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Source Code
I went last night with friends to see source code, a new American sci fi movie showing in Wuhan. Sicifi films are often parables about complex social issues that cannot be addressed head on. This film was no exception, hard to miss the references in this...
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Fascism
The article reposted below I think gets at some of the factors that make a new and different kind of fascism a distinct possiblity. The author relies on the classical Marxcist definition of fascism and links it to the proccesses of neoliberalization and...
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Life in a petri dish: The challenges of inter-cultural communication
One of the facinating things about living in another culture is the differences in how everyday life is organized. Learning to read your emotional responses to situations is a critical skillset, after all as the alien, you are the square peg in the round...
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This and that
Reading some blogs today...this one struck my fancy http://www.urbanomic.com/pub_collapse6.php "Collapse". and a listing of international conferences. Iliked this list of keynote speaker abstracts: http://extra.shu.ac.uk/transmission/docs/transmission%20keynote%20abstracts.pdf...
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Neoliberalism revisted again...
Understanding the transformations underway in China as well as those occurring back home in the US requires some understanding of neoliberalism and neoliberalization. Spending a week in Seattle and then returning to Wuhan, traveling back and forth from...
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American Fascism and the color line
As a place/event, the United States continues to be shaped by the contradiction between a civic and universal construction of nationality and a blood and soil ethnic construction. In the United States, the racial binary structures social life; the struggle...
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Some thoughts about hate crimes, domestic terror and data
The FBI defines terrorism as "the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives" (Federal Bureau of...
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Back home from here
Watching the debt ceiling crisis unfold via CNN and and CNBC, the NYT and other media available here in China, has been illuminating. It appears to me there is not much difference between the one party state here and there, the exception being that here...
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Defining Fascism
The emergence of the Tea parties with their racially coded appeals and calls for national renewal, the anti-immigrant movement, the growth of patriot militias all underscore fascistic tendencies within the American polity, but without a comprehensive...
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Mapping is serious business
I thought this was interesting, mapping and mapping technologies are instruments of power..whoever makes the map prefigures reality... Illegal mapping hotline fails to ignite interest By Wang Qian (China Daily) Updated: 2011-04-26 08:12 BEIJING - A new...
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From a Berlin bunker to the new world order
As a state form classical fascism ended in a Berlin Bunker in 1945 but as an ideological movement it continues on. There are continuities as well as discontinuities between periods as socially produced space/time is sedimented, never completely disappearing...
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It has been a crazy week
For the last month I have been getting back into the swing of things as the summer winds down. It has been crazy busy at work. We are getting ready for a new software launch with training materials, promotional videos, and power point slides all needing...
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A night out on Lumo Lu
A night out on Lumo Lu. I enjoy all the flashing lights, signs, and the hustle and bustle of the street vendors. It is spring, and really fun to be out clubbing.
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Amsterdam Airport
Not much to say. It is a holiday here, so I am playing around and posting stuff to this blog to see how it works.This image is a link to a photosynth of the airport.
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Funny reading
The future according to Google 2011 April 19 tags: google, humour, image, XKCD by Garry Peterson Some projections about the future from the webcomic XKCD:
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National Holiday Trip to the Three Gorges
Temples, scenic walks with interesting rocks and of course, the dam. It was a fun trip. Just some pictures I took around the dam a couple of weeks ago. The dam was a dam big dam... Very Engineering. The monument fountain was dramatic.
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Summer Palace
I am on my way to Seattle for the AAG, flying out of Beijing. Cheaper to take the train to Beijing and stay in a hotel overnight than to fly. Since we had one whole day here, We visted the Summer palace...very cool.
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took some more pictures
I walked around a little and made some snapshots of Vanke where I live and work. Check out the alblum .