The eighteenth episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, eighty-eight minutes of feedback loops with Asa Roast, Dino Chang and Gabriele de Seta nerding out about Dylan Levi King's work. In this episode: translating Chinese literature, Chinese cybernetics, DPRK environmentalism, Japanese fashion, Asia-as-method. Thuds and cuts due to experimental microphone setups. LINKS: - Jia Pingwa's "The Shaanxi Opera": https://www.amazon.com/Shaanxi-Opera-Part-novel-ebook/ - Angela Xiao Wu's "Journalism via systems cybernetics": https://hms.mediastudies.press/pub/wu-journalism-systems/release/6 - Dylan's "Ketamine and the return of the party state": https://www.palladiummag.com/2021/06/23/ketamine-and-the-return-of-the-party-state/ - Dylan's "The genealogy of Chinese cybernetics": https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/10/17/the-genealogy-of-chinese-cybernetics/   Support CWGI: https://en.liberapay.com/CWGI/