This Nuit Blanche multimedia installation by @utoronto.ca Dept. of History prof. @tonglam.bsky.social brought to life research and photographs undertaken over more than a decade in the urban villages of southern China's Pearl River Delta.
A review of my recent exhibition by Yan Wu schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/night-as-met... @uoftcities.bsky.social @jhievents.bsky.social @utm-hs.bsky.social @jhievents.bsky.social
The official documentation of my site-specific multimedia installation in 2025 Toronto Nuit Blanche
Join us for an all-night celebration that translates the city through contemporary art, exploring a key infrastructure of the global economy that sustains everyday life in North America’s largest shipping container market
This book is finally out. My piece is on speculation and concrete punctumbooks.com/titles/the-s... Free download @punctumbooks.bsky.social
Dystopia
No surprise. The US-bound Air Canada lounge at YYZ is relatively quiet this morning
"The mass shooter is the most extreme example of the ongoing mutation of human psychology after decades of the neoliberal promotion of aggressive values" www.e-flux.com/notes/649956...
Collapse is underway
Usual visitors
I was there in November, but have never seen the city’s real winter. Enjoy your stay!
The circulation of the last one (lower right) is 2 millions
I'm in the US for this week, giving talks at Harvard & CU Boulder. The 2 topics, respectively on Cold War extractivism & love stories, offer opportunities to reflect on the limitations of our human-centric worldview amid fleeting geopolitical tensions. Please come by to say hello if you have time.
Cookies for thought: saw in my workplace kitchen yesterday
This Wednesday at the @fairbankcenter.bsky.social! @tonglam.bsky.social speaking on Extractivism and China's early Cold War Mobilization.
Details here: fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/moder...
looks like another great book from Jie-Hyun Lim - Victimhood Nationalism: History and Memory in a Global Age
cup.columbia.edu/book/victimh...
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If I were Canadian PM I would immediately:
1. Create a new $15B science fund
2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada
3. Immediate permanent residency
4. Citizenship after 2 years
Overnight a science superpower
Looking forward to the first @fairbankcenter.bsky.social Modern China Lecture of the spring, featuring
@tonglam.bsky.social.
Let the Ore Speak: Extractivism and China’s Early Cold War Mobilization
Wednesday, February 5, 4 PM EST
Details: fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/moder...
Mike Davis in his last interview: “Ruling classes everywhere have no rational analysis...for the immediate future. A small group have more concentrated power over the human future than ever before in human history,& they have no vision, no strategy, no plan”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022...
Confused proletarian influencers from around the world are now united as memes on Rednote, seemingly becoming even more disoriented in light of their "awakening"
As the year ends in ruins, the new one begins in ruins as well
I’m waiting for stores that respectively named Woke and Tankies
A quiet Christmas Eve
photograph of a Chinese rural villager carrying peach blossom branches in a basket on his back
Liu Minhua was among the over a million people who were relocated for the Three Gorges Dam project. when he had to leave his home forever (which would become submerged), he carried on his back the peach tree from home
Li Feng took the photo in 2012, but it was first published in 2019
Once considered the end of the world, this site remains barren under the relentless, forbidding wind. Yet, something grows here—a peculiar narrative of colonialism and globalization. It has a subject, yet it unfolds as if driven by a process devoid of agency.
In Roman times, this was considered as the end of the world. This barren site overlooks Africa one the one side and America on the other
