I've only recently come across @phenomenalworld.bsky.social but have really enjoyed what I've read to date. Great interview here with Brazilian PT Finance Minister F Haddad. It's got me thinking about looking afresh on similar debates within Korea years back about tax reform and welfare expansion.
Curious if there's much pressure to open them in Korea by the tech-crypto types. At moment, it is all possibly eclipsed by all the AI hype, i imagine. If back in 2018 it was blockchain-everything, now it's that: LJM's 'AI Basic Society,' etc...
Was reading a bit about the hype surrounding prediction markets and relation to crypto. Thought this was a good quote.
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/b...
Choe Sang-Hun has a good update on the long running struggles of Guryong Maul in Seoul’s Gangnam district.
Ignore the link, it is dead.
That project lasted several years, but has since dissappeared so i was unable to find my old posts and archive them. Though i likely posted them on the blog at the time. Hard time for grassroots media in general these days in Hong Kong.
Back in those days, I was also active in an initiative based out of Hong Kong Inmedia called interlocals (dot) net that was led by two close friends and venerable 'progressive localist' activists from Hong Kong. The aim was to aggregrate social movement news between (Asian) social movements.
Scanning my old posts. It is perhaps most useful for charting the fortunes of Korea's migrant trade union movement during those years, alongside a lot of left commentary, precarious worker struggles, etc...
Been doing some digital cleaning. Got rid of an old wordpress account, but also blogged from 2005-2011 at twokoreas.blogspot.com Been thinking about taking it down but there's a lot of links adn stuff there still. Linking here for posterity.
Pro: more people read your work. Con: small ACLS payout. I sympathize!
Could it be the number of open access pubs? They don’t give royalties for those anymore.
That was enjoyable. Feel that it provides a good antitode to those overly standardizing/systematizing takes on conjunctural analysis that feel a bit like 'warmed up' critical realism in Gramscian clothing.
Photos of 4 Palestinian geographers killed by Israel: Abdel Nasser Mustafa Salim al-Saqqa, Ali Taysir al-Rantisi, Naim Salman Mohammed Baroud, Wiesam Ali Essa. See https://rememberinggazascholars.org/the-scholars/?q=geography&directory_type=post-your-need&sort=title-asc
I searched under 'geography' when first exploring the site, and Wiesam Essa appeared alongside Abdel Nasser Mustafa Salim al-Saqqa, Ali Taysir al-Rantisi and Naim Salman Mohammed Baroud: 4 Palestinian geographers killed by Israel since 7 October 2023 rememberinggazascholars.org/the-scholars...
Includes our UoM-CARA fellow colleague Wiesam Essa. We’d often joke about the Manchester weather. Colleagues had found another post for him when his university and apartment was bombed in Jan 2024.
Hmm. Works for me on desktop but on my mobile phone it says page doesn't exist...
Anyone remember ZNET? Back in the mid 2000s I wrote a number of articles there on South Korea about migrant labour, precarious work, free trade agreements, and more. They were offline for years and I didn't save any copies. The site is back up so I've downloaded them and put them up on academia.
Sounds like he should have published in Telos
Weird. Thought he was more the Rene Girard type.
Here's another article. Both of these press articles depict requests for bargaining as a 'flood' but in reality there's not been so many actual bargaining processes started (as both articles also say when you get past the headlines).
I might add that this is something (damage claims) that Susan Kang and I have looked at in previous work. It is really an awful practice that needs to be put in the dustbin. The Yellow Envelope Law should hopefully correct for it. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Although this is from the conservative press, there's still some good details here (slightly obscure) about how it can help to address there terrible practice of suing workers for taking part in industrial action.
Sounds like interesting work.
a philosophical anthropology: that is, a continual refinding of a putatitive wise, virtuous intelligence at the heart of the state. Not unlike Weber's own anchoring of the bougeouis subject noted by Karl Lowith many years ago. It feels old hat so it is nice to have a different focus.
Author's website notes that it is "part of a larger intellectual project of de-centering the bureaucrats and industrialists who have anchored our histories of East Asian development." I definetly share the project. I often feel that the developmental state literature is stuck repeating...
If Fordism characterised the mid-20th century, do we now live under Muskism?
We discuss w/ the authors of "Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed"
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Some great visualizations here. Need to do this for similar East Asia — US networks.
