Cursed With Good Ideas

CWGI #11: At the Institute for Findom Research (with Nel)

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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CWGI #10: Wuhan, Different Everyday! (with Ge Yulu)

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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CWGI #9: Surviving a PhD dissertation (with Asa Roast)

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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CWGI #8: Shanghai and the aesthetics of failure (with Katy Roseland)

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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CWGI #7: Taiwanese New Age (with Paul Farrelly)

The seventh (but eight really) episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, sixty-eight minutes of spiritual communion with Dr. Paul J. Farrelly (Capital Academic Advisory) and hosts Dino Chang & Gabriele de Seta.
In this episode: Taiwanese campus folk, new age religiosity, spiritual practices, vintage magazine Tumblr.
Occasional ambient hiss added for a more lo-fi summer vibe.
LINKS:- Paul J. Farrelly's website: https://www.pauljfarrelly.com/ - Capital Academic Advisory: https://www.academics.asia/ - Paul's essay on Terry Hu and New Age religion in Taiwan: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-xGNvVh2owzQ0NSVmxaSFZ6U00/view - Paul's "Altered Statuses" Tumblr: https://altered-statuses.tumblr.com/
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CWGI #6: Peppa's garbage field (with Gong)

The sixth episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, seventy-three minutes of gonzo sinology with Gong (Vice China) and hosts Jonathan Burrow, Joshua Cader, Dino Chang & Gabriele de Seta.
In this episode: Vice in China, the post-wall generation, the end of subcultures, Peppa the Pig and Dongbei thug life.
Reverbs and traffic ambience all mixed-in for an optimal multi-sited experience.
LINKS:- S.T.H's article on post-wall Chinese youth: http://www.vice.cn/read/time-for-generation-wall - Vice China documentary on independent comics: http://www.vice.cn/read/comics-infinite-full-version - The "This is a fucking paradise" documentary series: http://www.vice.cn/show/this-is-a-fucking-paradise - Vice China article on Peppa the Pig : http://www.vice.cn/read/peppa-thug-pig-is-lost-control-again
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CWGI #5: On creative & uncreative writing (with John & Tito)

The fifth episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, sixty-six minutes of snappy takes on creative writing with John and Tito (Melbourne, Australia) and hosts Jonathan Burrow, Joshua Cader, Dino Chang & Gabriele de Seta.
In this episode: academic exploitation, indifference & repetition, ethnographic spy novels, and the politics of humor.
Pristine production courtesy of an institutional recording studio in a secret location.
LINKS:- Kenneth Goldsmith's "Uncreative Writing": https://www.amazon.co.uk/Uncreative-Writing-Kenneth-Goldsmith - Mark Hobart's writings: http://www.criticalia.org/bibliography---mark-hobart/ - Maurice Bloch's essays: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/essays-on-cultural-transmission-9781845202873/ - The anthropologist as stand-up comedian: http://sciencenordic.com/researcher-who-became-stand-comic
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CWGI #4: Indian underground hip-hop (with Pradip Sarkar)

The fourth episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, seventy-five minutes of underground hip-hop ethnography with Pradip Sarkar (Melbourne, Australia) and hosts Joshua Cader, Dino Chang & Gabriele de Seta.
In this episode: Mumbai slum beats, Kolkata cityscapes, local technologies of production, self-exoticizing appropriations and global aspirations.
Uneven audio encoding quality courtesy of Australian broadband and failing batteries.
LINKS:- Mere Gully Mein - DIVINE feat. Naezy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bK5dzwhu-I - Cizzy - Kolkatar Rasta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VJcZ_RukDI - Prabh Deep x Sez On The Beat - 'G' Maane (Explicit): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfTtQypf38M - Feyago ft. Tarak Das Baul - Baul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ugceWGnw_I
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