Jagannath
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…
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…
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I do not have all of it in a nice neat single package – there should be 9 hours of love (what I do have is 9 hours…
From Volume 2, number 1 – 1989. Customs Review of Public CultureDownload
The Modern has seen better days. Astronomical sums would buy it. Raju is caretaking, but, well, unlike most of Kolkata which has a certain sheen of relevance and…
Timepass: having sat four days under the Bodhi tree in Bodhgaya and watched in procession: – an ant struggling to go the wrong way as hundreds of devotees…
See also: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649373.2024.2293553 Elemental structures of memory: Marston Mats in Vietnam and beyond – preprint Bardot with Marst…
This article, in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, is about heritage restoration according to old colonial protocols and myopias. Contesting entrepreneur-developers facing funder imperative…
On Adorno and Wagner for the journal Kaabigan: With Michael Roland F. Hernandez’s intro: “John Hutnyk’s meditation on Zukunftsmusik—Richard Wagner’s “music of the future”—provides a…
New article – this is about heritage restoration according to old colonial protocols and myopias. Contesting entrepreneur-developers facing funder imperatives, the article works through meaning…
A best yet marston mat helicopter landing pad from the stranded bunnies section of Apocalypse Now Redux (2001 edition). Not in any of the other editions, for reasons…
On January 3 2026, after the strike on Venezuela, Trump called up what I assume is now his second most favourite programme Fox and Freinds to say: “I…
Just to add to the frenzy; RIP. see original at (h/t Neil D): https://youtu.be/ai2As4XFZDY?si=g3zLRAGS_yumwvyl See also: More marsten mats One more on Marston Mats (perhaps my fav…
If you have any interest in electronic music, classical, experimental, or just music, or humanity, in general, today is the day to listen again to the works of…
In a perhaps misguided effort to preserve love of writing, enthuse about independent critical mental facility, to “exercise the metaphoric muscle”, as Mick Taussig would say, and just…