Bad Marxism: Capitalism and Cultural Studies
a book from 2004 – people didn’t get the title that much, but Derrida, Bataille (the best bit is on Bataille – reclaimed for the left). From books4you.…
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Robinson on Con Dao
First 50 to click the url here get a free pdf – https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0967828X.2021.1994353#.YYVKsbiYIYQ.linkedin
Dark Tourism East and Southeast Asia at ASA 2021
This is the longer version, with all the discussion
Cuttings
I find it a little sad every time I’m compelled to cut a sentence that I really like because I’m the only one its effectively written for (if I…
Opium in HCMC
A lockdown post. Looking forward to continuing to explore the city one great meal at a time. Here are some of my notes on La Manufacture d’Opium, at…
World Rhino Day
The great Pachyderms (obsolete taxonomic category of old) – I’ve written about Ganda the rhino who circumnavigates Africa, from Gujurat to Marseilles in 1515, a gift from Sultan…
Trinketization 2021-09-08 13:57:56
A POTTED HISTORY OF THE 1990S BRITISH (SOUTH) ASIAN UNDERGROUND This is from Mix Mag. Fantastic to see. Except for the annoying subscribe pop ups, the content and…
No Olympics
Because of the money-suck, the corporate sponsorship (riotinto making the medals in London), the fake moralism about drugs, the ‘security’ policing, the clearing of the inner city of…
Bandung Spirit Bulletin #2
This is well worth a look (not only for the conference ad it has): https://bandungspirit.org/
Stolen temple bell and replica cannon. Opium and Crimean War relics in Nottingham.
Grey rainy day walk with the kids in the Arboretum of Nottingham, the city’s first park set out mid 19th Century. The park contains a monument to the…
Repost: for the Olympics and the Nostalgia…
Some notes from 2012… Gunnersbury Bagh. (Kill your darlings 10) 26/04/2017 ~ JOHN HUTNYK ~ [A set of cuts that jettison the last underworked section of the book – residue of…
Japan – Vietnam archives
Another set of items for the exotica files (link below), is a set of documents held in the national Archives of Japan and I think very useful for…
Bataille and anti-fascist politics.
Pretty happy to see this taken seriously. Its like I was waiting for someone to reach for the falling penny. When it happens, its come with a whole…
Saurabh Dube. Post/de/colonial.
This is an actual event – by which I mean an important discussion that makes important moves, negotiates languages and ambiguities of the decolonial/postcolonial/colonial. There is good material…
Letters
Die Komödie des Despotismus, die mit uns aufgeführt wird … Der Staat ist ein zu ernstes Ding, um zu einer Harlekinade gemacht zu werden. Man könnte vielleicht ein…
Lost in the supermarket
https://norient.com/video/shopping-is-civil-war https://norient.com/video/shopping-is-civil-war
Lost Blue Books of India
NINTH ALL-INDIAORIENTAL CONFERENCE TRIVANDRUM DECEMBER 20th to 22nd 1937Observations taken more than acentury ago, these* papers describe many things which areno longer actual, and they are become rec…
Further fun with Blue Books
It seems in Sri Lanka a holy text was burnt… a ‘heretical’ text brought from Benares, but not burnt before it inspired the king (Kumaradasa) and some devoted souls……
Colonial Hyperbole, with gaps
There are some crimes that are longer-term than others… As I am finding from spending part of the morning exploring archival images, such as this one. A ‘British…
Class – and critique – in Bad Marxism, poking fun.
I was looking something up and stumbled upon a quote of me that I did not recognise – that class ‘does not make much sense’. I am pretty…
The Rumour of Calcutta: Tourism, Charity and the Poverty of Representation
Reposted from three years ago because – the stats tell me – at least one copy has been downloaded every day this month. Either its a dedicated bot…
Kill your Darlings again: Spike Lee’s faulty reparations
Another paragraph on the cutting floor: Compared to prison memoirs, accessibility to the American reconstruction of the war is abundantly available in a series of blockbuster films (besides…
Spivak – citizen as agent
If you joined the Handbrick of Marxism book-launch with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak last evening you will have seen her talk on citizens as agents, global Marx, supplementing vanguardism…
Conference Proceedings ISSH2019
Conference Proceedings ISSH2019 Innovations in the Humanities and Social Sciences conference October 2019 Ton Duc Thang University – Conference Proceedings in full. Indexed in the Clarivate ISI …