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The Imagined “Asian Century” Will Not Exist
A post-internet art party in Hong Kong questions the prevailing narrative that Asia is “the future.”
Mar 31
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Patrick Kho
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What Was Afro-Asian Hip-Hop?
Throughout the 2010s, Black and Asian rappers frequently traded symbols and sounds. The movement recalled a longer, shared Afro-Asian history in disco…
Mar 17
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Patrick Kho
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Wasians Are the New Face of Eugenics
Eileen Gu and Alyssa Liu are being co-opted by an extremist mixed-race eugenics movement. What does this phenomenon reveal about our geopolitical…
Mar 10
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Patrick Kho
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How Wong Kar-Wai Created the Future
Thirty years ago, the director engineered an era-defining futurist aesthetic and foresaw the anxieties of 2026.
Mar 3
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Patrick Kho
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What’s “Chic” in an Apocalypse?
In defense of “gorpcore”: How brands like North Face, Salomon, and Arc’teryx created the defining look for the polycrisis.
Feb 17
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Patrick Kho
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The Rise of Punk Globalism
Punk isn’t “dead,” but it’s changing to reflect a discontent unique to the 2020s.
Feb 10
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Patrick Kho
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The DJ Against the End of Globalization
Despite border closures and the rise of multipolarity, DJs are still connecting the world through spontaneous, informal networks.
Jan 27
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Patrick Kho
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Stop Looking for “Community”; Start Searching for a “Scene”
Offering a new way to think about the loneliness crisis (and respite from the “community”-discourse-industrial-complex).
Jan 20
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Patrick Kho
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The Dystopia Will Not Be Cyberpunk
Akihabara—a district in Tokyo that once inspired ideas of “the future”—charts a different reality ahead.
Jan 13
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Patrick Kho
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Why Is the Internet Fantasizing About China?
As Western soft power declines, China-related memes are turning fantasy into a form of alternative world-building.
Dec 16, 2025
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Patrick Kho
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A Return to the Craft
Forecasting the future of creative business from an open-air kitchen.
Dec 9, 2025
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Patrick Kho
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Was the Future Meant to Look Like a PlayStation Ad?
SONY’s PlayStation 2 imagined a future where technology made us more in touch with ourselves, not less.
Nov 18, 2025
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Patrick Kho
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