Black Swan
“Willem de Vlamingh was sent in 1696 to search for two VOC ships, Ridderschap van Holland (Knighthood of Holland), which had gone missing on its way to Batavia…
Author: john hutnyk
hcm calls gandhi a reformer but marx, and darwin, revolutionaries
Toàn tập, tập 2, 1925/2011, p174 “Gandhi is a reformer, not a revolutionary. He called on the English to make reforms in their governance of India but he…
The Rumour of Calcutta at Foreign Publishers Agency on Jawaharlal Nehru Road. In the window! – after 27 years.
From a time before the city had a five word name (K.F.K.A.C), photogenic proof of the rupee version of Rumour in the window, re-released after 27 years…
Maarx Darwin Malthus Hegel
How to read this one – and fun. Marx’s handwriting, that Engels had such trouble to decipher later on (and used some interesting help) is here well hard…
Special Issue: Robinson Crusoe
Free to download in 2023. Click the TOC below and download each as a PDF or EPUB from T&R. #robinson #crusoe #Journal of Postcolonial Writing
Robinson so far…
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0967828X.2021.1994353?src=recsys https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449855.2023.2244204?src=recsys https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1…
Don Miller
On Time. My teacher and friend Don Miller passed away last month. We had published his book “Time and Time Again” in 2022. His memorial is on the…
vampires, sturm und drang
Given how well-known the greatest hits are, it is fun to expand the famous quote just a little to see where Marx signals important transitions: here comes, for…
Robinson Crusoe special issue by Claire Reddleman nearly out.
In the meantime, Nicole and my articles are free to read – https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449855.2023.2244204 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449855.20…
Migration, Logistics and Unequal Citizens in Contemporary Global Context
Happy to share that the article collection from the GHI special issue of Social Identities is now live at the following URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/csid20/collections/Migration-Logis…
Rodanthi Tzanelli – New Spirit of Hospitality: Designing Tourism Futures in Post-Truth Worlds
Tzanelli disturbs the normative premises on which much tourism and hospitality research are predicated to make space for imaginations whereby the represented can manage their representations, a…
If we had time to study, we might study this…
I was asked yesterday how I might explain the attraction of current right wing ideas and autocracy…: >> How do you explain the attraction of current right wing…
She-Kings – the animated series
1. https://youtu.be/9MGNaplm9Rc 2. https://youtu.be/gFDA6CzSRSc 3. https://youtu.be/LAnywT00GUk 4. https://youtu.be/rPptSyJjFjA 5. https://youtu.be/gFDA6CzSRSc Do watch these…
Nietzsche’s Bataille
‘On 21 January 1936, a prospectus presenting the Cahiers de Contre-Attaque was published; this leaflet announced the forthcoming issue of a Cahier devoted to Nietzsche with the following…
If commodities could speak… Amatav Ghosh drops a penny in his new book “Smoke and Ashes”
It is amazing to see the trinketization penny drop – more than 150 years after Marx had called it out – here is trinketization coming to consciousness, in…
Robinson Crusoe: After the Island
The third in a series of Robinsonades… Email me to get the pdf – and those for the two earlier iterations of my work on Defoe: here and…
Vale Don Miller
Apologies for writing what is not even a think piece, it is a bit raw: but I first got to know Don Miller at a series of astonishing…
Gillen dies
I expected it to end with Gillen’s death, but I had not anticipted being made a bit weepy by Baldwin Spencer (whose name graced various aspects of my…
The rumour of The Rumour of Calcutta is true
Seen in the wild in India//purchased with rupees by a close friend from a close friend who runs a bookstall – I notice the cover has with a…
Утро Индии Morning in India – 1956 film by Roman Karmen
Even greater than landing on the moon was throwing off the English yoke – reel two of this amazing film by Roman Karmen (4 parts from https://www.net-film.ru/) has…
What?? Defend Toko Buku Rakyat bookstore.
Image: Officers from the Malaysian Ministry of Home Affairs raiding Toko Buku Rakyat in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Peoples Dispatch) ~~~~ VIA Leftword: https://mayday.leftword.com/blog/post/b…
Robinson Crusoe; After the Island
New ink…
NIAS gone!
This is not at all good. Announcement: NIAS is closing down! Courage, cleverness and tenacity have not been enough. After years of spirited resistance, it is now time…