Reposted by Muyao Jiang 姜沐尧matthew ellis @matthiasellis.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Stumbled across this short essay on Stuart Hall and conjunctural analysis from an edited collection and boy, I could have used this earlier! A must-read for everyone who thinks about the present while trying to avoid the methodological risks that entails. Two links in replies: 192
Reposted by Muyao Jiang 姜沐尧eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown": 「其實地上本沒有路,走的人多了,也便成了路。」 -魯迅,故鄉 #everynightapoem 7604180
Reposted by Muyao Jiang 姜沐尧Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 27/09/2025this is real, and only $111! 0153
Reposted by Muyao Jiang 姜沐尧New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 08/09/2025In NLR 154, Aaron Benanav develops his framework for a post-capitalist social order: ‘From a technical standpoint, there may be no single optimal answer. But from an economic and political perspective, a choice must still be made.’ newleftreview.org/issues/ii154... 0106
Reposted by Muyao Jiang 姜沐尧New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Kevin Gray on the rise of the far right in South Korea, in NLR 154: ‘The political system remained prey to polarization, anti-incumbency and popular dissatisfaction, with the electorate both ‘deeply’ and ‘evenly’ divided, as in the US.’ newleftreview.org/issues/ii154... 191
Reposted by Muyao Jiang 姜沐尧Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social · 05/07/2025( h/t @poetryisnotaluxury.bsky.social ) 031
Reposted by Muyao Jiang 姜沐尧Lin Zhang @linzhang.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Please check out @adiray.bsky.social's very timely piece proposing a post colonial critical political economy approach to studying platforms and digital technologies, contesting the Asian developmental model of leapfrogging. Another wonderful article from our social media+society special issue. 152
Reposted by Muyao Jiang 姜沐尧Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 09/06/2025I do appreciate that people are getting a look at what I think of as the “real L.A.” There’s garbage and traffic and people from all over and flowers and freeways and the best food you ever ate. And every day you see something you didn’t know was possible. 624119
Reposted by Muyao Jiang 姜沐尧Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 06/06/2025The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power? 276109042399
Reposted by Muyao Jiang 姜沐尧Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Lee Jae-myung, the South Korean politician who climbed the fence of the parliament to get inside and vote against martial law, has been elected president. Pretty cooool 205246034212
Reposted by Muyao Jiang 姜沐尧Christian Fuchs @fuchschristian.bsky.social · 17/04/2025onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.... @iamcr.org @jackqiu.bsky.social A new IAMCR handbook on Digital Labour Studies... 0167
Reposted by Muyao Jiang 姜沐尧Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Every billionaire is a policy failure, every billionaire who owns media a threat to democracy 3533133
Reposted by Muyao Jiang 姜沐尧Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social · 22/02/2025A worrying but somehow not surprising trend in Machine Learning 143
Reposted by Muyao Jiang 姜沐尧Louise Matsakis @lmatsakis.bsky.social · 13/01/2025NEW: TikTok users are protesting a potential ban by joining Red Note, aka Xiaohongshu, another Chinese app entirely in Mandarin. “I would rather stare at a language I can't understand than to ever use a social media [platform] that Mark Zuckerberg owns,” said one. www.wired.com/story/red-no...wired.comWith a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’Some say they joined Xiaohongshu, which translates to "little red book," to spite the US government after a ban on TikTok became more likely. 22654180