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 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 …
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
December 3, 2010 – 7:45 am
Burka Bondage
The past couple of months Dasniya has been rehearsing with Helena Waldmann, in a piece she helped with last year …
November 27, 2010 – 11:40 am
Reading: Edward Allworth (ed.) – Central Asia – 120 Years of Russian Rule
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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 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 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 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 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
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 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 10, 2010 – 4:02 am
Reading: James A. Millward – Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang
james a. millward – eurasian crossroads
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
May 30, 2010 – 1:41 pm
reading: charles stross – the clan corporate
charles stross – the clan corporate
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 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 3, 2010 – 2:45 pm
reading: hanna arendt – eichmann and the holocaust
reading: hanna arendt – eichmann and the holocaust
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 …
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 7, 2010 – 10:30 am
Reading: Iris Chang – The Rape of Nanking
iris chang – the rape of nanking
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 …
September 26, 2009 – 9:50 am
reading: j.g. ballard – empire of the sun
j.g. ballard – empire of the sun
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 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 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 …
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 …
January 8, 2007 – 7:36 pm
Protected: miscellaneous tranny stuff … coz we rule
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
January 2, 2007 – 9:41 pm
it’s all about the money #2
He could have ditched the first paragraph, stopped right at the end of the second sentence, and just copy-pasted that …
December 19, 2006 – 11:33 am
it’s all about the money
Slagging match of the week goes to Melbourne Festival vs. The Media, wherein Robin Usher tries to sound a rhetorical …
December 10, 2006 – 1:32 pm
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 – 3:18 pm
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 …
December 2, 2006 – 1:22 pm
yeah, that’s what i think too
MySpace. What a desolate crevasse of meaninglessness, fake pseudo-friends, lowest-common-denominators in every realm of human imagination and obscenely poor coding. …
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 17, 2006 – 9:13 pm
first against the wall etc …
At first I wasn’t going to blog this, you know, another smarmy round of greasy dandruff-ridden back-slapping and syphilitic self-congratulation, …
November 9, 2006 – 4:52 pm
shit if this is gonna’ be that kind of party
Actually it took longer than the time Rumsfeld used to announce he was bailing out of the White House to …
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 …
October 30, 2006 – 3:17 pm
some new blogs
About a week ago I was doing something and ended up splurting “contemporary dance” Melbourne into Google Blog Search. I …
October 21, 2006 – 1:35 pm
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 3, 2006 – 10:41 pm
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 – 11:52 am
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 23, 2006 – 11:37 am
the art of obliteration
Reblogging from We need money not art, the subtle, unintentional, council-approved art of erasing graffiti through semi-regular monotone blocks of …
August 15, 2006 – 6:01 pm
good riddance
Normally I wouldn’t quote from The Age as it’s really little more than mediocre tabloid sensationalism, and if I want …
July 14, 2006 – 7:09 pm
war and sport take centre stage
While having coffee with one choreographer who knows firsthand the House of Un-American Activities Commission blacklist trials that is Australian …
July 12, 2006 – 8:41 am
吴皓 hao wu released
Read all about it on Free Hao Wu. China: Wu Hao released Filed under: About Hao Wu, News, Nina’s blog …
July 6, 2006 – 1:35 pm
a knife in the guts for danceworks
While I was wandering in my lederhosen across the alps of western Yunnan, Arts Victoria announced they would not be …
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 …
May 28, 2006 – 10:50 pm
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 – 3:13 pm
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 …
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 …
April 17, 2006 – 11:43 pm
supernaut is lazy (but can read…)
I’d probably be better using del.icio.us for all the stuff I read, but I found on top of keeping supernaut …
March 23, 2006 – 4:55 pm
释放吴皓 free hao wu
I started reading Feng 37 a few weeks ago for his endless translations of contemporary Chinese poetry, and being another …
March 15, 2006 – 10:51 pm
hard art to void dead words
Every time I make a piece, and looking back on it, I think how much more intense and overwhelming it …
February 17, 2006 – 2:20 pm
my name is 张德江 Zhang Dejiang
I’ve been slowly limiting my China obsession to merely a Guangdong Province one. Mainly because China is simply too vast …
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 …
December 31, 2005 – 12:15 pm
从太石村到东洲坑——更危险的一步 From Taishi village to Dongzhou–a step into danger
The massacre of peasants in Dongzhou, in Guangdong Province happened earlier this month, when I was having blog problems and …
November 13, 2005 – 7:33 pm
art is treason
Just before I left Australia for Taiwan last year, the odious forces of imperialism, bizarrely named the Liberals got back …
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 27, 2005 – 3:57 pm
太石村 taishi village – in the media
Sometimes everyone likes jumping on an event for no real reason, and forgets, ignores and generally pretends others haven’t happened. …
October 26, 2005 – 1:22 am
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 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 11, 2005 – 3:01 am
太石村 taishi village – so much for feeling happy
A while ago, I wrote about the 太石村 Taishi village election in Panyu District of Guangzhou, and how it was …
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 – 9:05 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 …
October 2, 2005 – 1:44 am
architecture for dictators
Periodically Domus deals with architecture in Asia that goes beyond the mind-numbing childishness of Shanghai=good!!! and manages to make the …
October 2, 2005 – 1:04 am
royal hong kong circus tour of guangzhou
One of the events of last week which was variously setting a precedent, and ice-breaking on the level of Nixon …
September 25, 2005 – 7:42 pm
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 21, 2005 – 1:17 am
太石村 taishi village elections
One of the more interesting pieces on politics in China I’ve read recently came in the form of two pretty …
September 13, 2005 – 3:25 am
shock! surprise! ozco doesn’t fund me for the eleventh time!
Who’d a fucking thought? I mean the odds were seriously in my favour: 11 applications and 0, zero, zero success, …
September 5, 2005 – 7:05 pm
how to blog anonymously
Reporters sans Frontières have just released a booklet Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents, in several languages including Chinese. Alot of …
September 2, 2005 – 5:05 am
uli sigg – the man behind the flying fetus
In keeping with my new news policy, I only write about things that happened more than two weeks ago, which …
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 23, 2005 – 5:11 am
women’s social rights are not critical to the evolution of democracy
I have pretty much steered clear saying anything about the great neo-colonial escapade in Iraq, despite keeping up with the …
August 20, 2005 – 3:25 am
holy flying fetuses batman
Speaking of 萧昱 Xiao Yu and his penchant for the kind of art which would see him in the skanky …
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 …
June 15, 2005 – 6:06 pm
changing the law to match your gender
It shits me so much that something so obvious has to become the province of the law and the courts …
May 28, 2005 – 8:07 pm
mao the destroyer
There is always something despicable about tourists who collect Mao memorabilia or wear Great Helmsman badges. For me it is …
May 27, 2005 – 8:20 pm
queer in china
The last week or so I’ve seen alot more stuff on gays in China in the press. Maybe it’s something …
May 26, 2005 – 12:42 am
bikes are bad
When I first arrived in Guangzhou, I was expecting to see more bicycles. I wasn’t too surprised by their relative …
April 14, 2005 – 11:18 pm
Art is fanaticism that demands diplomacy.
Back in the early 90s, Laibach stomped around in pseudo-facist uniforms, banged drums with fanatic zeal and blonde hair like …
April 5, 2005 – 10:19 pm
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 5, 2005 – 10:05 pm
sex-change ops on the tab
The New Zealand government has decided to start picking up the tab on sex-change operations. Not for everyone though. Only …
March 21, 2005 – 9:59 pm
they rule
Just in case you had any illusions about the benevolence of the Chinese communist party, who’ve shared the love three …
March 17, 2005 – 2:16 pm
china demonstrates small-dick syndrome
The big news since I landed in Melbourne that everyone wants an answer to is, “When do they begin bombing?” …
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 …
January 25, 2005 – 3:30 pm
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 – 3:32 pm
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: …
January 14, 2005 – 12:23 pm
free public lynching
The issue with Australia Council for the Arts eviscerating the New Media Arts Board has had a slight hiatus over …
January 8, 2005 – 3:35 pm
damming tiger leaping gorge
Not content with trashing 600 kilometers of the Three Gorges and making a formerly spectacular terrain resemble little more than …
December 24, 2004 – 3:15 pm
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 – 12:26 pm
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 23, 2004 – 6:26 pm
give me toilet architecture or give me death
Professor Yu is going to be taking alot of shit for a while for thinking Rem Koolhaas should apologise for …
December 21, 2004 – 5:48 pm
ANAT on the murder of the new media art board
Keeping on with the news that the government has decided to destroy the new media arts board of the Australia …
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 …
December 9, 2004 – 6:34 pm
new media arts wasted
Part two of the news that Australia Council is trashing the New Media Arts Board. I’m posting this email in …
December 9, 2004 – 12:43 pm
australia council dumps new media arts board
This morning, the Fibreculture mailing-list was dealing with what will rank as one of the worst decisions made in Australian …
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 …
November 18, 2004 – 4:17 pm
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 …
November 9, 2004 – 10:56 pm
let’s talk about sex baby
It’s a sex-arama in across China and Taiwan this week. Leaving behind me in Guangzhou is the second annual sex …
October 10, 2004 – 1:38 pm
axis of evil
I’m considering applying for refugee status to the Belgium Consulate. Howard winning the election again, gaining votes, and the emergence …
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 24, 2004 – 9:30 pm
baghdad year zero
I haven’t written about the war in Iraq, or the radical conservative politics and coming elections either in America or …
September 9, 2004 – 11:24 pm
華山 huashan – when art becomes industry
What’s in a name? When it comes to art, there’s a big world between an arts and cultural centre, and …
August 31, 2004 – 10:17 pm
pollution in China
The Economist published a fairly detailed article on the state of the environment in China, the levels of continuing degradation …
August 3, 2004 – 12:08 am
china’s rural divide
The New York Times is running a series of articles, The Great Divide, on the widening gap between the affluent …
July 11, 2004 – 5:25 pm
china and taiwan
An excellent article appeared over at Living in China, on why China won’t bomb the crap out of Taiwan despite …
June 12, 2004 – 3:17 pm
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 5, 2004 – 10:57 pm
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 – 8:49 pm
Nothing happened in Palestine
Yesterday, Melbourne’s The Age ran a front page story on a work by two artists in a Flinders St gallery …
May 2, 2004 – 2:37 am
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 – 8:38 pm
This is why we’re in power and you’re not
The Standing Committee of China’s parliament insane dictatorship, the National People’s Congress ruled today that Hong Kong will not have …
April 20, 2004 – 1:06 am
My life with Hepatitis B
China has a dazzling record for skillful and compassionate management of health crisises. While its well-considered denial and mismanagement of …
April 18, 2004 – 1:10 pm
PRC News China Briefing: 2004-04-14
Winds of Change.NET Regional Briefings run regular updates on news around the world. This update appeared there on April 14, …
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 …