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Simon Van de Sande

Simon Van de Sande

an infinity of cherries in a row

Things I will certainly miss:

May 5, 2020

May 5, 2020

Simon Van de Sande

Thinking in timescales at Jade Mountain

There 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, 2020

Thinking in timescales at Jade Mountain

Jan 6, 2020

Simon Van de Sande

The Space Force: America regained

With the Trump Administration inventing a Space Force, it’s safe to assume they have entered their Leni Riefenstahl phase and their Werner…

Aug 10, 2018

Aug 10, 2018

Simon Van de Sande

Reading Rancière on the moon: the solemn genius of Stereolab

This morning YouTube’s recommended video section suddenly contained Stereolab’s first-ever slot on the John Peel Show.

Jan 20, 2018

Jan 20, 2018

Simon Van de Sande

Angkor 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, 2017

Jul 28, 2017

Simon Van de Sande

Diesel and day-old jasmine garlands

The 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, 2017

Diesel and day-old jasmine garlands

Feb 23, 2017

Simon Van de Sande

2017: drawing the line at tigers

The most overused word of 2016 was probably disruption, you realised when writing the boss’ New Years speech. The world is now finally…

Jan 16, 2017

Jan 16, 2017

Simon Van de Sande

Somewhere over the South China Sea, mid-September

There 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, 2016

Somewhere over the South China Sea, mid-September

Dec 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, 2016

Nov 18, 2016

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Journal of International Psychogeography

Metro grids, off-ramps and idées-fixes

Taipei used to be so huge, so all-encompassing, so pregnant with possibility. The Ximen roundabout glittered with tinsel, like Shibuya…

Nov 2, 2016

Nov 2, 2016

Simon Van de Sande

Simon Van de Sande

development economist | perspectives on sustainability, cities and the state of affairs where I travel | www.simonvandesande.com

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