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…
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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 …
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Weekend cruise to Serampore, Chandernagore
I really want to go on this today : << this is an article from The Telegraph newspaper in Kolkata>> : The 11-hour ride, which will have its…
Ryazanov
Writing to a friend I fell down the Stalin rabbit-hole. It started off reasonably for a sunday evening, thinking, because of some translation work I am doing, that…
Reading/Translating Capital Yet Again
Historical Materialists presents a webinar on: “Reading/Translating Capital Yet Again” Speaker: John Hutnyk Faculty, Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam Moderator: Abhijit RoyFaculty, Jadavp…
Comparativism
In an essay last term, students Làu Cẩm Tú and Hồ Phạm Ngọc Trân brought out the problems and possibilities inherent in Ruth Benedicts work style – though there is…
FLP: Announcing the upcoming release of the Selected Works of Mao Zedong Vol. IX – Redspark
https://www.redspark.nu/en/theory/flp-announcing-the-upcoming-release-of-the-selected-works-of-mao-zedong-vol-ix/ This is how to do an announcement!. It is well worth reading for both what it says abo…
Blue Plaque for Ho Chi Minh
The blue plaque for Ho Chi Minh on the site of the former Carlton Hotel, where he worked as Van Ba. It is on New Zealand House in…
Introducing the Commodity — Capital Course – multiple iterations
The integument bursts asunder (worst translation ever of Marx) Die Hülle … wird gesprengt. – Discussion [coming out soon-ish]. Introducing the Commodity — Capital Course – multiple i…