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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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/

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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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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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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In this episode: Facebook meme page backstage gossip, Hong Kong protest field recordings, secret chat group anti-Zuck strikes, post-internet anthropology zingers, and the original formulation of #maplewave.

Vaping gurgles and keyboard taps unavoidable given the recording circumstances.

LINKS: - Deathnography Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/deathnography/ - Quarry Bay's Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/quarrybay - Esoteric Asian Memes: https://www.facebook.com/esotericasianmemes/ - Lettuce Dog's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lettucedogmemes/

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In this episode: uninformed opinions on Hong Kong's something-colonial identity, Wan Chin fandom, attempts at triggering Yuk Hui, and a broad sweeps over the city's political spectrum beyond the Umbrella Movement.

Background noises courtesy of recording this thing over a total distance of 24,518 km.

LINKS: - Tommy Cheung's article on Wan Chin: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/AEDS-07-2015-0032  - Laika's take on Hong Kong's exit: https://jacobitemag.com/2017/09/23/colonialism-hong-kong-exit/  - Bruce Gilley's defense of colonialism: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/colonialism-academic-article-bruce-gilley-threats-violence-published-withdrawn-third-world-quarterly-a7996371.html  - Yuk Hui on NRx: http://www.e-flux.com/journal/81/125815/on-the-unhappy-consciousness-of-neoreactionaries/

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In this episode: sharing some real good Chinese documentaries, piling hot takes on the Warkgate, being cynical about the China Quarterly fuck-up, and the usual dose of having no clue.

We're getting better at this, except for Josh who thought speakers were better than headphones.

LINKS: - Life After Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GELAclq9CQE  - McKenzie Wark on Wang Hui: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3345-wang-hui-on-china-s-twentieth-century  - Brian Hioe on McKenzie Wark: http://newbloommag.net/2017/08/23/wark-wang-left-orientalism/  - China Quarterly: http://www.chinoiresie.info/china-foray-into-academia-beyond-borders/

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