Author: john hutnyk
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
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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…
Aaron Rosebury on Eleanor Marx
This is an interesting read: on-eleanore-marxDownload
Pawn or War Crime? – you choose who gets voted off the island (two votes allowed per person)
Secret weapons sales (not so secret) and fancy dress panto season – really beyond the pale (white supremacy evil tricksters all). Justification here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/1…
On taking a survey.
My favourite Warramiri (?) story from Arnhem Land is of a maths teacher out on a river one time teaching kids to measure distances – how far to…
Against Charity
I wrote my first book as a critique of charity work in Kolkata, India. I attempted a critique of western ‘charity’ workers helping those they saw as the…
Depression (not mine, ours)
Depression: I am no expert on depression, at all, but I also note that over the last two decades it has become a more visible topic of discussion…
Rosa on opium
Rosa Luxemburg The Accumulation of Capital, ch 18 “Consequently, a stricter law was passed [by the Chinese] in 1833 which made every opium smoker liable to a hundred…
Antique prints Dampier at Côn Đảo, reported sketch 1698
“Page no.297: ‘Een Jonk van Palimban.’ (Junk from Palimban on present day Sumatra, Indonesia). A scene that took place near Pulo Condore / Con Son Island an Island…
A glitch in the matrix / trumam
This was unnerving when talking sci fi. https://www.aakarbooks.com/details.php?bid=875
Privatisation of academia…
On the issues of weaponising research, this might be a minor quibble, but its part of the great restriction… Of course I like what academia-edu can do for…
Targets for pollution
If we are going to do maps, some sort of campaign aspect is implied. Here are ten areas of geocide to consider (a Daly is years of life…
Spivak On Revolution
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak | On Revolution
Waste theory
Examples of advice that may not be worth the paper they are written on… I was asked to suggest things to read for the topic: “junk content on…
Tipu Sultan’s rocket man
Great discussion of iron smelting for coins and guns by Amitabha Ghosh in Aniruddha Ray (ed) “Tipu Sultan and his Age” . Asiatic Society 2002, Park Street. Much…