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?…
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…
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…
The full wraparound cover: https://www.aakarbooks.com/details.php?bid=875
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…
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)&…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
sometimes these maps are so pro-capital its embarrassing. This one is of course, but its also informative. Here are the paths of need and greed, crime and time…
I approached the bookseller to ask for 50% discount on this book because of its major flaw. Can you see it? Would you pay full price for this,…
I’ve not yet lit the Stalin candle. #trinketization
… all around Australia, he lost his pants in the middle of France and found them in Tasmania. Or: Captain Cook rode a chook down the Murray River.…
https://www.facebook.com/DoubleDownNews/videos/254114986690397/ Presented by Andrew Feinstein, former ANC, Corruption Watch and anti Arms Trade Campaigner. This is not much about Emma Watson as ab…
The news cycle forgets too often, but this https://m.economictimes.com/news/india/mawsynram-and-cherrapunjee-together-get-more-rainfall-in-a-day-than-entire-countrys-average-in-june/articleshow/9…
Well, this is a new blip on the slow process of getting people paid recognition for work. There are a few other things like this – eg the…