Now listening to Chloe Paberz discussin how artists from #Korea deal with having to constantly justify their #art as both global and simultaneously imbued with some kind of 'Korean-nes', e.g. traditional techniques or styles from Korea. #DIAS2018
“Today I’m gonna talk about Japan, and the first thing you need to know about Japan is that there are a lot of old people, like... a lot” @AnomaV#DIAS2018
Fascinating analysis by @n_azreen of the geography of protest in #Malaysia, with red shirt activity visibly motivated by racist motives, e.g. targeting China Town. #DIAS2018
Second generation Vietnamese youngsters in the Czech Republic face a huge generational gap and call themselves “banana kids”: yellow on the outside and white in the inside. #DIAS2018
Exciting talk by Nurul Azlan on how cybertroopers loyal to the state intervened in dissent in #Malaysia, trying to undermine the #Bersih4 movement (and its hashtag) in seemingly ‘bottom-up’ ways that flanked the red shirt anti-Bersih activities on the ground. #DIAS2018
Now at #DIAS2018: Li Pin discusses how Chinese women’s fandom of queer Thai TV shows might connect with the #nationalism frequently associated with the #LittlePink: nationalists assumed to be (young) women.
Just started a conversation about the gender gap and the dominance of the Silicon Valley model within the startup communities around the world w/ @zanekripe at #DIAS2018! OMG hyped student over here 🙋🏼♀️
I'm not quite sold that a technology like #blockchain, when based in neoliberal assumptions about property and authoritarian ideas of hierarchical government can actually contribute to fairness and justice in society. A paradigm shift would be needed for that, IMHO. #DIAS2018
Alice de Jong is making some very intriguing arguments about #China’s plans for a #socialcredit system and how the idea of social credit sits on top of capitalist ideas of worth. No wonder the whole thing is so popular with the upwardly mobile. #DIAS2018
Tine Vekemans discusses how in the case of the Jain diaspora to feel like one belongs to the community, actual communication does not necessarily need to happen at #DIAS2018