Андрей Ланьков о логике КНДР, Восточной Азии, востоковедении и AI / Синяя лампа

📖📚 Giveaway of Andrei Lankov’s The Real North Korea — in The Blue Lamp Telegram channel: https://t.me/artemii_levkoy If you would like to support us: from Russia: https://boosty.to/thebluelamp/donate from other countries: https://www.patreon.com/c/OxfordNewRu... Artemii Levkoy: https://taplink.cc/comrade.matthiola Oxford New Russian Society:   / oxnewrussiansoc   Block I. How do you study a closed country? 00:00:00 How do you study a country that does not want to be studied? 00:07:59 What defectors can — and cannot — tell us about the DPRK 00:11:32 Kremlinology 2.0: how AI helps study closed regimes 00:15:30 The DPRK, the USSR, and Russia: where do the analogies end? 00:16:29 A closed country: where is reality, and where is the regime’s projected image? 00:20:25 Economy, army, and factions: topics best avoided 00:22:10 Four statements about North Korea Block II. East Asian geopolitics and the role of the DPRK 00:26:18 “Japan and South Korea are moving closer against China”: the new geopolitics of East Asia 00:31:05 Tactical nuclear weapons, the risk of war between North and South, and the memory of Japanese colonialism 00:34:36 Social media and information bubbles in South and North Korea 00:37:55 North Korea’s intranet: “just like the real Internet”? Block III. Oriental studies in the 21st century 00:41:20 “What do an Orientalist and a goose have in common?”: encyclopaedism, colonialism, and Japan's Occidental studies (rangaku) 00:46:52 “It is hard for a fish to be an ichthyologist”: political incorrectness in Oriental studies and the phenomenon of "going native" 00:52:26 Are generalist diplomats a problem for international politics? 00:57:50 Will AI replace humanities scholars? 01:00:34 Book Giveaway: The Real North Korea (2013) 01:01:25 Does history make anything happen?