imogen’s birthday. 20 years missed now. what would you have made of this world?
Imogen Bunting
there are many instances of sentences written to specific people – love you all – that are also just thinking out loud, so this here below is one…
Review of Madhava Prasad’s 2014 book seems now more than ever… “Cine-Politics asserts that after a distinct period in which writers were dominant in the movies, the celebrity…
“Asian workers ‘at home’ have been organized, culturally and politically, and have provided a critique of anthropological categorisation themselves by focusing on political and organization…
“An outpouring of books on the Sundarbans delta and other Bengal waterways immerse us in a new ecological analytic. An amazing liquid world churns at the end of…
“Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire provides commentary on the politics of the February Revolution in France (1848), leading onto an analysis of the to-ing and fro-ing of Louis Bonaparte (the…
“The displacement of Marxist categories in the discussion of hybridity also alibis and parallels the displacement and replacement of third worldist solidarity work and internationalist politics…
‘In Paul Rabinow’s monograph Symbolic Domination (1975) the anthropologist examines the history of a Moroccan village and its dominant lineage descended from a seventeenth century saint S…
Chapter 15 of “Celebrating Transgression Method and Politics in Anthropological Studies of Culture: A book in Honour of Klaus Peter Köpping” Edited by Ursula Rao and John Hutnyk…
“Corpographies of Public History: The Sequester of Statues in Flagstaff Gardens, Barrackpore, West Bengal” Asian Review of World Histories ISSN: 2287-9811 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/…
The Arcana of Reproduction More to say on this soon as it is invaluable for the book I am working on and is so much more than the…
Its not such a clever thing to treat trees like trinkets, but this one became a tourist attraction, and tourism, of course, often kills what it loves. The…
Book review –
Colleagues’ wonderful work – this is a screenshot, dm to get. https://doi.org/10.1080/01609513.2026.2682135
Reading selections from his Dictionary, and his Mohamet Marx and Engels mention:“The man who deprived seventeenth-century metaphysics and metaphysics in general of all credit in the domain o…
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The Portuguese colonial incursion in Orissa began around 1514, and Malaka port was a key trading link. Centuries later, they had the temerity to put the Jagannath shrine…
I don’t think Robinson had any like the same sort of commitment to the revolution… This, then, is the standard story, but there is much more to it,…
“Johnno” (1975) was an important first book. I will reread it a third (or fourth time) because it is two decades since the last time, and it was…
On “Cringe” and philosophy. You might know that some people consider Martin Heidegger the greatest philosopher (not me, I prefer Tran Duc Thao, and Marx) but Heidegger is nevertheless…
Twenty years is incomprehensible. Recycling this now extraordinarily old post below (its not her birthday today, but 20 years since we lost Imogen Bunting). Double Injustice: Media Ra…
Portrait of President Ho Chi Minh by Vu Cao Dam 1946 – Original in plaster or terracotta, cast in Bronze by his daughter.
2008. “Martin Heidegger Goes to the Movies.” In, Cultural Politics in a Global Age (112–119). Oxford: One World. Was never really satisfied that I had understood Heidegger in…