Michael Chesnut

My book comes out today! And it's reasonably priced! Whoooooooooooo! It's about linguistics! It's about extreme metal! It's about the Asia Pacific and flows of global subcultures! I'm really proud of it and I hope you all enjoy.

For Korea's ambitious nuclear submarine project, it's full steam ahead The Korean government is moving forward with plans to develop and build nuclear-powered submarines — a project widely regarded as the most ambitious weapons acquisition effort in the country’s history...

Really a remarkable amount of submarine news coming out of Korea these days . . . .
koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-10...

The conference is over, but the program here looks fascinating and next year's conference is not all that far away! Nice to learn about this conference from Bluesky!

What tech titans wore to Seoul 'chimaek' outing - The Korea Times Even a fried chicken dinner becomes a style event when tech titans are involved. Samsung’s Lee Jae-yong, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Hyundai’s Chung...

"Often dubbed Korea’s 'sellout man,' a direct translation from a Korean term reflecting that Lee has a track record of turning his wardrobe choices into bestsellers."

Ok, chimaek talk is getting out of control, and 'sellout man'! Interesting!
www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/2...

More fall trees on campus

Some lovely color here before the leaves all blow away

A pretty yellow tree

Fall is looking pretty gorgeous in Seoul today

Sometimes the #LinguisticLandscape gets spooky!

A lot of Soulbear on the For You timeline tonight

hell yeah

Great to meet our author @kathchr.bsky.social at #12ICOM! Her book “Verschwörungstheorien im Videoformat [Conspiracy Theories in Video Format]” is proudly on display at our booth 📚 Also available #OpenAccess for everyone to read: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Cheers! Jensen Huang and Korean biz leaders bond over 'chimaek' - The Korea Times The press and people on the street gather in front of a restaurant selling "chimaek" (fried chicken and beer) in southern Seoul, where Nvidia CEO J...

Big Chimaek posting in Korea with this beer and chicken meeting. Probably a lot being written about this already, but the food and language issues here could be explored further, I think . . . .
www.koreatimes.co.kr/photos/photo...

For my latest Korea Times contribution I profiled the 25th anniversary exhibition of Cho Jong-goo’s guga Urban Architecture (구가도시건축). Writing it took me back to my master’s thesis on vanishing neighborhoods and resident-pedestrians’ experiences in different parts of Seoul.

‘Every adventure begins with a cup of coffee’: Black rifle coffee company, reactionary fandom, and the tactical body - Anthony Dannar, 2024 This article examines the Black Rifle Coffee Company brand, its fans, and its connection to right-wing violence. By incorporating the literature on brand cultur...

‘Every adventure begins with a cup of coffee’: Black rifle coffee company, reactionary fandom, and the tactical body
Anthony Dannar
Convergence 30 (1), 375-394, 2024
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Very lovely thread with a fascinating and informative story, reminiscent of the best of Twitter essays. Really wonderful to see writing like this on Bluesky and an interesting mention of Black Rifle Coffee Company, which gives me an excuse to post a nice and critical academic article on that company

Architectural firm's exhibition reveals Seoul’s vanishing neighborhoods - The Korea Times As pockets of Seoul undergo rapid redevelopment — from Hannam-dong to the disappearing industrial alleys around Sewoon Sangga — the question of how...

This exhibition looks amazing! Really great to see an effort to document these disappearing neighborhoods
www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/g...

Posters on university campuses suggesting that by reducing unnecessary 'thank you's to AI we can reduce energy consumption by these systems. We are really marching into unknown territory it feels like here in just a bunch of ways. Anyway, here's a 'thank you' just being sent out to us all!

A picture of President Barack Obama giving a speech in Korea

Interesting to see remnants of better times scattered about campus, especially when another president is back in Korea.

The Homeland Secuirty tweets circulating on here with images and text from Halo and Lord of the Rings are really reminding me to get on my fan studies reading list. Man, publishers and more should be getting these scholars to write about all this, in my humble opinion . . . .

A poster in Korean saying it's ok to not say thank you to AI

A Google Lens translation of the poster

It's ok if you don't say 'thank you' [to AI]

A poster about the environmental cost of AI usage, and yeah, a lot going on here in the AI #LinguisticLandscape! Wow, yeah, like a lot. Poster seen on a university campus in Seoul.

Korea, Canada form landmark security and defense cooperation partnership - The Korea Times GYEONGJU, North Gyeongsang Province — President Lee Jae Myung and his Canadian counterpart Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a landmark road map...

Interesting article with lots of nice words about Canada, Korea, and Kpop Demon Hunters, and New Zealand for some reason.
And submarines lurking there too.
www.koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffai...

Gotta be a few papers out there on that park in Hongdae back in the day . . . .

Good fun here accompanying an interesting sign further in the thread. Also, would read the heck out of a paper on Halloween partying on the Yamanote line in Tokyo.

Oh, that is surreal and fascinating! Thanks for sharing!

Sometimes the mobile digital #LinguisticLandscape is all about sports! And buses!

A burger with 한우 stamped into it, upside down

Once more marveling at an actual 'on food' #LinguisticLandscape!

Is there a feed of reasonable and knowledgeable journalists whose beat is AI? Or a list of folks to follow who just do good reporting on AI? I think more and more the economic decline of journalism has left just huge gaps in public knowledge and left society without capacity to deal with many things

‘Why did you hide that you speak Chinese?’ Inside the growing tensions between K-pop stars and their managers - The Korea Times Most K-pop idol groups today include at least one foreign member — part of a deliberate strategy to make inroads into overseas markets. Group A, wh...

Interesting discussion of how managers are now often required to be multilingual and some 'interesting' examples of a newspaper using AI images: anonymous K-pop stars and managers, plus the whole thing is AI translated.
Lots of interest here.
www.koreatimes.co.kr/entertainmen...

Our CfP information for LavLang32 is now live:
📅 6 January 2026 - Abstract submission open
⏱️28 March 2026 - Abstract submission deadline
📣 8 May 2026 - Notification of decisions

lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk

Cc @michaelchesnut.bsky.social #LinguisticLandscape

Oh, this is fantastic, as a sign at least! Thanks so much for sharing this with me!