Cursed With Good Ideas

CWGI #19: Breaking all memes (with Idil Galip)

The nineteenth episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, sixty-six minutes of rapid-fire meme studies takes with hosts Dino Chang and Gabriele de Seta riffing off over Idil Galip's recent ventures.
In this episode: Jason Bateman memes, Meme Studies Research Network, Critical Meme Reader III, iFunny.co memes, non-memes.
Lack of stereo separation thanks to a missing checkbox for individual audio track output.
LINKS:
- Meme Studies Research Network: https://memestudiesrn.wordpress.com/
- Critical Meme Reader III: Breaking the Meme: https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/critical-meme-reader-iii-breaking-the-meme/
- Nick Douglas' "It's supposed to look like shit" paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1470412914544516
- @idontreadtheory Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/idontreadtheory/
 
 
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CWGI #18: Ultrastable systems (with Dylan Levi King)

The eighteenth episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, eighty-eight minutes of feedback loops with Asa Roast, Dino Chang and Gabriele de Seta nerding out about Dylan Levi King's work.
In this episode: translating Chinese literature, Chinese cybernetics, DPRK environmentalism, Japanese fashion, Asia-as-method.
Thuds and cuts due to experimental microphone setups.
LINKS:
- Jia Pingwa's "The Shaanxi Opera": https://www.amazon.com/Shaanxi-Opera-Part-novel-ebook/
- Angela Xiao Wu's "Journalism via systems cybernetics": https://hms.mediastudies.press/pub/wu-journalism-systems/release/6
- Dylan's "Ketamine and the return of the party state": https://www.palladiummag.com/2021/06/23/ketamine-and-the-return-of-the-party-state/
- Dylan's "The genealogy of Chinese cybernetics": https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/10/17/the-genealogy-of-chinese-cybernetics/
 
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CWGI x Deathnography - The Advice Show Crossover Episode

A special crossover episode brought to you by CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS and Deathnography, one hundred and eight minutes of call-in show with Dino Chang, Gabriele de Seta, Patrick Harrison, and Henry Lee answering your questions and giving advice to Young Men.
In this episode: sapiosexuality, academic career, love, labor, therapy, cuckoldry
Coughs and volume dips due to smoking and shared recording facilities.
LINKS:
- Deathnography podcast: https://deathnography.libsyn.com/
- James Cage White: https://twitter.com/JamesCageWhite
- Palo Alto: https://www.amazon.com/Palo-Alto-History-California-Capitalism
- Dino's Green Hat Society essay: https://theasiadialogue.com/2019/11/21/the-spectacle-of-cuckoldry-and-the-crisis-of-the-libidinal-economy/
 
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CWGI #17: A l g o r i t h m s (with Nick Seaver)

The seventeenth episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, ninety-three minutes of collaborative filtering with Dino Chang, Gabriele de Seta, Patrick Harrison, and Asa Roast asking uninformed questions to Nick Seaver.
In this episode: cybernetics, algorithms, recommender systems, and methodological cope.
Hums and croaks courtesy of postgraduate mobility.
LINKS:
- Nick Seaver's "Computing Taste": https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo183892298.html
- Nick Seaver's scholarship: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GORu8nQAAAAJ&hl=en
- Lana Swartz's "New Money": https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300233223/new-money/
- Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan's "Code": https://www.dukeupress.edu/code
 
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CWGI #15: What happens when a phone dies (with Nicolas Nova & Anaïs Bloch)

The fifteenth episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, seventy-one minutes of socio-technical assemblage unpacking with Anaïs Bloch, Dino Chang, Gabriele de Seta, Patrick Harrison, and Nicolas Nova.
In this episode: smartphone affects, repair cultures, legendary solderers, and drawing as method.
Clicks and bleeps afforded by the caprices of broadband connections.
LINKS:
- Nicolas Nova & Anaïs Bloch's "Dr. Smartphone" book, Open Access PDF: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03106034/
- "Dr. Smartphone", print version: https://www.idpureshop.ch/web/catalogue.aspx?cat=62
- Nicolas Nova & DISNOVATION.ORG's "A Bestiary of the Anthropocene": https://bestiaryanthropocene.com/
- Anaïs Bloch's work: https://www.anaisbloch.ch/
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CWGI #14: The ethnographer as construction worker (with Leif)

The fourteenth episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, seventy-seven minutes of urban fieldwork reminiscences with Asa Roast, Dino Chang, Gabriele de Seta, Leif, and Patrick Harrison.
In this episode: black pollution, construction work masculinities, urban ethnography and anxious wealth.
Audio artifacts and bitcrushing sponsored by Zoom compression algorithms.
LINKS:
- Overhead cable removal in Shanghai: http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/post/23023/are-overhead-cables-in-shanghai-about-to-become-a-thing-of-the-past
- John Osburg's "Anxious Wealth": https://www.perlego.com/book/744833/anxious-wealth-money-and-morality-among-chinas-new-rich-pdf
- Sarah Swider's "Building China": https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801456930/building-china
- Leif's "Bordering Shanghai": https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016718515302311
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CWGI #13: The Unavoidable Lockdown Episode (with Andrew Holtz & Marianne von Blomberg)

The thirtheeth episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, seventy minutes of inescapable lockdown chronicles with Andrew Holtz, Dino Chang, Gabriele de Seta, Joy Zhu and Marianne von Blomberg.
In this episode: Epidemiology 101, social credit system, health QR codes, and empty airports.
Echoes and ghostly crackles kindly offered by smartphone microphones.
LINKS:- COVID-19 spikes in Hong Kong, Singapore & Taiwan: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/09/world/asia/coronavirus-hong-kong-singapore-taiwan.html - Alibaba's Hangzhou Health Code: https://technode.com/2020/04/07/china-voices-how-alibaba-built-chinas-health-code/ - Andrew Holtz's blog: https://medium.com/@andrew.holtz94 - Marianne von Blomberg on the social credit score: https://mappingchina.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MCJ-No-2-2018-Blomberg.pdf
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CWGI #12: Boredom and self-quarantine in Wuhan

The twelfth episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, fifty-four minutes of catch-up with Clément Renaud, Dino Chang, Digougou and Gabriele de Seta.
In this episode: Coronavirus, self-imposed quarantine, epidemic boredom and Wuhanese identity.
Phased voices and microphone taps are 100% organic.
LINKS:- 2019-nCoV crisis recap: https://chublicopinion.com/2020/02/04/wuhan-a-tale-of-immune-system-failure-and-social-strength/ - More on quarantined life: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30299-3/fulltext - Anti-pangolin propaganda: https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-pangolins-intermediary-host-2020-2 - WHU Alumni fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-wuhan-fight-through-coronavirus
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