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»Who Owns Free Knowledge?«

Who Owns Free Knowledge? Wikimedia Deutschland and the Weizenbaum Institute are organizing the conference: »Who Owns Free Knowledge? Examining Power, Platformization, and the Promise of the Commons«. April 10, 2025 Berlin and online The event will critically examine how historical legacies and current technological developments influence contemporary knowledge systems. It…

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The Combustible Affair of Ensuring/Insuring Theater Safety in Colonial Singapore

“Disentangling Colonial Archives: The Combustible Affair of Ensuring/Insuring Theater Safety in Colonial Singapore” will finally come out this month as a chapter in the collection: “Entangled Performance Histories.” In April 2020, I was lost in an exciting writing project, oblivious to the world shutting down to a global pandemic. I…

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The Sonic Entanglements Podcast is up!

I am excited to announce that the Sonic Entanglements Podcast is now online. This series examines the history of sound in Southeast Asia, through conversations with sound experts: historians, archivists, sound engineers, artists, and scholars. In presenting postcolonial and decolonial sound scholarship through podcast, this show underscores the sonicity of…

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