Immensely facilitated
VLUU L210 / Samsung L210 A scrap from a 1996 notebook, it was sent to the aut-op-sy listserve: In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels formulated a paragraph…
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Another Kind of Concrete
Another Kind of Concrete by Koushik Banerjea Started reading: I’ve been editing other people’s writing for a living for years, but the best writer with whom I’ve had…
Marx heroically caring for Jenny.
The doctor gives opium and Karl reports on the shits to Fred. There is nothing but sadness and tragic loss here, and of course he dies soon after…
Wish list – Nihon-go Marx
Authors I would like to read – English or Japanese pdfs please if you have them – (I may have some spellings wrong, I no longer know where…
Love Scams
My (online) bank sent me the following five-pointed warning message about people online wanting to scam money from me, but there is something suspicious about this because each…
On Bernard Stiegler’s Marx-ish Work
Nice guy as Bernard was, a little self absorbed should never be held against anyone who had to grow up in France, no? But many loved him, and…
Jobs you might not be as keen on despite the feels…
With posts like this postdoc below (at the admirable Claremont network, Pamona Liberal Arts), knowing of course that such jobs are too few and far between, I wonder…
Shopping is Civil War
Shopping is civil war. From No Orient – https://norient.com/video/shopping-is-civil-war Discussion of videos from: James Tuovinen 2013 Olimpia Splendid – Jukka Pekka Eric Wareheim 2014 Ham Vla…
Another Kind of Concrete – Koushik Banerjea
being ill is my excuse for catching up with novels, but I interrupt the stream of hackery to give a progress report on this as its the best…
Miner Riotinto is rotten and racist to the core.
From Crikey today : “DISTURBING” CULTURE AT RIO Tinto Mining giant Rio Tinto have released the shocking details of a company-wide cultural review, which found sexism, bullying, and…
Time, History, Politics, Art, Revolt – not being crushed to bits. This is a MUST SEE – of all things going on in the Integrated hyperventalated Spectacle this year, why, its Tom Buyard, a rare treat that will be worth doing the prep reading for and tuning in ready to roll.
Seriously do not miss this. Some call him Mr Modest, to others he is The Tattooist (with a nod to Raymond Redington’s Black List) but Tom Bunyards’s Spectacle/S.I.…
Two – allegorical
Ray’s France-Vietnam war allegory – h/t Pradip Baksi
Coconuts
Sir Fancis Drake – whose lucre profits helped Queen Elizabeth get out of debt and invest in the Levant and then the East India Company, from which in…
Cleaver: concluding thoughts
Cleaver leaves with a final bit about education in his conclusion that also seems sensible (if still US-o-centric) : ‘We have many potential allies among our schoolmates or…
More Cleaver on Students
There is room for more here, but quoting George Caffentzis helps: ‘Once you recognize the piecework character of the work of professors in universities, it is easy to…
Predator journals target ISSH2021 – be warned.
So, a process warning to those not used to getting chatty friendly emails from parasite journals that will charge you to publish. The ISSH2021 conference gets hit by…
Opium and Political Economy in Bengal
On why I think Marx’s writing style is misrepresented by the all-too-dour and serious commentators on Capital – you know, the famous ones published by big presses or…
For those about to be assessed, Harry Cleaver helps cut throught he must…
To those doing assignments, be it single or collective projects, here’s a reminder to resist the stress and do it for your own reasons. This is another condensed…
Opening ceremony of the 2nd International Conference on Innovations in The Social Sciences & Humanities 2021
From TDTU – https://www.tdtu.edu.vn/en/news/opening-ceremony-of-the-2nd-international-conference-on-innovations-in-the-social-sciences-humanities-2021 On the morning of December 17, 2021, th…
Leonid Kolishnikov honours Nguyen Phu Trong
https://en.nhandan.vn/politics/item/10921502-vietnam%E2%80%99s-party-leader-honoured-with-lenin-prize-of-russian-communist-party.html Vietnam’s Party leader honoured with Lenin Prize of Russia…
When Karl Marx Was Interested In ‘Nothingness’ Of Buddha
From: https://ipanewspack.com/2021/12/when-karl-marx-was-interested-in-nothingness-of-buddha/ IPA /IPA SPECIAL This item by Sankar Ray appeared Dec 13th. I’ve removed the ads (as there we…
ISSH2021 conference agenda and abstracts
Issh2021 conference-programmeDownload These are the abstracts and agenda for the 2nd International Conference on Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities 2021 (17th-18th Dec 2021). So…
Assange and how truth does not set you free
******************** On thursday 9th Dec 2021 the first 15 minutes of my lecture on Media outlined the reasons why the extradition of Julian Assange should be opposed and…