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Dang Nguyen
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Researcher of media technologies and infrastructures from below and across Southeast Asia

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Hanging out with my guy, Steve, of Blueworks Vintage Clothing Store.
Dang and Steve stand casually outside a shop called “BLUEWORKS.” Both are wearing caps, denim jeans, and relaxed outfits. Steve leans against the doorframe with arms folded, wearing a plaid shirt and beige shoes. Dang stands with arms crossed, wearing a navy graphic T-shirt, dark loose-fit jeans, colourful sneakers, and round sunglasses. Behind them, the shop window displays patterned shirts, clothing racks, and accessories. The scene has a friendly, easygoing street-style vibe.
November 11, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Messy start to something consequential
A large wall-mounted screen displays a PowerPoint slide titled “What are the necessary components to disagreement?” The left side lists components such as exchange, friction, position taking, and reference to symbolic systems. The right side lists factors that influence productiveness, including humility and stubbornness. The screen shows the PowerPoint interface with slide thumbnails on the left and editing tools on the top ribbon.
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Understanding disagreements
A large wall-mounted screen displays a slide with white text on a black background titled “Scope and content of the disagreement point to different levels.” Below it are three bullet points labelled TECHNICAL, EPISTEMIC, and IDEOLOGICAL, each describing a different type of disagreement. A wall-mounted screen shows a slide with white text on a black background discussing Dascal’s typology and its relevance for understanding disagreements on Wikipedia.
November 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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stay hydrated, everybody
stay hydrated everybody
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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sydney day 2 👋🏻
Dang stands in a stainless-steel elevator taking a mirror selfie. They wear round tortoiseshell glasses, wireless earbuds, a blue CUSHMAN graphic T-shirt tucked into dark, wide-leg Godspeed denim trousers, and a white tote bag over one shoulder. One hand is in their pocket. The lighting reflects softly off the metal walls. a small glass of light-beige soy milk sits on a dark counter, framed by two blue cartons of Just Water. Behind the glass are clear carafes filled with different types of milk, each labelled with printed tags tied with twine.
November 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Now even he is displeased.
Sartre is displeased.
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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matcha mousse dessert
matcha mousse dessert
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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dinner with colleagues
dinner with colleagues
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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gave my paper. went well!
gave my paper went well
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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anyway, it's lunchtime
lunch
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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follow up
follow up follow up follow up follow up
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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first draft
zine first draft
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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We're doing poetry!!
A presentation slide titled “Transform your snippet (content)” offers five approaches for reworking a piece of text. The options listed are: 1) Found poetry—cut out 5–15 words or phrases and rearrange them; 2) Highlight the tension—mark the moment where disagreement appears and cut just that part; 3) Redact—cross out everything except 5–15 key words or phrases; 4) What’s underneath—draw or write what people were really disagreeing about; 5) Make it visual—use shapes, arrows, or drawings to show the structure. At the bottom the slide says “Remember: One approach. One page. 10 minutes.”
November 10, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Some excellent binary deconstruction happening
A presentation slide projected on a large screen reads: “Can (online) public disagreements be knowledge producing?” followed by “Yes AND No – depending on conditions.” The slide lists two points: “1. TODAY: exploring content (meaning) and form (conditions) – DRAFTS” and “2. TOMORROW: structuring and compiling – FINESSING.”
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Setting the agenda: Heather Ford on the history of the wiki studies group and why studying disagreements—in both form and substance—is so important.
A presentation slide displayed on a large screen reads “wikihistories 2025 — Arguing on the internet.” Two bullet points ask: “When can disagreement be knowledge producing?” and “How do platform infrastructures and digital technologies serve or hamper productive disagreement?” A presentation slide titled “What knowledge?” outlines points about public knowledge. The bullet points describe how communities apply rules to determine truth, how truths are public and democratic principles matter, and that rules should be flexible and communally determined.
November 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Hello Sydney! 👋🏻

Reporting from the University of Technology Sydney
Dang stands in a mirrored elevator taking a selfie with a phone. They wear round sunglasses, a grey jacket with the collar slightly upturned, latest drop of Godspeed jeans, and colourful sneakers. The elevator walls are metallic and reflective, and a small screen above shows a TV scene with two people talking. A poster on a beige wall reads “#ThinkSecurely: be cyber smart at UTS.” It features overlapping circles with cybersecurity tips such as “Play your part in stopping cyber-attacks,” “Back up critical files,” “Verify requests for private information,” “Think twice before clicking on links,” and “Protect your passwords.” At the centre is an image of a globe with the words “Virus Alert.” The UTS logo appears at the bottom right.
November 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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You made him sad.
Camus is sad.
November 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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best I can do at my local priceline unfortunately... not sure if this will hold...
Dang holds a bright pink rectangular box of “SlickHair Company Anti-Flyaway Gel Duo.” The packaging features silver embossed text and a white sticker that reads “Free Precision Brush.” The label promises soft definition, hydrating, brushable hold, and a non-crunchy finish. Shelves of other hair products in pink and green packaging are visible in the background.
November 9, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Sorry I forgot to do this—capybara gender reveal (at the airport, teehee).
red capybara revealed
November 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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This turned out to be a good excuse to reread Rancière after not touching his work for, what, half a decade? The books are packed; whether they’ll be read on the plane or in a quiet Sydney coffee shop remains to be seen.
A close-up photo of a hand holding the book Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics by Jacques Rancière, published by Bloomsbury. The book cover features a security camera mounted on a weathered concrete wall, with the title printed vertically in bold red and white text. The image evokes themes of surveillance, visibility, and the politics of perception central to Rancière’s work.
November 8, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Save me from myself
A stylised digital collage titled “Vernacular Geopolitics of the Internet.” The image mimics a retro computer window. On the left is a screenshot of the Vietnamese input software VPSKeys 4.3, showing diacritic options for accented letters such as “á,” “à,” and “â.” On the right, an illustrated desktop scene shows a CRT monitor displaying the Vietnamese phrase “chung cư” (“apartment building”) typed in Microsoft Word, with a potted plant and a keyboard in the foreground. Together, the visuals evoke themes of linguistic infrastructure, localisation, and the everyday labour of making the internet work in Vietnamese contexts.
November 8, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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The horror of rereading your own words and realising you may not have been as clever as you imagined.
A screenshot of a draft academic paper titled “Disagreement as Infrastructural Method: Moral Economies and Digital Equality in Vietnam’s Earning Web” by Dang Nguyen, affiliated with the ADM+S Centre at RMIT University and the School of Information at UC Berkeley. The abstract rethinks online disagreement as a generative mode of knowledge production, drawing on fieldwork with Vietnam’s make-money-online forums and phone-farming communities. It discusses how moral and technical disputes form infrastructures of learning and governance, extending E.P. Thompson, James C. Scott, and Jacques Rancière’s ideas to argue that informal digital economies enact a politics of equality. The paper proposes that acts of infrastructural disagreement constitute a form of distributed politics and infrastructural world-making.
November 8, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Scrambling to finish slides for the Arguing on the Internet workshop at UTS—as I’m boarding another flight in a few hours. Excited and mildly terrified to hang with the Wikipedia crowd for the 1st time, given that the disagreements I’m bringing to the table unfold on forums and semi-secret channels.
A stylised presentation slide with a photograph of a young man sitting in front of computer screens inside a room lined with racks of phones and circuit boards. Over the image, bold yellow text reads “DISAGREEMENT AS INFRASTRUCTURAL METHOD,” with “Dang Nguyen” highlighted above in a yellow box. The typography mixes pixelated retro computer fonts and elegant cursive, evoking 1990s desktop aesthetics with icons for Internet Explorer, email, a floppy disk, and a trash bin along the bottom. A monochrome flyer for a workshop titled “Arguing on the Internet,” scheduled for 10–11 November 2025. Two cartoon speech bubbles with angry faces point fingers at each other beside the title. The text below describes the workshop’s collaborative format—participants read and comment on one another’s papers, contribute to a zine, and meet at UTS's Building 2. The aesthetic is minimal and zine-like, blending humour with academic seriousness.
November 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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What about suspenders?
Baby Dang sitting next to a childhood friend—whose identity is now unclear—on a metal swing in the sun. Baby Dang wears white trousers and red suspenders; the friend, blue denim overalls and a serious expression. The paint on the wall behind them is cracked and pale, throwing soft shadows over the scene. It’s the kind of photograph that feels half-posed, half-accidental: childhood gravity meeting the beginnings of style.
November 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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That is brilliant. Not quite matching yours, but this was A LOT LIVING in Taipei earlier this year (Fujin St, Songshan District).
A LOT LIVING in Taipei
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM