussels. Much reading, three new books, two finished. Much cooking also, Hans, Aunschka, Paea whom I’ve not …
May 3, 2010 – 2:45 pm
reading: hanna arendt – eichmann and the holocaust
reading: hanna arendt – eichmann and the holocaust
May 1, 2010 – 10:09 am
reading: charles stross – saturn’s children
charles stross – saturn’s children
May 1, 2010 – 3:37 am
I am a Muslim
Coming to Berlin caused my attention to drift to a small part of my life I know little about, and …
April 29, 2010 – 6:15 am
sydney’s siberia and other digital creatures
No, I don’t actually remember which Mac forum I discovered Jason Nelson and secrettechnology on. I do though highly enjoy …
April 18, 2010 – 12:14 pm
Kirschblütenfest in den Asiatischen Gärten
Journeying far east to Erholungspark Marzhan and the Gärten der Welt for the Cherry Blossom Festival. Much apartment-stack architecture reminding …
April 9, 2010 – 1:50 pm
london – a proof
Why are you photographing busses in Picadilly Circus? To prove I was here. … and that I was a tourist. …
March 15, 2010 – 12:38 am
reading: iain m. banks – consider phlebas (second time)
iain m. banks – consider phlebas
February 4, 2010 – 2:15 pm
anouk van dijk & falk richter – TRUST
The set is moody, gloomy, dark, chrome chairs and black leather sofa, matching seats, a stylist-industrial minimalist clutter extending back …
January 31, 2010 – 4:14 am
reading: g. whitney azoy – buzkashi – game and power in afghanistan
g. whitney azoy – buzkashi
January 21, 2010 – 11:12 am
reading: christopher i. beckwith – empires of the silk road
christopher i. beckwith – empires of the silk road
January 21, 2010 – 11:08 am
reading: iranophobia – the logic of an israeli obsession – haggai ram
iranophobia – haggai ram
January 10, 2010 – 5:28 am
Reading: Feng Jicai – Voices from the Whirlwind
feng jicai – voices from the whirlwind
January 7, 2010 – 10:33 am
Reading: Katherine Pratt Ewing – Stolen Honor – Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin
katherine pratt ewing – stolen honor
January 5, 2010 – 12:49 pm
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 22, 2009 – 2:21 am
solstice
Taoism struggles against the cultural preference for the “light.” The Tao Te Ching, especially, champions the low, the dark. Darkness …
November 3, 2009 – 12:58 pm
Reading… a 2nd anniversary
My reading the last year has not been of either the volume, nor the breadth of the previous, in no …
October 25, 2009 – 7:05 am
orgy of tolerance
To have your idols disappoint. It is a delicious sensation. And probably inevitable, necessary. My Friday Antwerp wanderings, despite the …
October 11, 2009 – 1:43 pm
Ath
An adventure yesterday, south-west of Bruxelles for around 30 minutes. A train with Gala, past a town called Silly. No, …
October 10, 2009 – 2:45 am
antwerpen
A train to Antwerpen with no ticket despite my attempts to buy one. Thirty minutes in which I think upon …
October 8, 2009 – 4:39 am
SOIT – We Was Them
To start at the end. Or, an ending. Somewhere past an hour, Ivan and Harold (I think) sit on the …
October 4, 2009 – 2:50 am
i have a futon
The last time I saw my futon was, I think, early last year when I temporarily removed from storage all …
September 30, 2009 – 2:20 pm
hilary
“…and when terror strikes just take a deep breath and remember that life is just one long learning experience. Nothing, …
September 26, 2009 – 10:35 am
sorayama nawa shibari
Last night with the wonderful Katrin, I was introduced to an artist I’d not thought upon for years, and likely …
September 26, 2009 – 9:50 am
reading: j.g. ballard – empire of the sun
j.g. ballard – empire of the sun
August 24, 2009 – 12:09 pm
i went to bruxelles… the weekend…
Ballet Friday, wandering the streets after and eating a lot. Mussels missed, but waffles, chocolate, pommes frites, beer, all yes. …
August 20, 2009 – 11:00 am
i went to bruxelles…
I was possessed by the desire to go to Brussels on Sunday last week, and in a fit of unusualness, …
August 17, 2009 – 10:27 am
save the vca
It is a long time ago now, camping on the lawn outside the front of Victorian College of the Arts …
August 8, 2009 – 11:48 am
häuslichkeit
I vacuum. Much hair. Häuslichwissenschaft. The grey fluff is, I suppose, mostly my skin. Grey and red. Occasional haferflocken. The …
August 5, 2009 – 1:53 pm
a chronology of burnt-out corpses
Mainly that I laughed and snorted when I read the title and looked at the familiar map of Berlin drowned …
July 19, 2009 – 4:18 am
Gunter Kroemer
Over much of this year I’ve been working with Christian Ender on rebuilding the code of one of his documentary …
July 26, 2008 – 8:21 am
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 – 7:05 am
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 21, 2008 – 4:37 am
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 5) (and sunday also)
umm… Supermodels. Catwalks. Shopping lists. Hate. Ambivalence. Whispering. Not whispering loudly enough. Microphones. Costume changes. Love. Happiness. Drugs. Music. This …
July 18, 2008 – 6:30 am
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 4)
So perhaps I admit I’m going to blog about this most days… Somehow I found myself doing yoga at WUK …
July 17, 2008 – 5:44 am
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 …
July 16, 2008 – 6:05 am
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 2)
I ate prunes today. I went to find coffee, and found myself with chocolate croissant and mélange in a dainty …
July 14, 2008 – 5:30 am
von berlin hbf nach wien sued
Early rising, 9 hours from Berlin to Vienna, through Czechoslovakia, I’ve never been there before. Now I’ve seen several train …
November 22, 2007 – 2:57 pm
kunst and the greens
Three years ago I was so happy to be leaving Australia immediately after the nauseating reelection of that repulsive clique …
December 1, 2006 – 3:24 pm
more on the Small Arts Sector Research Project
A couple of days ago I wrote about the new Small Arts Sector Research Project the Arts Industry Australia (Victoria) …
November 28, 2006 – 7:00 pm
Small Arts Sector Research Project
For all the independent artists around in Melbourne this Friday, the Arts Industry Council (Victoria) has announced this meeting. Please …
November 22, 2006 – 11:45 am
liberals arts policy: go fuck yourselves
I can’t quite articulate exactly how much I want to see the Victorian Liberals hurled bodily into a swampy, fetid …
November 4, 2006 – 8:02 am
la mama – does anyone take ozco seriously anymore?
A few days ago, I was talking with someone about a certain hack from the Herald Sun, whose name evades …
August 16, 2006 – 10:59 pm
savage formosa
National Geographic is one of those magazines like good chocolate I get breathless over when each new issue arrives in …
July 7, 2006 – 6:57 pm
三元里 san yuan li in new york
Ou Ning of Alternative Archive, who does spend more time in airports than me, and possibly the person mostly likely …
June 19, 2006 – 1:07 pm
一队夫妻只生育一孩子
A friend was in town for a day, so I subjected him to my tour of Canton, walking from where …
June 18, 2006 – 3:24 pm
the turmoil ended with his death
During 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD, China didn’t celebrate forty years since the start of the Cultural Revolution, and for various reasons …
April 29, 2006 – 3:18 pm
we hate art and like nothing interesting
Beijing’s Dashanzi Art District which I always think of as embodying contemporary Chinese art as so much of it comes …
April 28, 2006 – 1:02 pm
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 …
February 16, 2006 – 6:49 pm
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 9, 2006 – 8:54 pm
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 …
December 27, 2005 – 3:16 pm
transsexuals in china
There was a kinda interesting article in China Daily, about a transsexual named Xiao Ying, who is about to have …
December 27, 2005 – 2:39 pm
同志 tongzhi getting queer in china
It could have been the part of town I was hanging out in, or it could be that Guangzhou is …
November 6, 2005 – 2:06 am
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 …
October 16, 2005 – 11:08 pm
china’s changing landscape
The first time I took the KCR train from Hong Kong to Guangzhou I thought I’d arrived in Mordor. Endless …
October 9, 2005 – 1:00 am
you must wait for democracy
China and democracy. Well there goes easy access to my website in China. The meme of China and its globally …
October 2, 2005 – 9:16 pm
all of china at the kennedy centre
There’s a fairly huge mega-company type cultural celebration of China going on at the moment at both the Kennedy Centre …
October 2, 2005 – 9:05 pm
the absence of hong kong art
Yan at Glutter got stuck into the abysmal state of contemporary arts in Hong Kong today, with My HK Contemporary …
September 18, 2005 – 7:56 pm
a jew in china is not a parsimonious monkey
Some uppity group called with a bad name, Peacetime Foundation of Taiwan have decided the world would be a better …
September 17, 2005 – 6:04 pm
buck & allanah – the universe makes sense
I think this entry is gonna generate huge quantities of spam, considering just how much people like coming here for …
September 5, 2005 – 5:06 am
同志 tongzhi studies at fudan university
Here’s another piece on the new queer studies class at Fudan University. Besides thinking this is really cool and China …
September 2, 2005 – 5:16 am
同志 tongzhi queers in China’s universities
Tong Ge, who is in his late 50s, said the haunts for homosexuals had changed dramatically in recent years. “Up …
September 2, 2005 – 5:00 am
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 – 3:38 am
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 6, 2005 – 7:12 am
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 …
June 15, 2005 – 7:21 pm
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 …
May 25, 2005 – 1:08 pm
babes in beijing
In 1989, Rachel DeWoskin arrived in Beijing fresh from university to work for an American P.R. firm. Two months later …
February 20, 2005 – 10:47 pm
punching on in the mainland
Within twenty-four hours of getting into guangzhou, I saw one almost riot at the train station between really pissed off …
February 10, 2005 – 10:11 pm
burp …
Heading back to Taipei tomorrow after a week of eating. Posting will occur like a Chinese fireworks inferno some time …
December 20, 2004 – 4:24 pm
人造美女 – miss artificial beauty
The first beauty competition in China for people who had plastic surgery, 人造美女, is over, and the winner is Feng …
December 12, 2004 – 1:57 pm
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 …
November 28, 2004 – 10:01 pm
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 …
October 4, 2004 – 8:26 pm
art and freedom vs. money in shanghai
With the recent issues in Australia of arts funding being sent on a round trip through the local abbatoir, and …
September 29, 2004 – 10:51 pm
miss tiffany singapore
Miss Tiffany has been crowned for the first time in Singapore. In an imitation of the famous Thailand beauty pageant …
September 9, 2004 – 10:21 pm
prostitution in china
Andrés Gentry has written one of the most in-depth and compassionate pieces on prostitution in China I have ever read. …
August 23, 2004 – 8:38 pm
ximending
The Taipei Times had a piece on Ximending, which sounds like either the kind of place I’d want to live …
July 19, 2004 – 10:13 pm
thorpe is gay
Nat and Ali managed to make it all over the news this week with their project Hungry Bums, part of …
July 7, 2004 – 6:50 pm
崔子恩 《丑角登场》 Cui Zi’en – Enter The Clowns
Something I wish I’d known about last time I was in China are the films of Cui Zi’en. There is …
July 7, 2004 – 10:49 am
humanism in china
Humanism in China, the photographic exhibition which started at the Guangzhou Museum of Art in December 2003, and travelled to …
June 23, 2004 – 1:45 pm
where are all the good looking chinese girls?
The Straits Times has a bunch of filler between ads on the wild world of beauty contests that are rampant …
May 19, 2004 – 1:47 am
Smells like teen spirit
One day there’s too many queer westerners causing television presenters to dye their hair unnatural colours, expose too much flesh …
April 24, 2004 – 8:46 pm
Chinese no funny
Vice Magazine. A bunch of cut-rate losers from Canada. Last month, their International Department advanced the so-close-we’re-moist bilateral relationship between …
April 17, 2004 – 1:18 pm
Reefer Madness in China
Like every western country, the youth of China are getting turned on to the pleasure of getting wasted; dropping into …
April 17, 2004 – 12:07 am
Prime Minister ‘reflects’ on sex-change
Alex is 13 and wants to be a boy – not just in name and identity, but also on his …