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School of Cities @uoftcities.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

This Nuit Blanche multimedia installation by @utoronto.ca Dept. of History prof. @tonglam.bsky.social brought to life research and photographs undertaken over more than a decade in the urban villages of southern China's Pearl River Delta.

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Tong Lam @tonglam.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Join us for an all-night celebration that translates the city through contemporary art, exploring a key infrastructure of the global economy that sustains everyday life in North America’s largest shipping container market

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Tong Lam @tonglam.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

This book is finally out. My piece is on speculation and concrete punctumbooks.com/titles/the-s... Free download @punctumbooks.bsky.social

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Tong Lam @tonglam.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

No surprise. The US-bound Air Canada lounge at YYZ is relatively quiet this morning

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Tong Lam @tonglam.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

"The mass shooter is the most extreme example of the ongoing mutation of human psychology after decades of the neoliberal promotion of aggressive values" www.e-flux.com/notes/649956...

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New Heroes - Notes - e-flux

Franco Berardi revists the themes of his 2015 book Heroes in light of recent mass shootings.

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Sam Crane @uselesstree.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Collapse is underway

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Tong Lam @tonglam.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I'm in the US for this week, giving talks at Harvard & CU Boulder. The 2 topics, respectively on Cold War extractivism & love stories, offer opportunities to reflect on the limitations of our human-centric worldview amid fleeting geopolitical tensions. Please come by to say hello if you have time.

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Tong Lam @tonglam.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Cookies for thought: saw in my workplace kitchen yesterday

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Gary Swergold MD, PhD @gs314.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

🧪 If I were Canadian PM I would immediately: 1. Create a new $15B science fund 2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada 3. Immediate permanent residency 4. Citizenship after 2 years Overnight a science superpower

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Arunabh Ghosh @arunabhghosh.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Looking forward to the first @fairbankcenter.bsky.social Modern China Lecture of the spring, featuring @tonglam.bsky.social. Let the Ore Speak: Extractivism and China’s Early Cold War Mobilization Wednesday, February 5, 4 PM EST Details: fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/moder...

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Modern China Lecture featuring Tong Lam — Let the Ore Speak: Extractivism and China’s Early Cold War Mobilization – Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Mike Davis in his last interview: “Ruling classes everywhere have no rational analysis...for the immediate future. A small group have more concentrated power over the human future than ever before in human history,& they have no vision, no strategy, no plan” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022...

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Mike Davis, California’s ‘prophet of doom’, on activism in a dying world: ‘Despair is useless’

His warnings of ecological and social breakdown have proved accurate. But with months to live, Davis is anything but defeated

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Tong Lam @tonglam.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Confused proletarian influencers from around the world are now united as memes on Rednote, seemingly becoming even more disoriented in light of their "awakening"

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Tong Lam @tonglam.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

As the year ends in ruins, the new one begins in ruins as well

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Tong Lam @tonglam.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I’m waiting for stores that respectively named Woke and Tankies

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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 21/12/2024

Liu Minhua was among the over a million people who were relocated for the Three Gorges Dam project. when he had to leave his home forever (which would become submerged), he carried on his back the peach tree from home Li Feng took the photo in 2012, but it was first published in 2019

photograph of a Chinese rural villager carrying peach blossom branches in a basket on his back

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Tong Lam @tonglam.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Once considered the end of the world, this site remains barren under the relentless, forbidding wind. Yet, something grows here—a peculiar narrative of colonialism and globalization. It has a subject, yet it unfolds as if driven by a process devoid of agency.

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Tong Lam @tonglam.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

In Roman times, this was considered as the end of the world. This barren site overlooks Africa one the one side and America on the other

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Tong Lam @tonglam.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Let’s round up the usual suspects!

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The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca · 12/12/2024

NGOs and individual experts, including Citizen Lab's @rondeibert.bsky.social, @noura.bsky.social, @penney.bsky.social, and Kate Robertson, urge Canada to reject the UN's draft Convention against Cybercrime in an open letter to @melaniejolycan.bsky.social, Hon Dominic LeBlanc & Hon Arif Virani.

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Tong Lam @tonglam.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

What happened in South Korea is a warning to the US

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The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca · 27/11/2024

“It is happening on the American Amazon site and it is infringing on people’s human rights,” says Jeffrey Knockel speaking about a new report from the Citizen Lab revealing how @Amazon’s US site is restricting shipments of over 17k+ products to multiple countries. www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...

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Amazon called out for censorship by Citizen Lab

The internet watchdog Citizen Lab has called out Amazon for censorship. Researchers at the Citizen Lab say Amazon will not send certain books to countries ruled by authoritarian regimes. The Citizen L...

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