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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤

@hyoyoonkang.bsky.social

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I write and teach critical intellectual property, theories, law & humanities & history of science in the UK university titanic. Mostly unserious here. Private account. hyoyoonkang.com

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · Aug 20

Happy this is happening, hope to see many of you IP and IP related nerds online!

Int Society for the History & Theory of Intellectual Property @ishtip.bsky.social · Aug 20

We are very pleased to announce the 2025/6 ISHTIP Online Seminar Series, which brings together scholars from around the world who explore intellectual property issues from theoretical and historical angles.

Please find below the programme, dates for your diary, registration links ⬇️

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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 5h

no words

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 49m

without any powerpoints!!

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 49m

what'd be really great is to have a week of bsky academic mutuals teach each other/or give talks on works in progress/ for a week. so many excellent classes i wish i could take.

David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 9h

Teaching the first episode of The X-Files in class tomorrow as we consider the role of government and sovereign authority in the construction of conspiracy. We've been talking a lot about UFOs in class, and it will be interesting to hear their perspective on such an iconic TV show.

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 51m

wish i could take your class

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 1h

what happened to note taking skills

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 1h

ah got it. i had clicked on it but the screen didn't look any different. didn't realise that one could scroll down... thank you.

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 1h

thank you!

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 1h

got asked for powerpoint slides although they were already visible on the full screen on the lecture recording

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 1h

i suspect they really do believe in the theology of business studies and comp sci

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 1h

omg this is so spot on

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 1h

"skeptical that a nation can be held together with business studies and comp sci" ⚡

last tory government's campaign which shows a woman tying her pointe shoes in ballerina clothing. title says: "Fatima's next job could be in cyber. (she just doesn't now it yet) Rethink. Reskill. Reboot.

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 1h

hard relate

will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 5h

when i started my phd in 2010 one thing i definitely underestimated was how much of my life 15 years later would be “making PowerPoints”

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Helen Lovatt @helenlovatt.bsky.social · 3h

I used to teach from handouts. I had a colleague who just talked. He obviously thought a lot about it first. Students need something to pin their memories to, and my work is very text based, so handout is the minimum.

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 1h

this is a great idea, remember from my own student days.

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 1h

wanted to try but students emailing me asking me to upload slides although slides were visible full screen on the recording for an hour ... ouf

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 1h

beautiful website. how do you access the contributions though. and is there a print version?

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Draught @draughtjournal.bsky.social · 5h

Draught is now live!
www.draughtjournal.com
Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 1h

some great friendships

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 1h

think universities managed to not tell staff to turn lectures into TED talks ... but hey now we have staff doing promotion reels on instagram and tiktok

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 1h

the cool sensation of opening a print book - so accurate

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 1h

saw a TED talk highlighted in a CV and felt sorry for the person (fremdgeschämt)

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 1h

lovely. i do think there is also a special pleasure of reading a second hand physical book.

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 2h

Enjoyed this piece on Pynchon by @devintoshea.bsky.social which phrases a point @mattseybold.bsky.social makes - “Print is a Rent Strike” - in another way

lithub.com/thomas-pynch...

I've been thinking a lot about how, now, thanks to our phones and screens, every waking hour of the day is subject to capital extraction through data, which is collected and bundled, and sold without you or I even knowing we labored. Reading a physical book breaks from that, and I sometimes feel physical relief in my head when I detach from the monitor; putting eyes on text that doesn't move, read a line, close the book, take a breath, stare out into the sky, open the book back up, notice something, then notice something about the room I'm in, or the park bench. Sometimes the relief of this feels like someone cracked open my skull and poured cool water on the hot machine; other times I'm too scattered and frightened about the future to do anything but sit beside the book while I scroll.

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 1h

mirrors my experience of living in the UK and Germany (Italy and Switzerland are missing here)

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2h

If you want to read an actually good piece about integration in the United Kingdom, try @samfr.bsky.social:

The Truth About Integration

I have been challenged by readers to write something less depressing about the state of the country.

samf.substack.com

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 2h

no powerpoint slides that were already visible on full screen for an hour on a recorded lecture

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