Robinson Vols 1 & 2.
Crikey, would you have paid 35 grand (in 2017) for just parts one and two of the original Robinson – this was missing the third part. Bargain at…
Author: john hutnyk
Global South Asia on Screen
The full wraparound cover: https://www.aakarbooks.com/details.php?bid=875
Darwin’s Political Wackiness
In the updated 1844 edition of the Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin offers his view on political systems (as indeed many do about the acephalous societies of South…
Người Cầm Lái
A Opera-play Người Cầm Lái (April 2022) presented Ho Chi Minh as the helmsman. By ‘The People’s Public Security Theatre, it celebrates ‘the beloved President’s 132nd birthday (1890-2022)&…
Subhas gutted in HCMC (fire at 76 Hai Ba Trung, 1.7.2022)
July 1st, Ho Chi Minh City – 76 Hai Ba Trung – After a fire that started in an picture framing shop*, a large part of the house…
Selected Ho Chi Minh, in translation.
Have this in my hand, having helped translate a part of it, cannot recommend it more highly. The full Đường Cách Mệnh trans will follow next year, also…
We are probably all black centipedes at heart
Dream note: I have to arrange my own boat, a massive crustacean-covered barge rowed with huge crab/octopus like mechanical oars and a front that folds over with a…
Kant on Robinson
well well… of course Robinson serves all who want him to be twisted this way and that – of its time, of our time… Immanuel Kant seems to…
Netaji aggregator post
I do not want to attract new madness, the old madness does well enough. Here, a summary of various items of fun fact* where *I use the term…
In recovery
After two months of radio four brainwash, it is good to be in recovery, getting back to normal with Radio M-L and happy to leave the sinking remain/brexit…
Rejection journal.
Found in my notebooks from 2019: a proposal. Journal for Rejected Papers of Persistence and Perseverance Aims and scope. This journal, set up to the standards…
[unpacking my] word hoarding
Bamboo airlines generous 45 kg luggage allowance, plus 25kg add on, and back troubling hand luggage… On the hottest day of the year, leaving Notts at 39 for…
Trinketization sold out
H/t Wulf Hund
Down Down Deeper and Download
lots of things to download here. Articles: https://booksc.org/s/Hutnyk/?signAll=1&ts=0350&order=year Books: https://uk1lib.vip/s/Hutnyk/?signAll=1&ts=0401
Apocalyptic end times
I have a hunch this place won’t last the decade – some sort of global cataclysm is in the offing, you can just tell. Yet despite prognostications of…
Global shipping
sometimes these maps are so pro-capital its embarrassing. This one is of course, but its also informative. Here are the paths of need and greed, crime and time…
Perception test. Who can…?
I approached the bookseller to ask for 50% discount on this book because of its major flaw. Can you see it? Would you pay full price for this,…
Not yet lit Stalin
I’ve not yet lit the Stalin candle. #trinketization
Captain Cook chased a chook…
… all around Australia, he lost his pants in the middle of France and found them in Tasmania. Or: Captain Cook rode a chook down the Murray River.…
Emma, Andrew, Jeremy, Bernice and Desmond – with friends like these…
https://www.facebook.com/DoubleDownNews/videos/254114986690397/ Presented by Andrew Feinstein, former ANC, Corruption Watch and anti Arms Trade Campaigner. This is not much about Emma Watson as ab…
Floods
The news cycle forgets too often, but this https://m.economictimes.com/news/india/mawsynram-and-cherrapunjee-together-get-more-rainfall-in-a-day-than-entire-countrys-average-in-june/articleshow/9…
The reserve army of labour – (latent)
Well, this is a new blip on the slow process of getting people paid recognition for work. There are a few other things like this – eg the…
Details
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The Gayatri Spivak Aesop Interview
Read it here: https://www.aesop.com/uk/r/the-fabulist/gayatri-spivak/ (Great interview, and the publication venue is no more soapy than any newspaper – fun). Separately, there should …