Simon Van de Sandean infinity of cherries in a rowThings I will certainly miss:May 5, 2020May 5, 2020
Simon Van de SandeThinking in timescales at Jade MountainThere is something primal about mountain-climbing - even if you do it accompanied, in the end it is about your own endurance and your own…Jan 6, 2020Jan 6, 2020
Simon Van de SandeThe Space Force: America regainedWith the Trump Administration inventing a Space Force, it’s safe to assume they have entered their Leni Riefenstahl phase and their Werner…Aug 10, 2018Aug 10, 2018
Simon Van de SandeReading Rancière on the moon: the solemn genius of StereolabThis morning YouTube’s recommended video section suddenly contained Stereolab’s first-ever slot on the John Peel Show.Jan 20, 2018Jan 20, 2018
Simon Van de SandeAngkor Wat, a crash course in trauma symptoms?The Angkor Wat holiday experience ca. 2017 is characterised by a deep disconnect that works at multiple levels. There is the obvious…Jul 28, 2017Jul 28, 2017
Simon Van de SandeDiesel and day-old jasmine garlandsThe ride to Mingaladon Airport is probably one of the main benchmarks used in Burmese econometrics. Or rather, the length of it, as more…Feb 23, 2017Feb 23, 2017
Simon Van de Sande2017: drawing the line at tigersThe most overused word of 2016 was probably disruption, you realised when writing the boss’ New Years speech. The world is now finally…Jan 16, 2017Jan 16, 2017
Simon Van de SandeSomewhere over the South China Sea, mid-SeptemberThere is something outlandish about coming home for just a night: the smell of the flat, the breakfast bar next door, the balmy air that…Dec 12, 2016Dec 12, 2016
Simon Van de Sande“Interesting things are very seldom pretty”Yangon confirms the old dictum (by whom? Sebald? Châteaubriand?) that interesting things are very seldom pretty. Even more so now that the…Nov 18, 2016Nov 18, 2016
Simon Van de SandeinJournal of International PsychogeographyMetro grids, off-ramps and idées-fixesTaipei used to be so huge, so all-encompassing, so pregnant with possibility. The Ximen roundabout glittered with tinsel, like Shibuya…Nov 2, 2016Nov 2, 2016