'Beijing Is a Nightmare'
Berlin, baby! This is a city infected with a pre-teen’s idea of “being edgy.”
Mia Apfel • “In Berlin, I experience icks I never thought possible.”
Humanity has never faced anything like the combination of climate change, the rise of a vastly powerful industrialized China, and the “total collapse of the neoliberal paradigm,” he said. “It is a non-repeating pattern; it’s a one-way street into radical unhinging,” he continued. Tooze isn’t a pessimist, per se. “We aren’t on the point of World War... See more
Kyle Chayka • The Terrible Twenties? The Assholocene? What to Call Our Chaotic Era
It is Beijing’s—if not the world’s—densest urban environment.
Michael Meyer • The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed
And yet China is becoming a more repressive place over time, as its power grows. The government is building hundreds of new detention facilities all across the country for the emperor’s political opponents. The civil society that began to flourish in previous decades has been increasingly ground into nothingness. The bargain in which the state prov... See more