‘Citizen Marx/Kane’ in “Marx at the Movies”, 2014
‘Citizen Marx/Kane’ – Hutnyk This chapter addresses the question of how, today, to start reading that rich book that is Marx’s Capital — of which an immense, even monstrous, accumula…
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Burroughs cartoon From Paris Review by Nathan Gelgud, adapted from Miles and Burroughs Esquire baboon Manifest.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/07/05/unconventional-part-4-william-s-burroughs-in-chicago/
Yemen
There is near silence about the war on Yemen led by KSA and UAE and supported by US, UK and France indicating the success of public relations bought…
Multitude redux Empire: wrong way, don’t go back, we should leave too.
People got wishful thinking a lot, and I am always for breaking the borders, but as this can be read from afar, I reckon yes, but the prognosis…
The museum of vernacular regeneration
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Training Adorno
Is it mean to advise someone wanting to write on sneakers to go and read Adorno? On trainers/sneakers, surely Adorno would be asking what is so secretive about…
Reblogged: useful list of Left History stuff
This is from Hatful of History. There was a time when links to these sorts of sites etc were a common thing on blogs, but even the ones…
“Poetry or Pogrom” – Interview at Erbacce Journal
Originally posted on debasis mukhopadhyay: I’m honored & deeply grateful to be the featured poet in Erbacce Journal (issue 55)! An interview followed by seven of my poems!…
Innovations… Conference 4-5 October 2019, TDTU, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities 4th and 5th of October 2019. Ho Chi Minh City, Socialist republic of Vietnam Welcome to the website for the conference Innovations in…
Marx in Calcutta, 2018, CITY, Vol 22 (4); 490-509.
Marx in CalcuttaCITY2018 Just click on the page to read the whole thing.
Ukraine.
I am on (of course) various lists like that of the Posadaists, so this is interesting because to my shame my best efforts to keep up have not…
Palma Africana – Taussig
For my notebook on glossy anthropology, this incandescent page from Michael Taussig’s New 2018 book discusses a brochure promoting the devil’s own crop – (the world choking slowly…
Prisoners of Love
Read the whole thing from Beyond Borders here: Prisoners of Love
Taussig’s negative sublime
From Palma Africana (2018) “irradiation of the negative sublime”… “With this admittedly top-heavy phrase I am referring to the death pall cast by the (X)paras and palm plantati…
Mela- Alexander
An article just appeared on mela which I had not seen when writing about mela films in Global South Asia on screen, but it looks pretty much on…
A World of Pain and Suffering and Dispossession: Remembering Sri Lankan Tamil Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide
Comrade Saleh Memon asks to repost this: A WORLD OF PAIN, SUFFERING AND DISPOSSESSION – REMEMBERING SRI LANKAN TAMIL ETHNIC CLEANSING AND GENOCIDE JULY 31, 2018 SALEH MAMON LEAVE…
MLP v Wonderland #mykidcoulddothat #prouddad
Art by Theodor Apollo (he dictated the text to me to save time – his creative process out-runs his letter-craft at this point – and I may not…
Protests in Vietnam (guest post)
Guest Post by Sally Mju About the current protest in Vietnam. I support and I do not support! This article is analyzed from the perspective of Karl Marx…
Articles to download
Downloads: Not sure if you need to make an account to get these, but it works for me.: Contexts for Distraction Henri, Tom, Hutnyk, John See details & download (PDF) 144…
Marx’s Library
From Old Beardo’s library (as listed in the MEGA), the following books related to India or the East India Company have underlining or marginalia by Marx, in blue…
Destruction of weavers
Their bones will, Marx says, end up bleached on the plains of Bihar. Here Ranajit Guha in 1956 examines how colonial policy and corporation demands destroy livelihoods and…
Kiwi, the imaginary ethnographer
this is, you know, pretty great. Please visit the show on the theme of Imaginary Ethnography in Experimental Music and Sound on the web space of Jeu de Paume: Fourth Worlds…
Indexing
The requirement imposed upon untenured ‘early career’ scholars to target only alleged “quality” publications is academic narrowcasting. Zines fall between the cracks of experim…