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The Future Is Edible
Seeking escape from AI and a return to real life, a new wave of avant-garde artists is throwing sensory dinner parties. What do they reveal about the…
8 hrs ago
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Patrick Kho
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The First Looksmaxxer Was a Raver
Zyzz, the “world’s first looksmaxxer,” was shaped by Sydney’s 2000s trance scene—and its raver politics gave him a strangely utopian legacy.
Sep 8
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Patrick Kho
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The New Hong Kong Underground
First-person reporting from inside the city's next generation of culture
Published on Welcome Magazine
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Aug 12
Mapping the International Internet Gothic
Reporting from a Nu China club night: “Goth” is shedding old definitions, reshaping across borders into an emerging “alt” internet aesthetic. We can’t…
Jul 21
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Patrick Kho
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Inside Shanghai’s Gamer Nightclub
A gonzo-style review of INS Land, Shanghai’s famous six-story nightclub. (And the rise of gamer nightlife?)
Jun 30
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Patrick Kho
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“Chinese Manufacturing” is the New “Zero Interest Rates”
Reporting from a nightclub in Shenzhen: Travel to China is recreating habits and fantasies of the Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) era.
Jun 2
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Patrick Kho
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The Shanghai Cabaret Theory of Globalization
How an unlikely alliance of African Americans, Russians, and Filipinos in 1930s Shanghai created a new, bottom-up model for a connected world.
May 12
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Patrick Kho
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The End of Soho House Globalism
The members’ club exported “cool” across the globe. But by 2026, it’s clear that good culture needs its roots.
Apr 7
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Patrick Kho
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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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