"Ever since Ralph Scheepers left Gamma Ray for greener pastures and an ill-fated tryout for the vacant vocal spot in Judas Priest, he's thrown his all into Primal Fear, and so, every two years or so, like clockwork, we get a new gleaming chrome platter from them. At first, it felt like he was doing Painkiller-esque album after album to show Priest what a huge fuck up they made by choosing Ripper over him. Over time, though, the Primal Fear sound morphed into a more power metal-centric style w...| Angry Metal Guy
A good place to start on Tetsuro Watsuji’s Climate (1935) is by considering how the very notion of the Japanese fudo as it appears defined in the first pages of the text, as a “structural element of human existence”. Augustin Berque has proposed a slightly different translation: the “structural moment” that speaks semantically to the […]| Infrapolitical Reflections
Dans le cadre de notre tour du monde, nous avons choisi de faire une escale en Chine à travers l’album Le Héros de Pierre Cornuel. C’est un très bel album, tant par la richesse de ses illustrations que par la profondeur de son propos. Inspiré de la légende de Zou Chu, il raconte l’histoire d’un garçon qui part à la recherche de la gloire, avec l’idée que devenir un héros passe par la force, le combat, la domination sur les autres.| Depuis le cadre de ma fenêtre
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The transformation of the Uyghur-majority lands of Southern Xinjiang known as Alte Sheher, or the Six Cities, came in waves, first in the 1950s when systematic political changes to Uyghur and Kazakh social life began, and then in the 1990s when resource extraction infrastructure, industrial farming, Han settlers, and the Chinese market changed all aspects of Uyghur life. An elderly Uyghur farmer in Khotan I interviewed in 2015 illustrated this process using the lives of trees as an example. ...| art of life in chinese central asia
“That’s right. Since I’m from Southern Xinjiang I know that I’ll never be able to find a job,” Kaiser told the Han taxi driver in Mandarin. “If you don’t have connections, you won’t even be considered for jobs. This country doesn’t serve the needs of the ‘common people.’” Kaiser used the term “lǎobǎixìng 老百姓” — or “old 100 names” — to refer to the predicament of the common people. Of course, the surnames that belong to these “old 100” — Wang,...| art of life in chinese central asia