The Rumour of Calcutta update
27 22 years ago my first book was typeset and laid out in the days before electronics – well, an electric typesetting machine was plugged into a wall,…
Author: john hutnyk
Marx and South Asia
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies vol 1 2023…
đường dây Côn Đảo
Great! Just great. Director: Lam Son (AKA Bùi Sơn Duân, 1932-2001). Writers: Nguyen Huy Khanh and Vu Hanh, starring Thuy Lien as Tuyet Mai, Ha Van Buu as…
Foreigners and (merely trifling … criminal) ideology in poetry: Note for a future appreciation of Aragon that will likely never appear…
From Louis Aragon’s epic History of the USSR 1962 (1964) “Although it may have been necessary to remind creative artists and writers of the national context of art…
Adorno on youth and discipline – whats not to love here
“There is absolutely no question that productive thinking today can take the form only of one that works through breaks and fractures, whereas any thinking which is simply…
Stepan Georgevich Shaumian – not to be forgotten.
Besides the usual wiki stuff, I would welcome any recommendations on Shaumian. Or Shaumyan as Louis Aragon spells his name in The History of the USSR (1962) –…
Notes on Beuret.
An annotation of someone’s article abstract is probably a bit unfair. I’ve managed some awful ones myself. Sigh. Here I was, stuck in a long meeting, listening to…
Godard’s “British Sounds” link updated
Godard “British Sounds” From 2009: You can find Jean-Luc Godard’s “British Sounds” in all its glory now. It is worth watching all the way through – from the…
Avatar 2 indulgences
Avatar 2 seems like its channeling every Hollywood Vietnam War fantasy ever – what is up with that? Western cowboy military in the delta and includes an apocalypse…
materialism and truth
Do we spend too much time worrying about truth and its manipulation of the senses, priority of matter etc., Rene Descartes owes us much as the destructive consequences…
Riotinto – multi-scalar defeat, yaay!
This one is a welcome defeat for the mining corp… See more on riot Tinto on this blog here: https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/?s=Riotinto (note, reposting this article is not meant to…
Pirate Reboot – Occupy Madagascar
Graeber, David. 2023. Pirate Enlightenment, Or the real Libertalia. London: Allen Lane. In this entertaining book, the world of early eighteenth century Madagascar piracy, and the women they…
Elephant in the room: Suzi Quatro’s Primitive Love is better than Fleetwood Mac’s rip-off Tusk.
Convince me otherwise. 1973 for Quatro, 1979 for F.Mac. 1973 1979
Comparative Adversaria – of Gandhi and Marx
<first 50 copies online free – click this link> https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HSKSEYWUIKXDZHP8E2SN/full?target=10.1080/14649373.2023.2156129
Post- Eiffel??
A comment in David Biggs’s, generally very engaging, 2010 book Quagmire. One part early on seemed to clang like a cheap scooter hitting the railings of an old…
Marx in Algeria – the penultimate trip
In a post script to a letter he sent before leaving Algeria in his penultimate year, Marx, is recovering, a little, from pleurisy, and trying to enjoy himself –…
Maison Centrale de Saigon // General Sciences Library
Trying to read in the library but looking out the window at the reminder that this is no ordinary library experience. A few parts from a recent text:…
hypnotextiality syndrome
starting to see text everywhere, been editing other peoples work much.
Goofy was a plant.
“one half of them who perish in London, dye of Phthisical and Pulmonic distempers; that the inhabitants are never free from Coughs” John Evelyn 1661 The biggest trick…
Slurs
Defoe is as good at mocking Robinson as anyone, despite swallowing a thesaurus. In volume three: ”poor, wild, wicked Robinson” (316) “a churl, a morose, sour disposition, a…
Kureishi metamorphosis
This is Hanif Kureishi’s study, and I am looking forward to his next book that will be greater than Kafka’s Gregor Samsa, with Italianate stylings. He had a…