Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤

@hyoyoonkang

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· 1d

I discovered the versatility of paper clips late in life: paper, clothes, curtains, anything! It even saved diamanté straps from an evening dress from coming completely apart!

Skirt waist pulled together with a white paper clip

The stitches of the strap came loss to hold the metal ring for the handbag strap, a black paper clip stops making it slip into the middle now

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· 11d

every year

post by Neil Renic @NC_Renic from 2024 I think? ... "Finally time to start my summer writing" with an image of a woman standing on a beach with an approaching tsunami and the image is titled AUGUST 1

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· 13d

Last night

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· 16d

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· 16d

High summer report (this is not an academic post)

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· 17d

When I feel down, I think about this by Bong Joon-ho, and it never fails to cheer me up immediately

"My official answer is, AI is good because it's the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I'm going to organize a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AL," he said.

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· 17d

Okay this was my book pile for July which made my suitcase go over weight limit, and I have exactly five days to read them all lol

Pile of something like nine books which I meant to read in July

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· 18d

Last week I revisited the ancient site of Mycenae, and the history of the house of Atreus and Agamemnon reminded me that the problem is often not between families, but absolutely INSIDE them… incest, cannibalism, and bloodbath all somewhere around these hills…

Look out from the museum of ancient site of Mycenae out on the surrounding hills, now olive tree groves

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· 21d

highlight of every summer, and it is still wondrous to know that I am sitting and watching a play like fellow humans some five thousand years ago

Before the start of performance in the ancient theatre of Epidavros - moon is visible on the dusk sky

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· Jun 29

Still in afterglow of an amazing week in São Paulo

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· Jun 27

Probably the nicest room I ever held a lecture in (this is Univ of São Paulo law school) - a bit of a wrong outfit choice on my part but matches curtain?!

Didn’t realise I was sitting and lecturing in front of the emperor of Brazil …

Roundtable Round 2 on IP and industrial policy

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· Jun 22

Had a proper Sunday off work for the first time in ages, loving São Paulo’s spirit, but today: Monday work deluge regardless of where!

Enjoyed an incredible Sunday on Avenida Paulista, closed to traffic to make space for pedestrian

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· Jun 21

I didn’t realise how football mad Brazil is but even the guys in the kitchen don’t get to miss a WC match (see the screens in the restaurant upstairs kitchen)

View of a restaurant in Copan building - kitchen staff also have two flatscreens with World Cup matches running

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· Jun 21

Brazil 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· Jun 10

“Don’t know if this quiz is at all accurate”. My result:

The Hermetic Magus
C. 1460-1600 • ITALY & NORTHERN EUROPE • NATURAL MAGICIAN
Agrippa, the Occult Philosophy
You suspect the universe is alive and laced with hidden correspondences only the learned can read. You think the adept who knows the ancient keys can reach up and pull on its strings.
REPRESENTATIVE FIGURES Marsilio Ficino, Cornelius Agrippa, John Dee,
Giordano Bruno
• READ MORE
Primary: Agrippa, De occulta philosophia (1533)
Secondary: Frances Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition
(1964)-thesis contested by Vickers and
Westman
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· Jun 7

TB upping it up a notch

Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good for their health, but life in the country is not original at all, for anyone who wasn't born in and for the country it shows a lack of taste and is only harmful to their health. The people who go walking in the country walk right into their own funeral in the country and at the very least they lead a grotesque existence which leads them first into idiocy, then into an absurd death.
Thomas Bernhard

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· Jun 7

Lovely afternoon thanks to @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social 🤍

Korean traditional wooden house in urban woods with a bridge crossing a stream

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· Jun 4

It was lovely meeting @johannawinant.bsky.social amidst marking tunnel and deadlines, and instead, briefly admire mover thousand year old tea cups together.

Display of porcelains objects at Leeum permanent collection as if suspended in air

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· Jun 3

i need to change my life dress

short high necked flower dress celine summer 2026

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· May 31

All steps 1 to 3 are already happening: "The objective is a world in which we are seamlessly shuttled from one managed (and, ideally, exploitable) activity to the next – with no break or chance to look around us – from cradle to grave. The death of the university will bring that world a step closer"

First to go, as current events make abundantly clear, will be a large proportion of the teaching and administrative staff (not, of course, the higher-level management), followed by the (costly and not-directly-profitable) ‘research’ element of the job descriptions of the academics who remain, whose teaching loads will then be increased to the point where they barely recognize their own students (many have reached this point already). All that will be left outside of Oxbridge (which is well-insulated from the financial pressures on other universities, though far from immune to the temptations of expansionism, casualization and under-valuing of staff) will be a scattering of AI-infested hubs for the accelerated production of hyper-indebted ‘graduates’.

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· May 30

Full moon in summer feels different than the ones in the winter, don’t know why

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· May 29

more like

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· May 27

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· May 26

misread "communion" as "communism" first lol

banner at the bottom of the encyclican infographics: "let us not build another Tower of Babel; let us become builders of communion!"

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· May 26

agree with many of the sentiments expressed and I think it is an important intervention in substance, but this infographic somehow freaks me out, especially the QR code and the existence of a "Discastery for Promoting Integral Human Development" (sic)

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· May 26

I am constantly looking for for one of them. There is also a fourth one. Hashtag: ageing is weird

Three glasses which happen to be all meeting each other, rare occurrence

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· May 25

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· May 23

Your tone of voice still isn't complex enough. - Alice Notley

I Am Vocal and Salt

Alice Notley

All the beauties winged whisper, but I
don't care if you get what you want. It's what I want, that's why I'm leading you. I want the correction for my sake. I want to be in the right universe.
Now I've gone to where I've abolished you, am I calling for a new you? It's so restful here.
Momma he won't shut up. They don't even know how to speak they understand each other saying nothing words. I'm tormented because I can't find someone with an ear. God has an ear but there's no god. There must be someone who can hear delicacy and herceness mixed All they say are words they heard someone say, they can't play the language.
I'm walking up
J Street hill, I feel sad as brass tacks. I'm leading all of you up too, I'm about ten and it's the same as now.
Steep up, there's a gully to the side you'll stupidly hill in later so trucks can go through as if they matter, I used to think you mattered. Now my real you is the dead, and I'm leading the live you to them, to you, aren't I?
We have to be reconciled. Those athels are ugly you can suck them for salt or you can cry for it.
The hardest part of being alive is wondering why, when we're all going to be dead,
the dead say
they're not sure why. We had to be defined to die but we invented it. We just do it. You
need to be led, I say. You don't know what you're doing.
Your tone of voice still isn't complex enough.

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· May 23

approximately from a year ago. the world is even dumber now.

Screenshot from Fox News from 7 April 2025: banner at bottom: trump’s manly tariffs. Pundit believes it could reverse crisis in masculinity.

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang· May 22

Revisiting the question of canon, once again. I had written this in 2019 for a special section on the question of law and humanities canon and I think it still holds up. But also think now that maybe we need to get organised, i.e. do we need a counter-counter-canon