Jonathan Emmesedi6d ago

#KpopMonday #SkoolLuvAffair

GFRIEND -- Me Gustas Tu -- JP version
https://youtu.be/Q_8YONoUqRw?si=5JTd7DqYQZxdkaZq

I can't resist posting another GFriend MV. This Japanese version of "Me Gustas Tu" has a high school setting absent in the Korean original.

Overall, I actually prefer this Japanese version. GFriend's sound was Jpop influenced, and the girls look so much better here than they did in the Korean MV.

Globalization was at work in this MV, in which a Korean girl group sing a Spanish titled song in Japanese, while in the school nearly all the text shown is in English.

#Kpop #GFriend #MeGustasTu #GirlGroups #Globalization

[MV] GFRIEND - 今日から私たちは (Me Gustas Tu) -JP ver.-

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Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureAug 15

“Scott’s novel concerns itself with the benefits and virtues of a globalized economy, and the risks we run if we ignore those who are excluded from it”

—Prof Ali Lumsden on Walter Scott’s ROB ROY, via Public Books

6/10

https://www.publicbooks.org/walter-scotts-rob-roy-200/

#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #19thcentury #Romanticism #economics #globalization

Walter Scott’s “Rob Roy” @200 - Public Books

What can Walter Scott’s sixth novel, Rob Roy, a phenomenal publishing success in 1817, tell us about the benefits and risks of a globalized economy today?

Public Books
Reverend ElvisAug 14
In the 1990s, it was said that if the #West continued down the path of #neoliberalism and ruthless #globalization based on #greed rather than #solidarity, it would perish. This is not a one-way street; this #war is also being fought on the #streets of the West. Now that this is the case, there is no point in complaining. #wetoldyouso
China Xinhua News Aug 12
U.S. #tariffs amount to a #tax increase on #Americans, slow economic #growth, and tie the country to outdated industries, says British economist John Ross.
As #GlobalSouth nations deepen #globalization, he warns, America's share of world #trade will shrink.
Nikolas KozloffAug 10
I am still dealing with the #ironies here: this is what we used to address in the anti-#globalization movement...whose agenda has now been perverted and embraced for totally different reasons by a #fascist #autocrat
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2025/08/01/can-tariffs-lead-to-a-more-circular-economy/ #fascism #trump #climate #climatechange #environment #sustainability
Can Tariffs Lead to a More Circular Economy?

While controversial and often politically divisive, tariffs may have the opportunity to shift production and consumption patterns toward sustainability.

State of the Planet
Jonathan EmmesediAug 10

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VIVIZ -- EUNHA -- Full Moon @ ULSAN SUMMER FESTIVAL -- (FANCAM)
https://youtu.be/TXkDDm1lDlI?si=m9w4aZG9WOhibIsn

This is already one of my favourite fancams.

(How lucky I feel, having been born into a Britain with three channels of black and white television, that I can now watch the beautiful Kpop idol Eunha sing and dance without the restrictions of broadcast schedules!

I know there are many downsides to this media and information explosion, but we should not forget the ways in which it has changed the world for the better.)

Contrary to my usual preference for the dressy over the casual in Kpop styling, I prefer the outfits here to those worn in the stage I have recently featured in #KpopOfTheWeek .

A few seconds that strike me in this fancam are those following 0:34. Eunha stands, with her attention, I would guess, completely devoted to listening for her cue.

These moments of selfless concentration in performance can be so wonderful to see, let alone experience. Here's Eunha in another such moment...

#Kpop #VIVIZ #Eunha #FullMoon #Fancam #Internet #Globalization #Media #Performance #KpopStyling

[4K] 250804 비비지(VIVIZ) 은하(EUNHA)- Full Moon @ ULSAN SUMMER FESTIVAL 직캠(FANCAM)

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Nikolas KozloffAug 8

Tell me about it how did #fascism co-opt tenets of the anti - #globalization movement?

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/why-after-the-g8-in-genoa-carlo-giuliani-diaz-and-bolzaneto-has-the-left-become-the-right-and-v

Why, After the G8 in Genoa, Carlo Giuliani, Diaz, and Bolzaneto, Has the Left Become the Right and Vice Versa?

Leonardo Caffo Why, After the G8 in Genoa, Carlo Giuliani, Diaz, and Bolzaneto, Has the Left Become the Right and Vice Versa? The No-Global Dream Failed....

The Anarchist Library
AutocadeAug 7

Make AvtoVAZ great again

https://autocade.world/2025/08/make-avtovaz-great-again/

#Lada #Zhiguli #VAZ #globalization #USA #politics

Jack Yan (甄爵恩)Aug 7

In my #blog
Making #Avtovaz great again

https://jackyan.com/blog/2025/08/make-avtovaz-great-again/

Also in Autocade World: https://autocade.world/2025/08/make-avtovaz-great-again/ #Lada #Zhiguli #VAZ #globalization #USA #politics

Make AvtoVAZ great again

  This image, of President Donald J. Trump standing in front of a Russian car, a Zhiguli (or Kopeyka in the vernacular)—better known as a Lada to the rest of us—was really posted by the Grand Old Party, with the words ‘The One Big Beautiful Bill will drive the return of the great American car.’

Jack Yan: the Persuader Blog
GloPhiAug 6

Futures of Philosophizing in Africa:
Transforming the Philosophy Curriculum

Workshop for Early-Career African Researchers in Philosophy
March 5 – 15, 2026, Hildesheim University

Application Deadline: September 1, 2025

https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/glophi/2025/08/06/futures-of-philosophizing-in-africa-transforming-the-philosophy-curriculum-workshop/

#africanphilosophy #callforapplications #curriculum #decolonization #education #future #globalization #philosophy #networking #transformation

Futures of Philosophizing in Africa: Transforming the Philosophy Curriculum (Workshop) – GloPhi – Philosophizing in a Globalized World

Given the effects of climate change, poverty, unstable governments, a range of security threats, the continuing impact of colonialism, and the challenges of globalization, among other pressing issues, there are essential topical discourses of continental and global relevance that philosophical research must address in the future.Additionally, it is crucial to consider how philosophy should be taught in African philosophy departments to meet the demands of the future. After all, today's students are tomorrow's lecturers, researchers, and decision-makers.The goal of our workshop is to encourage emerging African scholars in philosophy to engage with questions and concepts that they have formulated to advance philosophies in Africa / African philosophy. We also invite them to confidently draw on Africa's philosophical heritage and global philosophical traditions to enhance the endeavor of philosophizing in Africa.

GloPhi – Philosophizing in a Globalized World