Frantz Fanon on Care:
‘To care for someone is not only to give him or her the possibility not to die, it is above all to give him or her the possibility…
Author: john hutnyk
Trinkets from Bác Hồ
Always on the lookout for the anthro connection, so this hit high on my trigger warning system: A gift from Uncle Ho to “Vuong Chi Sinh, a leader…
Derek Sayer. Ethnographic fragments #23: erasing history in San Francisco, censorship Canadian-style, and two women of courage and conviction – coasts of bohemia
Derek Sayer invokes Humphrey Jennings “Pandemonium” as explanation of how he sees his fragments [I read trinkets] series working. In particular these latest few seem worth the entry…
What did you do in the war…
Just out in History and Anthropology. Not my usual kind of thing, but experiments that might lead to a new thing… The first fifty 35 people to email me can…
Global South Asia On Screen: India only edition.
Available from Aakar Books Here. Rest of the world here (bloomsbury paperback in November) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4826-8949
trinkets not covered for removal
I am booking a removals company to move some stuff and reading their contract. Only one of the following prohibited items applies to this blog, but this is…
Veblen trinkets – irksomeness of labour
Thorstein Veblen discussing cultural practices before the advent of property, accumulation, branding, industrialiation and competition – the pathogens of the future are there in the collection o…
How to guides… Poppy cultivation
This amazing detailed description is from a book I had been battling to get hold of for a year or more – Amer Farooqui’s “Smuggling as Subversion” 1998:…
Sumanta Banerjee Marx adda
In one part of the recently translated Spooky Encounters, Sumanta Banerjee chats with the picnicking ghostly Marx and Engels about Indian food in London: “‘Fish-and-chips has almost disapp…
The Fantasist of Calcutta has a plaque
Atrocities and alibi’s for dirty colonial deeds of the ‘robber baron’ Clive and his mates. Here is a plaque for John Zephania Holwell, who wrote his dramatically claustrophobic…
The counter-revolution in Venezuela, by Saleh Mamon
https://salehmamon.com/2019/02/04/the-counter-revolution-in-venezuela/ The counter-revolution in Venezuela Hugo Chavez (1954-2013) The United States is putting in place its long planned intervention f…
Penal-izing poverty, drug retail and migrants – Louie Wacquant
Page 278 of Loic (Louie) Wacquant’s 2008 Book “Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality”. (Polity).
Marx Trot on again in 2019?
The Marx Trot is going to return in the summer 2019. Stay tuned for details. In the meantime, some old reading (the original posts have comments but…
cut from the draft of the pecuniary animus of the university…
We might consider the university as that space where the practice of education for life, with all its contemporary contextualisations, difficulties and possibilities, is a collective responsibility an…
“learned scribes” – Marx to Kugelman 1868
Marx writes to his publisher-friend to explain, clearly, why it is a critique of political economy: And then the vulgar economist thinks a great discovery has been made…
Slum tourism
I am gathering material for a review of this area and found a dissertation that discusses The Rumour of Calcutta: “Hutnyk (1996: 10) also states that the massive…
Schzmexit
More notes for the novel… Brexit schzmexit we need much more to fix it so that neither Tories or Labour can govern. While a Party of the New…
Minimalism
I want to keep this response handy. One may think that the essay form does not suit minimalism, and really you needed just to send a postcard. Something…
Pantomime Terror
This book is about storytelling and music video – well, also politics and terror, performance and television. HUTNYK_PANTOMIME TERROR The book tunes into music in three acts. I…
what do you call that reorder edit – on a crooked line of Marx
In Marx’s own copy of the 1867 edition of Capital, we can see he changes a few things. I wonder when. There are more changes in the copy…
Worker or Labour
Note for later… on the difference between worker and labour. Is it not obvious there are questions to ask here about demarcation – is a worker everyone under…
Rosa now more than ever
Rosa now more than ever Or why Rosa is someone who should be read at this point in time. To be a student of Rosa Luxemburg today is assisted hugely by the…
Boy Scout
“‘There is no document of civilization that is not simultaneously a document of barbarism‘” (Walter Benjamin Illuminations) William Burroughs’ annotated Boy…