Jeroen de Kloet
@jeroendekloet.bsky.social
Professor of globalisation studies at Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. PI of RESCUE, on resilient cultures in contemporary art, folk and indie music, and queer cinema in mainland China and Hong Kong.
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Boredom is an underrated affect as an impulse for critical work. Jeroen de Kloet is not afraid to say he's bored @jeroendekloet.bsky.social and this is a good thing! Take a read of his important and personal call to revisit creativity, resilience, and else:
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October 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Boredom is an underrated affect as an impulse for critical work. Jeroen de Kloet is not afraid to say he's bored @jeroendekloet.bsky.social and this is a good thing! Take a read of his important and personal call to revisit creativity, resilience, and else:
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How can we save creativity from both its cultural studies critics and state cum capital-sanctioned appropriations?
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A plea for promiscuous creativity - Jeroen de Kloet, 2025
Creativity, along with its associated terms precarity and resilience, is often viewed as a mode of governmentality that drives neoliberalism. Such a critique is...
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October 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
How can we save creativity from both its cultural studies critics and state cum capital-sanctioned appropriations?
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Alicja Kwade @ Taikun
February 15, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Alicja Kwade @ Taikun
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Save the date: Friday 14 February, 15:00-16:30 hours, OMHP D118A. The ASCA Global Africa Seminar presents “Building Futures, Shaping Resistance: Nairobi in Focus”, organized by @tommytse.bsky.social, with speakers Elisa Tamburo (Harvard/Oxford) and Fairuzah Atchulo (UvA). @uvahumanities.bsky.social
January 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Save the date: Friday 14 February, 15:00-16:30 hours, OMHP D118A. The ASCA Global Africa Seminar presents “Building Futures, Shaping Resistance: Nairobi in Focus”, organized by @tommytse.bsky.social, with speakers Elisa Tamburo (Harvard/Oxford) and Fairuzah Atchulo (UvA). @uvahumanities.bsky.social
Oh no…..
The legendary Chinese rock and roll and jazz saxophonist Liu Yuan 刘元 passed away at 64. He was Cui Jian 崔健 saxophonist, he opened the CD Café, a safe haven for rockers and punks in the 1990s, and the East Shore Live Jazz Cafe in Beijing: tw.news.yahoo.com/%E6%85%9F-%E...
December 22, 2024 at 12:19 PM
Oh no…..
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December 16, 2024 at 10:23 PM
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NOW ONLINE: What is the use of limits – and of pushing past them? The NECSUS Autumn 2024 issue presents various perspectives on what #Enough might mean in the field of media studies.
You can read the full issue in #OpenAccess here: necsus-ejms.org/portfolio/au...
You can read the full issue in #OpenAccess here: necsus-ejms.org/portfolio/au...
Autumn 2024_#Enough - NECSUS
Editorial NECSUS by Toni Pape, Martine Beugnet, Greg de Cuir Jr, Ilona Hongisto, Judith Keilbach, Skadi Loist, Maria A. Vélez Serna and Andrea Virginás
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December 11, 2024 at 9:19 AM
NOW ONLINE: What is the use of limits – and of pushing past them? The NECSUS Autumn 2024 issue presents various perspectives on what #Enough might mean in the field of media studies.
You can read the full issue in #OpenAccess here: necsus-ejms.org/portfolio/au...
You can read the full issue in #OpenAccess here: necsus-ejms.org/portfolio/au...
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This will be a seminal book on the politics of Hong Kong pop music & its colonial, postcolonial & recolonial trajectories thru the analytical optics of Tatming Pair 達明一派, the legendary experimental Cantopop duo. Such a touching talk - congrats @jeroendekloet.bsky.social Yiu Fai & Leonie!
#ERCResCue
#ERCResCue
December 11, 2024 at 12:15 PM
This will be a seminal book on the politics of Hong Kong pop music & its colonial, postcolonial & recolonial trajectories thru the analytical optics of Tatming Pair 達明一派, the legendary experimental Cantopop duo. Such a touching talk - congrats @jeroendekloet.bsky.social Yiu Fai & Leonie!
#ERCResCue
#ERCResCue
“Photos cannot capture a span of time, They lock you into the moment. A song is expansion into the past, a photo is finitude. A song is the happy sensation of time, a photo its tragic side. I’ve often thought that one's whole life story could be told only through songs and photos.”
Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux
December 10, 2024 at 2:14 PM
“Photos cannot capture a span of time, They lock you into the moment. A song is expansion into the past, a photo is finitude. A song is the happy sensation of time, a photo its tragic side. I’ve often thought that one's whole life story could be told only through songs and photos.”
Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux
Ernie is in the tree…
December 9, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Ernie is in the tree…
Let my first post here be more self absorbed: please join our booklaunch on Tatming and the postcolonial politics of pop in Hong Kong
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The Politics of Pop: Tat Ming Pair
To celebrate the publication of the book It’s My Party: Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong, the authors Yiu Fai Chow, Jeroen de Kloet, and Leonie Schmidt, will b...
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December 8, 2024 at 10:23 AM
Let my first post here be more self absorbed: please join our booklaunch on Tatming and the postcolonial politics of pop in Hong Kong
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The Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven (Belgium) has a vacancy for an anthropologist (open rank) with regional expertise in Asia. Join our vibrant international community! kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
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Social and cultural anthropologist with regional expertise in Asia (open rank)
We are looking for a social and cultural anthropologist with regional expertise in Asia (open rank)
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November 17, 2024 at 9:58 AM
The Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven (Belgium) has a vacancy for an anthropologist (open rank) with regional expertise in Asia. Join our vibrant international community! kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
#anthropology #job #academica
#anthropology #job #academica