Cursed With Good Ideas CWGI

The nineteenth episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, sixty-six minutes of rapid-fire meme studies takes with hosts Dino Chang and Gabriele de Seta riffing off over Idil Galip's recent ventures.
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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The eighteenth episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, eighty-eight minutes of feedback loops with Asa Roast, Dino Chang and Gabriele de Seta nerding out about Dylan Levi King's work.
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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A special crossover episode brought to you by CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS and Deathnography, one hundred and eight minutes of call-in show with Dino Chang, Gabriele de Seta, Patrick Harrison, and Henry Lee answering your questions and giving advice to Young Men.
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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The seventeenth episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, ninety-three minutes of collaborative filtering with Dino Chang, Gabriele de Seta, Patrick Harrison, and Asa Roast asking uninformed questions to Nick Seaver.
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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The fifteenth episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, seventy-one minutes of socio-technical assemblage unpacking with Anaïs Bloch, Dino Chang, Gabriele de Seta, Patrick Harrison, and Nicolas Nova.
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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The fourteenth episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, seventy-seven minutes of urban fieldwork reminiscences with Asa Roast, Dino Chang, Gabriele de Seta, Leif, and Patrick Harrison.
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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