Cloud Poetry

Byyng-Chul Han’s analysis of our global everyday existence under the challenges of electronically induced hypercommunication.

Poems in no particular order

Segments from “Melancholy of Race” by Anne Anlin Cheng

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Double-entry bookkeeping, in accounting, is a system of book keeping where every entry to an account requires a corresponding and opposite entry to a different account. The double-entry has two equal and corresponding sides known as debit and credit. Assets = Liabilities + Equity

Bits of Chinese proverbs and wisdom in Mandarin and English

A compilation of Classical Japanese poems dating to around 1230-40 and assembled by the renowned poet and scholar Fujiwara no Taika. In English and Japanese.

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Two short stories by Jennie Egerdie, published in McSweeney’s

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Selected poems of Edith Wharton, the first female writer to win the Pulitzer Prize.

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The Science of Sacred Sites by Brian Fagan describes how archaeologists use modern science to study ancient cosmologies and religious beliefs. All archaeologists analyze the material remains of human behavior in the past using such durable funds as pottery, stone tools, building foundations, and food remains. In recent years some scholars have turned from the material to the intangible. They ask a question that was unthinkable even 20 years ago: what can archaeology tell us about the relationships between ancient cultures and their world as the perceived it?

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Kenkō was born in 1283 to a Kyoto family of hereditary Shinto priests. His times demanded adaptability to an often inconsistent and multi-layered world, and he was a man well suited to his times.

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