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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