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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤

@hyoyoonkang.bsky.social

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I write and teach critical intellectual property, theories, law & humanities & history of science in the UK university titanic. Mostly unserious here. Private account. hyoyoonkang.com

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · Aug 20

Happy this is happening, hope to see many of you IP and IP related nerds online!

Int Society for the History & Theory of Intellectual Property @ishtip.bsky.social · Aug 20

We are very pleased to announce the 2025/6 ISHTIP Online Seminar Series, which brings together scholars from around the world who explore intellectual property issues from theoretical and historical angles.

Please find below the programme, dates for your diary, registration links ⬇️

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 1h

6.33 train is one big slumber coach, one person just overslept his stop

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 1h

the one who do even without a smartphone, whatsapp etc are the real ones

JoyousPanther @joyouspanther.bsky.social · 5d

[long drag off cigarette] I used to show up to a place at an agreed upon time with the hope my friend would meet me on time.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 2h

Turning the big wide world into an absurd obsessional microcosm

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 2h

Pettiness is a vice.

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 23h

ALSO!

a new open submissions call for an on-going series where you can express you literary beefs ...

details/guidelines here:

oleada.io/publication/...

Oleada - A Submission Platform

A submission platform for small presses and magazines.

oleada.io

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 18h

Not enough time in a week

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 18h

Three quarters of Sundays are now spent on teaching prep oh well

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 18h

🙌👍🤞

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 1d

It’s now Nietzsche & AI etc.

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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 1d

my favorite historical period is that time when books like "Nietsche & Digital Media" or "Plato and the Internet" could unironically be published

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 1d

Non-ironically my favorite genre of writing these days is a syntactically awkward student paper that is nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 1d

The palpable relief of reading a syntactically awkward student paper nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on after having to consume the stale cardboard generalities of a Chat GPT essay.

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 1d

"I’ve found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing."
– Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 1d

I published two pieces on women in China this week! First, a review essay @chinabooksreview.com on two Fang Fang novels, Soft Burial & The Running Flame (tr. Michael Berry). Gendered oppression has persisted during the socialist period and capitalist reforms, despite the CCP's promise of liberation.

No Country for a Woman | China Books Review

Women in China have suffered abuse, silencing and erasure — despite the Communist Party’s slogans about women’s liberation. Two novels by the Wuhan writer Fang Fang show how gendered oppression persis...

chinabooksreview.com

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 1d

Ventured outside for the afternoon for the first time since injury and brrrhhh it’s gotten cold 🍂🍁

Me hiding in the jacket collar wishing I’d have taken a scarf with me

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 2d

dancing frogs are better

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 2d

the brilliant frog subversion spreading across US cities remind me of that raining frog scene in magnolia

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 2d

thanks for all your thoughts.

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 2d

just an update: will go and visit!

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David Menestres @abstracttruth.bsky.social · 2d

Max Roach, Abdullah Ibrahim
Streams of Consciousness (1978)

Max Roach and Abdullah Ibrahim - Streams of Consciousness (Full Album)

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 2d

the overseas tuition fees are exorbitant, the home office visa fees extortionate, and students are working alongside to finance their studies. it's all very hard to square.

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 2d

the financial worries were crushing back then, even more so now with the dismantling of humanistic and critical fields of inquiry... it requires so much courage and conviction to do a grad degree now. and for supervisors, so much heavy burden to co-carry and be responsive to.

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 2d

one is exactly contributing, anxiety about the future, one's place in the world... it seems kind of far away for me now at this point, but omg still so palpable.

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 2d

ventured out gingerly today for the first time to meet a new phd student for their first supervisory meeting, and then the memories of the excitement of starting a phd came flooding back. as well as the memories of the depression, despair, and slump in the third year, trying to figure out what

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 2d

little me always messed the up and left them crumbled and was called back to straighten them out again