Episodes

Monday May 29, 2023
CWGI x Deathnography - The Advice Show Crossover Episode
Monday May 29, 2023
Monday May 29, 2023
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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Sunday Feb 12, 2023
CWGI #17: A l g o r i t h m s (with Nick Seaver)
Sunday Feb 12, 2023
Sunday Feb 12, 2023
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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Sunday Apr 11, 2021
CWGI #15: What happens when a phone dies (with Nicolas Nova & Anaïs Bloch)
Sunday Apr 11, 2021
Sunday Apr 11, 2021
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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Thursday Jan 21, 2021
CWGI #14: The ethnographer as construction worker (with Leif)
Thursday Jan 21, 2021
Thursday Jan 21, 2021
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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Wednesday May 06, 2020
CWGI #13: The Unavoidable Lockdown Episode (with Andrew Holtz & Marianne von Blomberg)
Wednesday May 06, 2020
Wednesday May 06, 2020
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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Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
CWGI #12: Boredom and self-quarantine in Wuhan
Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
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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Saturday Jan 25, 2020
CWGI #11: At the Institute for Findom Research (with Nel)
Saturday Jan 25, 2020
Saturday Jan 25, 2020
The eleventh episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, sixty-eight minutes of living room vibing with Nel and hosts Dino Chang, Gabriele de Seta and Patrick Harrison.
In this episode: Taiwan elections, nation-state cosplaying, financial domination and green hat cuckoldry.
VOIP delay and occasional garbage collection truck jingles prove our site-specificity.
LINKS:
- Institute for Findom Research: https://twitter.com/FindomInstitute
- The retweet game: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-retweet-slaves-who-worship-their-dommes-on-twitter
- Findom in the Philippines: https://netnography595114714.wordpress.com/2017/12/12/findom/
- Findom in China & Hong Kong: https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/2094964/findom-fetish-asia-pay-pigs-money-slaves-and-why-men-dont-want-sex-women
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Sunday Oct 27, 2019
CWGI #10: Wuhan, Different Everyday! (with Ge Yulu)
Sunday Oct 27, 2019
Sunday Oct 27, 2019
The tenth episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, seventy-two minutes of bilingual exchanges with Ge Yulu and hosts Dino Chang, Gabriele de Seta and Digougou.
In this episode: growing up in Wuhan, 1.5 tier cities, contemporary art education and surveillance cameras.
Background disturbances resulting from precarious on-site recording.
LINKS:
- Ge Yulu's "Where the streets had my name" http://www.chinafile.com/multimedia/video/where-streets-had-my-name
- Ge's dildo on flagpole installation: https://radiichina.com/beijing-art-student-punished-for-putting-dildo-on-flagpole/
- Xu Bing's "Dragonfly Eyes" trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4JsoR25DP4
- Dorothy J. Sollinger's "Streets as suspect" article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14672715.2013.758819
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Friday Apr 19, 2019
CWGI #9: Surviving a PhD dissertation (with Asa Roast)
Friday Apr 19, 2019
Friday Apr 19, 2019
The ninth episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, sixty-three minutes of postdoctoral therapy with Asa Roast and hosts Jonathan Burrow, Dino Chang, and Gabriele de Seta.
In this episode: PhD hazing, dissertation PTSD, coping strategies and YouTube rabbit holes.
Continuity errors due to wedding commitments.
LINKS:
- Asa Roast's website: http://asaroast.com/work
- 60 Minute Cities - Chongqing: https://bivouacrecording.postach.io/post/60-minute-cities-chongqing-60fen-zhong-wo-de-cheng-shi-zhong-qing
- Bruno Latour's "On the difficulty of being an ANT": https://www.douban.com/group/topic/17840258/
- The tracksuit meme: https://www.popbuzz.com/internet/viral/jawad-bendaoud-meme-video/
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Saturday Dec 01, 2018
CWGI #8: Shanghai and the aesthetics of failure (with Katy Roseland)
Saturday Dec 01, 2018
Saturday Dec 01, 2018
The eight episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, fifty-five minutes of underground insights with Katy Roseland (Basement6, Shanghai Community Radio) and hosts Dino Chang, Gabriele de Seta & Patrick Harrison.
In this episode: Shanghai's creative basements, art spies, community radios and club culture.
Involuntary reverb courtesy of Skype feedback.
LINKS:
- Basement6: http://www.basement6collective.com/
- Shanghai Community Radio: https://www.instagram.com/shcr_radio/
- Eduardo Makoszay's "Tomorrow can take care of itself (ft Nick Land)": https://vimeo.com/223902358/bbf68a469d
- Official "Map Pointz" project: https://www.instagram.com/map_pointz/
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