Brad Weslake
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, NYU Shanghai • https://bweslake.org/
Joseph Tainter, The Collapse of Complex Societies
September 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Joseph Tainter, The Collapse of Complex Societies
We stand in solidarity with the penguins.
April 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
We stand in solidarity with the penguins.
Excellent guesses—Darwin it was.
January 31, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Excellent guesses—Darwin it was.
From Eric Huntington, “Buddhist Cosmology” in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2022. doi.org/10.1093/acre...
January 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
From Eric Huntington, “Buddhist Cosmology” in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2022. doi.org/10.1093/acre...
I'm friends with one of the provosts who oversees IT and I could barely resist emailing him to ask how his night is going.
December 30, 2024 at 4:44 AM
I'm friends with one of the provosts who oversees IT and I could barely resist emailing him to ask how his night is going.
An NYU student really levelled up on this tonight, managing to find an unsecured email list that goes to all faculty and everyone in IT. In the five minutes it took me to auto-filter the list to trash, five professors had already unwittingly replied to 10,000+ people... no doubt it's ongoing.
December 30, 2024 at 4:37 AM
An NYU student really levelled up on this tonight, managing to find an unsecured email list that goes to all faculty and everyone in IT. In the five minutes it took me to auto-filter the list to trash, five professors had already unwittingly replied to 10,000+ people... no doubt it's ongoing.
Counterpoint—this is the ideal nap, now you are ready to go dance all night.
December 29, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Counterpoint—this is the ideal nap, now you are ready to go dance all night.
Many more examples (with high-resolution images) in Gillian Riley, “Eat Your Words! Seventeenth-Century Edible Letterforms” in Gastronomica, Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter 2001, pp. 45-59. doi.org/10.1525/gfc....
December 29, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Many more examples (with high-resolution images) in Gillian Riley, “Eat Your Words! Seventeenth-Century Edible Letterforms” in Gastronomica, Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter 2001, pp. 45-59. doi.org/10.1525/gfc....
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Niche topic, but jiazazhi, one of the few large storefronts on the Chinese mainland still selling a wide variety of art books and zines, just got closed for rectification. Based on the tone, seems like it's permanent. Not shocking, but still depressing
假杂志图书馆整修公告
勿走空
mp.weixin.qq.com
December 23, 2024 at 9:34 PM
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Another is Feng Li (冯立), Good Night.
Feng Li ╱ Good Night
In 2017, when we made photobook White Night for Feng Li for the first time, he brought plenty of photographs to our studio. We were immediately shocked by his color photos. As a result, the black-and-...
jiazazhistore.com
December 23, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Another is Feng Li (冯立), Good Night.
Some of the most beautiful books I have purchased since moving to China are published by Jiazazhi. One favourite is Chen Zhe (陈哲), Bees & The Bearable (蜜蜂 & 可承受的).
Bees & The Bearable — Chen Zhe 陈哲
Bees & The Bearable蜜蜂 & 可承受的 Presented as a layered notebook weaving in and out of images and texts, Bees & The Bearable restores Chen Zhe’s...
zheis.com
December 23, 2024 at 9:22 PM
Some of the most beautiful books I have purchased since moving to China are published by Jiazazhi. One favourite is Chen Zhe (陈哲), Bees & The Bearable (蜜蜂 & 可承受的).
To solve problems like this:
December 23, 2024 at 7:12 PM
To solve problems like this:
You think your life should get better, I think you should suffer and die, we agree that something must change.
December 22, 2024 at 7:08 PM
You think your life should get better, I think you should suffer and die, we agree that something must change.
Scandalous that “Confucius for Trump?“ was addressed before “Funeral strippers?”
December 22, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Scandalous that “Confucius for Trump?“ was addressed before “Funeral strippers?”