The levels of projection to this. The US gave an order in the early days of the Korean War to fire on refugees. The US firebombed cities and burned villages in the north in search of activist workers to detain and kill. They detonated bridges in Seoul as civilians fled.
i would not discount it as being devoid of progressive impulse: is definitely rooted in disillusionment w/ the existing state of things in the us i.e the utopic vision of chinese cities as alternatives to whatever bullshit going on in LA
contemporary sinophilia seems more like an escapist retreat into the orientalist imagination, than the progressive countercultural tendency that many people treat it as
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*Slavoj Zizek sniffs loudly* Ah yes, yes, the ABG. The Asian Baby Girl. Sniff This is, you see, this is a perfect case study in what Lacan would call, you know, the sliding of the signifier. Yes? Sniff
Because what is happening, what is happening here is fascinating. The fob, the fresh off the boat, she arrives in Cupertino, in Palo Alto, and she encounters this term, ABG, and she does not know, you see, she does not know the genealogy. She treats the signifier as, how do you say, a flat-pack from IKEA. Some assembly required. Sniff
And what is the criteria, what is the criteria now? You drink the boba, ABG. You play the League of Legends, you say "hi" to a stranger at the Whole Foods, ABG, ABG, ABG. Sniff In this way, you see, every Asian American woman who is not actively crying over a textbook becomes, ontologically, an ABG. The category devours itself. It is, how do you say, the Hegelian bad infinity of the H1B imagination.
Sniff But here, here is where it becomes interesting, you see. Sniff The ABG AI CMO. Sniff This is a new object. A fantasy object. Because the original ABG, she did not care about your seed round. She did not care about your transformer architecture. She was, you see, sublimely indifferent to your cap table. Sniff
But the new one, the fob ABG, ah (Sniff) she is the perfect aspirational-honeypot, yes? She must be intelligent enough to discuss, you know, the mixture of experts, but also hot enough that the YC partner forgets to ask about retention. She is, you see, the Lacanian "objet petit a" of the Sequoia partner. Sniff
And this, this is why the SF mid, and we must use this term clinically, with love (Sniff) the SF mid sees in the ABG not a person but a portal. A portal out of the dimly lit WeWork of her own facticity. She organizes the meetup. She buys the gold hoops on Amazon. Sniff "Look, I am ABG now." No. Sniff No, my dear. You are performing ABG for an audience that is also performing ABG, in a recursive loop of mutual misrecognition. It is, you see, it is ABGs all the way down. Sniff
I love the Olympics, but I don’t love the surge of reactionary nationalism that comes with it. We should be standing together as a united human race against the true enemy: people who went to Stanford