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Theory, Culture & Society @theoryculturesociety.org · 09/10/2026

Event: TCS Research Workshop - 'Intelligence: Computation or Symbolic Form?' - What do we mean by intelligence? Leading thinkers explore computation, symbols, biology, technology and meaning in the age of AI. www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/intelli...

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TCS Research Workshop — Intelligence: Computation or Symbolic Form? — Theory, Culture & Society | Global Public Life

TCS Research Workshop in conjunction with the Vasari Research Centre for Art and Technology

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Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thank you for your hospitality! 😊🎊

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Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Not attending 4s this year but it sounds really interesting! 👍

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Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For more info on the event and tickets www.tickettailor.com/.../digitalh...

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Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Excited to share that I will give my first public talk on the book! Please join if you'd like to hear me talk about it! 🍾✨ My special thanks to @jwyg.bsky.social and @lboungr.bsky.social for organizing this, and to @kingsdh.bsky.social and the Centre for Digital Culture for sponsoring the event.🙏

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Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Deadline: 5PM on October 12, 2026 (Korea Time) I am not affiliated with the hiring department and am currently on sabbatical, so I do not know the details of the position or the search. But for anyone interested, I would be happy to answer general questions about what it is like to work at SNU.

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Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A tenure-track position in STS! The Department of Science Studies at Seoul National University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position (open rank) in Science and Technology Studies, with a scheduled appointment date of March 2027. facultyrecruitment.snu.ac.kr

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Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

and through which we become subjects of the smart city today. @ucpress.bsky.social

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Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

to describe a governmental rationality in which yearnings for development are shaped and asserted through normative visions of desirable futures and through practices that identify spaces, populations, and ways of life as in need of transformation and upgrading

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Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In City in a Future Tense, I argue that answering these questions requires tracing the deeper cultural histories through which technological futures are imagined, desired, negotiated, and contested. I develop a concept of “developmentality”--moving beyond state-centered accounts of developmentalism

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Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

mobilize actions before their promises can be realized. What kinds of aspirations, anxieties, moral imperatives, and forms of expertise generate momentum toward a technology-driven future?

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Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This conceptual flexibility has allowed the promise of smart urbanism to persist despite recurring criticism, unfulfilled expectations, and material consequences. Rather than dismissing such visions as mere 'hype' or 'myth', however, the book asks how technological futures acquire the capacity to

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Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Much like the future itself, the smart city is often presented as a horizon of possibilities: a provisional testbed holding the promise of optimization and constant update, while repeatedly renewing what constitutes its goals, whether sustainability, development, security, or something else.

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Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The book traces the history of Songdo--known as one of the first "smart cities" in the world--and offers a cultural, historical, and locally grounded account of smart urbanism. It begins with a rather simple question: "When, where, and how does a smart city begin?"

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Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The temporality of the book is such that it has been living in my headspace rent-free for almost ten years--I feel relieved and liberated to send it off into the world👋 As of today, the book is available online (for free!) and in print (UCPSAVE30 for discount (www.ucpress.edu/books/city-i...)

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Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Looking forward to welcoming everyone in Seoul! 👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼

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Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Very excited and looking forward to our collaborative learning workshop at SNU! ✨

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Ideas on Fire @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Kudos to Ideas on Fire author Gökçe Günel @drgokcegunel.bsky.social on the release of Floating Power: Energy, Infrastructure, and South-South Relations, out now from @dukepress.bsky.social. 🎊 dukeupress.edu/floating-power #IoFAuthors

Cover of Floating Power, with a white outline of a floating power plant on a blue background

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Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Couldn’t resist 🍜🍙 sushitech-startup.metro.tokyo.lg.jp

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Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Typesets are in✨🥳 and I'm starting to feel that jitter -- this is the LAST chance to make changes before everything is finally set in print. 🫢💦 I am also elated to learn that two scholars whose works have profoundly influenced my thinking throughout this project have written endorsements!

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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

South Korea faces a troubling surge in far-right movements. This talk examines how right-wing groups have exploited generational frustrations and nationalist leanings, mimicking strategies from global far-right networks, including MAGA-style tactics. Featuring Myungji Yang bit.ly/4muZuZD

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Myungji Yang - "Reactionary Politics in South Korea"

Professor Myungji Yang of the University of Hawaii gave this talk to us about recent "Reactionary Politics in South Korea," which is the title of her recently published book. Prof. Yang is an…

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Today on our blog, we talk with Sarah Sharma about her new book "Insufferable Tools" and how the feminist techno-logics she proposes differs from Big Tech Feminism. buff.ly/ElHBMCP

Cover of Insufferable Tools: Feminism Against Big Tech by Sarah Sharma. The cover features an emoji face on the body of a man in a suit. The emoji is wearing sunglasses and laughing. The background fades from bright green to yellow. All text is black, all-caps, and sans-serif. The main title spans the top half of the cover, and the subtitle is below it. The author's name is at the bottom on either side of the suit.

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Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Excited to be part of this new project! 🙌😃

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Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Opening day at Yayoi Kusama Museum in Tokyo #弥生草間　#yayoikusama

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Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Thank you! 🙏🏼 It means a lot for someone who has been reading yours for many years! ☺️

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Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

such as cultivating creative and scientifically minded citizens. The past becomes 'useful' in that sense, which is made to instill a future-oriented disposition in the citizens while legitimating changes imposed on the present (sometimes unpalatable) as 'cultural' and even morally righteous

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Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Here I approach the city space of Gwanghwamun as a critical text that reveals the techniques and technologies of the Korean government that evoke the glory of the nation's past (e.g. King Sejong's statue and innovativeness of Hangul) temporally equated with the ideal goals of the future

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Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

hope you’d enjoy it! 🙏🏼☺️

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May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

As a Board Member of the NBCC, it was a joy to read all these books. Congratulations to the winners and the finalists! 👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉 @bookcritics.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/b...

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Han Kang Among National Book Critics Circle Award Winners

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Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

How often does one receive a hand-written note from an archivist? 🥹👀 It tells me “there is a also a selected list of housing facilities toward the end of this volume” after I just requested a copy of TOC. I’m also struck by the research navigation sys available here @National Diet Library in Japan

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Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Thank you Emily! I am also happy with how the cover turned out ☺️

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Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Pre-order is already available, and the book will also be open-access, with generous support from the UC Berkeley Center for Korean Studies. More soon.

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