Ton Kin Sing
The reek of confidence. Look out for the work of Édouard de Saint-Ours in the future. In a fascinating paper last night he showed many early photographs from…
Author: john hutnyk
Encoding Decoding
It was time to rewatch a great little project on Klaus Maeck’s Decoder by Megan Legault circa 2008
Study Study Study – then read like Bhagat Singh
Most interesting post of the day, and by far, has been this attached article on Bhagat Singh and anarchism, shifting to socialism. A few points fist though. I…
Robinson Crusoe – 1902
This version of Robinson Crusoe, by the immortal Georges Méliès, was made 1902. This 12 and a half minute hand-coloured nitrate print was rediscovered and restored in 2011.…
Letter to Jane
Lecture on Jean-luc Godard’s film “Letter to Jane” – much to discuss at TDTU.
“Saigon’s Penalscape: Interpreting Colonial Prisons in Vietnam” – first 50 Pdfs free
Your article, Saigon’s penalscape: interpreting colonial prisons in Vietnam, with Sophie Fuggle, is now published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Volume 23 Issue 3 Have you used your free eprints yet?…
HELEN MACFARLANE note
Note to a friend (also to me as placemarker): The Manifesto translation we have now seems pretty good, though I like the very first one in English in 1850, I…
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…
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…