Cloud Poetry

Dante’s Inferno, in no particular order

“Devouring the Other: Cannibalism, translation and the construction of cultural identity”, by Rainer Guldin, 2014

Some articles on the topic of Puritanism in American society

New writing by Asian American women, 1997

The daily goings-on of Yanyan Huang.

By Byung-Chul Han “The days of the other are over in this age of excessive communication information and consumption. What used to be the other as friend, as Eros, or as hell is now indistinguishable from the self and our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything and everyone until there are no boundaries left. The result is a terror of the same lives in which we no longer pursue knowledge, insight, and experience but are instead reduced to the echo chambers and illusory encounters offered by social media. In extreme cases this feeling of disorientation and senselessness is compensated through self harm or even harming others through acts of terrorism. Byung-Chul Han argues that our times are characterized not by external repression but by an internal depression whereby the destructive pressure comes not from the other but from the self. It is only by returning to society of listeners and lovers by acknowledging and desiring the other that we can seek to overcome the isolation and suffering caused by this crushing process of total assimilation.

Reading the planets through Capital, Power, and Labor by Alice Sparkly Kat

Where in America can you visit another country without needing a passport?Chinatown USA: a world within a world and a state of mind. In American Chinatown, acclaimed travel writer Bonnie Tsui takes an affectionate and attentive look at the neighborhood that has bewitched her since childhood. Tsui visits the country’s five most famous China towns and focuses on the intriguing characters who live in these enclaves. For anyone who has ever wandered through Chinatown and wondered what it was all about and for Americans wanting to understand the changing face of their own country American Chinatown is an all-access pass.

Poetic culture from antiquity through the Tang, by Zong-qi Cai

Articles that unpack the harmful stereotypes of Asians in the collective Western consciousness.