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Tommy Tse @tommytse.bsky.social · 2d

📚 Book Launch | Thinking Through Fashion🌟Join editors Agnès Rocamora & Anneke Smelik in conversation w/ Tommy Tse, Roberto Filippello, Diego Semerene, and Jane Tynan. Expect lively dialogue on fashion, theory & culture.
🗓14 Nov 2025 | 15:00–16:30 CET
📍UB D2.08 (UvA Library) & Zoom
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Tommy Tse @tommytse.bsky.social · 26d

hahahaaaa brilliant!

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Tommy Tse @tommytse.bsky.social · Sep 12

Over 2 days we hosted Prof. Alf Gunvald Nilsen at UvA - Packed workshop on turning a PhD into a book, leaving young scholars energised; Lecture on the “Southern interregnum” - elites reanimate neoliberalism, while protests reshape futures across the Global South. #ERC #CAFP #ASCA #GlobalAfrica

Tommy Tse @tommytse.bsky.social · Sep 12

🚨 Postdoc Alert! 🚨 Join ERC project China (Africa) Fashion Power @uvahumanities.bsky.social U of Amsterdam Media Studies/ASCA. Ethnography in Guangzhou’s fashion hubs + digital sustainability strategies. 9-mo contract (extendable 6 - 12-mo). Apply by 30 Sept 2025 👉 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — Creativity, Authenticity, and Cultural Mediation: Ethnography of China-Africa Fashion Trade and Cons

The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) currently has a vacant Postdoc position as part of the ERC-funded research project Fashioning Power through South-South Interaction: Re-thinking Creat...

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Tommy Tse @tommytse.bsky.social · Sep 1

🌟We are thrilled to present this semester’s #UvA #ASCA #GlobalAfricaSeminar lineup! Join us for a series of fascinating discussions featuring renowned scholars from around the world (details in the poster). Drinks & snacks will be served!
#ERC #ChinaAfricaFashionPower
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Sam Chan 陳力深 @liksamchan.bsky.social · Jul 4

✨ Digital Intimacies 11: The Love of Machines is here!

Explore how machines reshape intimacy. Submission deadline: 29 Aug 2025.

Join the conversation: 🖥️🤖❤️
👉 digitalintiamcies11.wordpress.com

#digint11 #TheLoveOfMachines

Digital Intimacies 11

The Love of Machines

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Tommy Tse @tommytse.bsky.social · Jun 28

📣New Pub! Pls share 🗯️ What do forgotten clothes say about us—and fashion’s future? In #EJCS, we explore 21 HK men’s “limbo wardrobes” to rethink waste, value & fashion competence.🍀 What if sustainability not begins with buying less, but knowing what we keep? ⬇️👇🏻
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Tommy Tse @tommytse.bsky.social · Jun 21

✨ That’s a wrap on our #ASCA #GlobalAfrica book salon with Dr. Andrea Pollio’s “Silicon Elsewhere” and Dr. Maria Repnikova’s “China’s Image-Making in Africa”, moderated by Dr. Carwyn Morris. We ended with Hangfeng Chen’s poetic film “I Swam to Africa in My Dream”. #ERC #UvA #ChinaAfricaFashionPower

Tommy Tse @tommytse.bsky.social · Jun 14

Our #ChinaAfricaFashionPower team had such a great experience at the Africa-Asia 3 ConFest at Universite Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal. Salute to the amazing #IIAS team who spent over a year to put these meaningful collaborations together. #ERC #ASCA #UvAMediaStudies
#GoréeIsland #HouseOfSlaves

Tommy Tse @tommytse.bsky.social · Jun 4

@carwynmorris.bsky.social @andretwp.bsky.social @uvahumanities.bsky.social

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Tommy Tse @tommytse.bsky.social · Jun 4

📢 Upcoming Global Africa Seminar @Rm0.16, BG1, Univ of Amsterdam. Join us on 20 Jun | 15:00 – 16:30 CEST. Speakers: Dr. Andrea Pollio (Turin) & Dr. Maria Repnikova (GSU). Moderated by Dr. Carwyn Morris
Zoom link: uva-live.zoom.us/j/85202106220
Details: www.chinaafricafashionpower.org/event-detail...

ASCA Global Africa Seminar Series Event #4 | CAPF

The ASCA Global Africa Reading group is delighted to announce the details of our fourth and final seminar event for this academic semester. For our final session, we will be having a book salon. This ...

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European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · Mar 22

In "The cloak of creativity", Pei-Sze Chow and Claudio Celis Bueno critique the ways ‘creativity’ is harnessed to justify a sense of urgency around the adoption of artificial intelligence tools in creative work. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Tommy Tse @tommytse.bsky.social · Apr 12

In today’s #ASCA #GlobalAfrica 3rd research seminar, Dr. Seyram Avle (UMass Amherst) and Dr. Wei Wang’s (UvA) talks offered a nuanced exploration of Afro-Sino technological entanglements, urging a critical reassessment of dominant tech narratives and their implications for global futures.
#ERC #CAFP

Dr. Seyram Avle (UMass Amherst) delivered a compelling talk titled “Other Futures? Afro-Sino Entanglements in the Digital Age.” Drawing from her multi-sited ethnographic research across Africa, China, and the United States, she critically examined prevailing narratives that champion digital technologies as universal solutions for a better life. Dr. Avle challenged this optimism by highlighting the often-overlooked consequences of such technologies, including environmental degradation, excessive consumption, pervasive datafication, and a constrained imagination regarding alternative technological futures.

Complementing this perspective, Dr. Wei Wang (UvA) presented “Data Grabbing or Deep Datafication? Rethinking SHEIN’s Data Colonialism.” His talk delved into the inner workings of SHEIN, the China-based e-commerce giant and the world’s largest online-only fast fashion retailer. Through interviews with SHEIN employees and suppliers, Dr. Wang illuminated the complexities of platform capitalism. He shed light on the practical challenges faced by SHEIN’s data analysts during multi-level data processing, revealing the intricate dynamics and limitations of the company’s data-centric operations.

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Tommy Tse @tommytse.bsky.social · Apr 2

The 3rd #ASCA #GlobalAfrica seminar “Afro-Sino Tech Futures” will be held on 11 Apr 2025 (3 - 4:30pm, CEST). Seyram Avle (UMass Amherst) & Jupiter Wei Wang (UvA) will present in person. You can also join us on Zoom (QR code below). Drinks & snacks @ the networking session - see you there! #ERC #CAFP

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Tommy Tse @tommytse.bsky.social · Mar 12

The 2nd #ASCA #GlobalAfrica seminar “Global Africa/Global China” will be held on 28 Mar 2025 (3 - 4:30pm, CET). Miriam Driessen (Oxford) & Nicholas Loubere (Lund) will come to Ams in person. You can also join us on Zoom (QR code below). Drinks & snacks @ the networking session - see you there! #ERC

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Tommy Tse @tommytse.bsky.social · Feb 21

See you all this summer at our panel “Interdependence, autonomy and friction in inter-Asian fashion, craft and design economies”, in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand from July 23 to 25 2025!

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#InterAsiaCulturalStudies #IACS2025Conference
#WalailakUniversity
#NakhonSiThammarat

Program – IACS2025

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Tommy Tse @tommytse.bsky.social · Feb 10

Wrapping up this extraordinary journey to Naples, where we have experimented all the creative twists & thrills of academic writing together. Not only calming our monkey mind, the unique writing space also reworks its contours: the triangles and squares, circles and holes, lines and dots. #ERC #CAFP

Tommy Tse @tommytse.bsky.social · Jan 30

🌟💡Join our 1st #ASCA #GlobalAfrica seminar event this year: “Building Futures, Shaping Resistance: Nairobi in Focus” (In-person only)!
Speakers: Dr. Elisa Tamburo (Harvard/Oxford) & Fairuzah Atchulo (UvA)
Time: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 (3-4:30pm CET) at Rm D1.18A, OMHP 4-6, 1012 CN Amsterdam.
#ERC #CAFP

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Tommy Tse @tommytse.bsky.social · Dec 26

It’s been an awesome year in different cities, with so many of you. Will hold these memories dear to my heart, and keep creating more in 2025. 🙂🌸🎄
#HK #Shenzhen #London #Maputo #Taipei #Guangzhou #Shanghai #Basel #Zurich #Pretoria #Surabaya #Porto #Nairobi #Edinburgh #Amsterdam #MerryXmas24
#HNY25

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Tommy Tse @tommytse.bsky.social · Dec 21

Thank you International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)! It’s my pleasure being part of the IIAS Board and in particular, joining the ICAS 13 Conf-Fest in Surabaya, Indonesia this summer. See you all in Dakar, Senegal next June! #MerryChristmas #IIAS #Africa–AsiaANewAxisofKnowledge #11-14June2025

Tommy Tse @tommytse.bsky.social · Dec 11

The book “It’s My Party” is Open Acces, see below:
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It’s My Party

This book is unique in focusing on just one band from one city – but the story of Tat Ming Pair, in so many ways This is an open access book.

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Tommy Tse @tommytse.bsky.social · Dec 11

This will be a seminal book on the politics of Hong Kong pop music & its colonial, postcolonial & recolonial trajectories thru the analytical optics of Tatming Pair 達明一派, the legendary experimental Cantopop duo. Such a touching talk - congrats @jeroendekloet.bsky.social Yiu Fai & Leonie!
#ERCResCue

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Jeroen de Kloet @jeroendekloet.bsky.social · Dec 8

Let my first post here be more self absorbed: please join our booklaunch on Tatming and the postcolonial politics of pop in Hong Kong

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The Politics of Pop: Tat Ming Pair

To celebrate the publication of the book It’s My Party: Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong, the authors Yiu Fai Chow, Jeroen de Kloet, and Leonie Schmidt, will b...

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Tommy Tse @tommytse.bsky.social · Dec 8

The 2nd article is featured in a landmark special issue on platforms & cultural production:

Tse et al. (2024) “China as data coloniser? Rethinking cultural production, cultural mediation, and consumer agency on Kenyan and Chinese e-commerce platforms”, International Journal of Cultural Studies.

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Tommy Tse @tommytse.bsky.social · Dec 8

2024 has been a rewarding year so far, marked by the publication of two articles I’m particularly proud of & would like to share them here:

Tse & Pun (2024). “Infrastructural capitalism in China: Alibaba, its corporate culture & three infrastructural mechanisms,” Global Media and China.

Infrastructural capitalism in China: Alibaba, its corporate culture and three infrastructural mechanisms - Tommy Tse, Ngai Pun, 2024

Contrasting existing scholarship in ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’, this article builds on the theorisation of infrastructural capitalism as an emergi...

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