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Sabina Knight 桑稟华 Profile picture
Sabina Knight 桑稟华
@SabinaKnight1
Prof @SmithCollege, *Chinese Literature: A #VSI* (Oxford), *Heart of Time* (Harvard) / 雙語 @SangBina / Quaker / #PIPfellow @NCUSCR
Sep 12, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
🧵"In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art."

Susan Sontag, "Against Interpretation" (1964), p. 10.
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Image 🧵"Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, comfortable" (p. 5).
📷 vogue.com/article/regard…

Cover of an early edition of Susan Sontag's *Against Interpretation* from Dell. A black and white photo of Sontag appears on the off-white cover.
A black and white photo of a fairly young Susan Sontag sitting on a couch. The caption gives the credit. "Photo: © Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos/Trunk Archive"
Sep 5, 2022 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
🧵Secret watermarks now enable China to identify netizens who post screenshots from Douban and Zhihu.

"Following Douban (豆瓣), Zhihu (知乎) has added blind watermarks on the entire site (on both the web & the app). Sharing screenshots is very high risk."
2/ @Meizakini found recent screenshots unaffected.

Having been discovered by netizens, Zhihu may be temporarily desisting.

"Zhihu Watermark Removal" script: greasyfork.org/en/scripts/450…
删掉知乎网页版水印: greasyfork.org/zh-CN/scripts/…
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Oct 18, 2021 • 11 tweets • 11 min read
🧵~5.3 million views in 4 days.

"Fragile"《玻璃心》mocks the oversensitivity of cyber-nationalists, internet trolls that guard #China against criticism.

– by Malaysian #Chinese artist activist @nameweemusic 黃明志 (ft. Kimberley Chen 陳芳語)
Image 🧵"It might Break Your Pinky Heart"

Paid cyber trolls: "fifty-centers" (五毛 *wumao*).
Unpaid cyber nationalists: "little pinks" (#小粉红).

The name recalls the color of a popular online nationalist forum. Many are young women.
mothership.sg/2018/01/china-…
Jul 4, 2021 • 25 tweets • 27 min read
🧵1/ #躺平 lying flat [thread in progress]

In #China Gen Y-Z are tired of the rat race

新不合作运动
"New Non-Cooperation Movement"

#Memes and Music ImageImageImage 🧵2/ #躺人 "lying flat" – #censorship

"Lying Flat" was quickly censored on both Douban and Weibo.

Within 24 hours, four 'Lying Flat’-themed Douban groups were suspended.

For background: see @SixthTone
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