Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤
@hyoyoonkang.bsky.social
I write and teach critical intellectual property, theories, law & humanities & history of science in the UK university titanic. Mostly unserious here. Private account.
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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 ⬇️
Please find below the programme, dates for your diary, registration links ⬇️
Happy this is happening, hope to see many of you IP and IP related nerds online!
I love the hedge-roofed bench in front of our house - the hedge cut shelters from rain and sun.
November 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I love the hedge-roofed bench in front of our house - the hedge cut shelters from rain and sun.
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On AI’s ‘mediocrity trap’ — experiments indicates that while AI helps the less skilled make something passable, the highly skilled don’t use it to produce something better than they could have; they produce something ok, but lose motivation to make it great. www.jin-li.org/uploads/1/1/...
November 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM
On AI’s ‘mediocrity trap’ — experiments indicates that while AI helps the less skilled make something passable, the highly skilled don’t use it to produce something better than they could have; they produce something ok, but lose motivation to make it great. www.jin-li.org/uploads/1/1/...
Yoon is back with this punctum 🤍
“Music is the mirror of what is lost.”
— Pascal Quignard, Abysses
(trans. Chris Turner)
— Pascal Quignard, Abysses
(trans. Chris Turner)
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Yoon is back with this punctum 🤍
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"Your job as an organizer was to find out what it was that people wanted to be different...and then to persuade people that it mattered...This is not the same thing as persuading people that the thing itself matters: they usually know it does. The task is to persuade people that they matter."
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"Your job as an organizer was to find out what it was that people wanted to be different...and then to persuade people that it mattered...This is not the same thing as persuading people that the thing itself matters: they usually know it does. The task is to persuade people that they matter."
in my ideal alternative life I would has been a dancer who doesn’t need money
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
in my ideal alternative life I would has been a dancer who doesn’t need money
This: “they [the students] also have to care about themselves, enough to believe in their own significance.”
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This: “they [the students] also have to care about themselves, enough to believe in their own significance.”
USS (UK academics’ pension) really sucks - am sure that there are calculations of why putting so much of employer’s and employee’s contributions end up something like £80 a week after retirement but in any case with inflation adjustment etc this is not even viable
November 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
USS (UK academics’ pension) really sucks - am sure that there are calculations of why putting so much of employer’s and employee’s contributions end up something like £80 a week after retirement but in any case with inflation adjustment etc this is not even viable
one doctrinal distinction I really like (yes sometime I like legal doctrinal hairspliittinngs bec they are so philosophical) is the difference btw novelty and non-obviousness in patent law
November 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM
one doctrinal distinction I really like (yes sometime I like legal doctrinal hairspliittinngs bec they are so philosophical) is the difference btw novelty and non-obviousness in patent law
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Indeed, the worst academics rehearse the same idea ad infinitum and then say/write "As I have argued elsewhere."
November 26, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Indeed, the worst academics rehearse the same idea ad infinitum and then say/write "As I have argued elsewhere."
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can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
Gift to the mum of the boy (ours) for his birthday
November 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Gift to the mum of the boy (ours) for his birthday
how do people spend time writing something so … obvious. don’t get they get bored with variations of their own theme
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
how do people spend time writing something so … obvious. don’t get they get bored with variations of their own theme
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C'est aujourd'hui que paraît l'ouvrage 'Expérimenter, conserver, transmettre. La collection d'instruments scientifiques de Lausanne, du XVIIIe à nos jours', par Jérôme Baudry et Yohann Guffroy @yguffr.bsky.social, avec la collaboration de Ion-Gabriel Mihailescu ! www.epflpress.org/produit/1621...
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
C'est aujourd'hui que paraît l'ouvrage 'Expérimenter, conserver, transmettre. La collection d'instruments scientifiques de Lausanne, du XVIIIe à nos jours', par Jérôme Baudry et Yohann Guffroy @yguffr.bsky.social, avec la collaboration de Ion-Gabriel Mihailescu ! www.epflpress.org/produit/1621...
Merz should not travel
The Mallorca rule applies here too: if you can't function outside of Bödefeld-Schmallenberg, just stay in fucking Bödefeld-Schmallenberg. Not like the rest of the world is jonesing for a visit from some of the least fun people on the planet.
November 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Merz should not travel
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The Mallorca rule applies here too: if you can't function outside of Bödefeld-Schmallenberg, just stay in fucking Bödefeld-Schmallenberg. Not like the rest of the world is jonesing for a visit from some of the least fun people on the planet.
November 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The Mallorca rule applies here too: if you can't function outside of Bödefeld-Schmallenberg, just stay in fucking Bödefeld-Schmallenberg. Not like the rest of the world is jonesing for a visit from some of the least fun people on the planet.
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“exiting the market”
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
“exiting the market”
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I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
We exist and we are close to burn out (but workload says we are still under loaded)
if your press asks for names, give 6 to 8--NOT the biggest, most senior stars in your field. None of them will do it. part of the problem is that the ppl best poised are "mid-career"--i.e. have a book, tenure. TWIST: the mid-career folx, IF THEY EXIST, are so fucking overloaded I can't even tell you
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
We exist and we are close to burn out (but workload says we are still under loaded)
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are you fucking serious
November 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
are you fucking serious
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People scratching their heads about Thiel and Greenland but that is because stuck in an old model of international politics. This is neoroyalism rather than westphalia.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 AM
People scratching their heads about Thiel and Greenland but that is because stuck in an old model of international politics. This is neoroyalism rather than westphalia.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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“The former ANU vice-chancellor’s golden handshake means that her new annual salary will be more than the total annualised savings ANU sought from the proposal to disestablish the ANU School of Music.”
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/911946...
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/911946...
More details about ANU former vice-chancellor payments released
'In accordance with her entitlements under her contract.'
www.canberratimes.com.au
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
“The former ANU vice-chancellor’s golden handshake means that her new annual salary will be more than the total annualised savings ANU sought from the proposal to disestablish the ANU School of Music.”
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/911946...
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/911946...
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"Working Knowledge: A Simon Schaffer Reader" -- Edited by Charlotte Bigg, John Tresch, and Simon Werrett
@uchicagopress.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
@uchicagopress.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
November 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"Working Knowledge: A Simon Schaffer Reader" -- Edited by Charlotte Bigg, John Tresch, and Simon Werrett
@uchicagopress.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
@uchicagopress.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Spontaneous in-class assignment: "Explain situationships to Guy Debord."
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Spontaneous in-class assignment: "Explain situationships to Guy Debord."
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‘Gutenberg seems to have had a habit of falling out with people.’
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social) on a biography of the printer told through his books.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social) on a biography of the printer told through his books.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Smyth · Slice It Up: Gutenberg’s Great Invention
Gutenberg remains unknowable: an implied but not a felt presence. This is true for all but a small number of 15th-...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
‘Gutenberg seems to have had a habit of falling out with people.’
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social) on a biography of the printer told through his books.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social) on a biography of the printer told through his books.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Very good. EU member states are obliged to recognise same sex marriages of EU citizens who have exercised free movement rights.
CJEU, free movement law/LGBT rights
New judgment: Member States (in this case Poland) are obliged to recognise same sex marriages of EU citizens who have exercised free movement rights curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...
New judgment: Member States (in this case Poland) are obliged to recognise same sex marriages of EU citizens who have exercised free movement rights curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...
November 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Very good. EU member states are obliged to recognise same sex marriages of EU citizens who have exercised free movement rights.