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…
Author: john hutnyk
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…
Reissue in India of The Rumour of Calcutta!
After 27 years… The Rumour of Calcutta: Tourism, Charity and the Poverty of Representation. Publication Day! This is the 30 year anniversary edition (well, 27 years) finally out…
50 years since the Australia army got out of Vietnam (though the rhetoric is still twisted).
“On Vietnam Veterans’ Day, 18 August 2023, a national commemorative service will be held in Canberra to recognise the 50th anniversary of the end of Australia’s involvement in…
Troublemakers well worth the catch up.
It was really great to catch up with a lot of people In Hsinchu last week, especially, after many years, the ever eloquent Ned Rossiter, and Brett Neilson,…
Indigenous Peoples’ Un-Freedoms
“Indigenous Peoples’ Un-Freedoms and Our Academic Freedom A Call for Solidarity” Not usually a petition signer, but in this case there is informative text and urgent reasons…. …
Spivak doing Spivak things
Once the preambles are done, there is hardly a sentence that could not be a credo, a warning, and an injunction to slow down and try to learn…
Ramon Karmen 1955 Vietnam
Magnificent colour film of Ho Chi Minh, Vo Nguyen Giap, and others, including the heroic fighters of Vietnam before, leading to, and after the victory at Dien Bien…
Two (Satyajit Ray 1963) and Amar Lenin (Ritwik Ghatak 1970) [for ease of access]
Article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649373.2023.2209434 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649373.2023.2209434 and This is it.