The Line Ep. 16: The Ancestral Diet
Forget Paleo, Keto and Raw. Go home to grandma while she’s still around, and quick, transcribe all her traditional recipes. It turns out that…
The Line Podcast
Material Culture
The Stories our Flowers Tell
The clues to a culture’s origins can often be found in its gardens.
International Relations
The Dream
When I was away at university, all the cool kids had art prints up on their walls: cheap, twenty-dollar reproductions of Monet and Matisse, hinting…
Taiwan: The Next Creative Powerhouse?
Taiwan is proof that democracy and creativity are not inimical to Asian culture.
Grobalization
The Age of Grobalism
Yeah, no. That’s not a typo.
Grobalization
Always Hip to the Cool
Southeast Asia at the vanguard.
Material Culture
The Original 30 Second Spot
Imagine a client handing you a hunk of stone and saying: here, convince humanity to buy my service.
Immaterial Culture
The Art of Dying
What is the art of dying? It is the ability to meet death with a calm reassurance, without particular attachment to one’s own life.
Grobalization
What is Balinese Hinduism?
There are two Balis: “Bali,” the seeker’s paradise of the Eat, Pray, Love set, and the other Bali, a less penetrable, more complex place. “Bali” was born out of the other Bali’s dialogues with European orientalists and the Indonesian state.
The Jungle
Trop Picks: Carl Linnaeus
Where are all the non-Western artists in the global marketplace of ideas?