Built on silt, but gold.
Calcutta Research Group Talk JH and questions for the Making and Unmaking of Cities series of CRG, done March 29 2025 (but the intro promised Samata Biswas but…
Calcutta Research Group Talk JH and questions for the Making and Unmaking of Cities series of CRG, done March 29 2025 (but the intro promised Samata Biswas but…
History ain’t what it was. Here is the great historian of India, Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi, with an amazing caption for an illustration of a water buffalo: “Water-buffalo (p.…
The kind people at Heidelberg dug this out of the drawer the mice keep for snacking in the lean times. I did not have a digital copy before…
Cyber feudalism, techno corvée, or semi feudal cyber colonialism. Why feudal now? because the resistance levels are in an ebb the oppressive apparatus access tried and true modalities…
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/BYWRD9F7JJPIYUBJGNUX?target=10.1111/apv.12445 Or email me for the usual rapid response avalanche of wordage.
. A small tube–house café near the edge of campus, the front ground floor open and front and back balconies clear on three sides, with people sitting reading…
Ego–posturing thoughts (not just mine) assail me, perhaps it is also a demented notion, but what if … that by necessity henceforth everyone had to write all the…
There are many dimenesions of Nancy Cunard, born on this day, 10 March, in 1896. She wrote “These were the hours”, about her publishing imprint, through which she…
… We used to write letters to mobilise the comrades, by hand, on letterhead, with biros, put em in envelopes, lick stamps and then carry them to the…
english subs are hard coded on all three
Article by R V Bianchi: Marxist Political Economy and Tourism “The dearth of Marxist theorising in tourism remains something of a mystery, not least given that it has…
Boy Scout . The image above is on repeat – uncanny since now they’ve all got patched in – the ‘same’ publicity photo was again released by HS…
Writing on the ways the changes in museum display can be understood as a record of political and economic, especially colonial, articulation (without insisting there are any direct…
. There is no retrospective model of a lost ‘American freedom’ that can be sustained in front of the evidence of Trump and his diametrical channelling of the…
Thomas Mouat Tate, with a cuppa and (ship)mates was, he said, taken in Malta in May 1942. They are, I expect, quite jolly since they will have just…
This is the playlist link for 30 Minute Methods 30 Minute Methods is a series of short talks by sociologists, anthropologists and film/media researchers where the debate about…
Recorded February 18 2025 at Ton Duc Thang University, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities.
So looking back and various snipsnaps from 2005, here are some more squibs urban pathology FEAR All we need is Radio Ga Ga
From: https://www.mekongeye.com/2025/02/17/banana-soil-bust-2 This article from Mekong Eye I want to read later, so since evernote is not working I am putting this here for now: “OU…
Progress Press Moscow was the light.
This was done as a sampler almost a year back – the longer version gets more into the Civil Rights Movement as well as the work of Theodor…
This old poster is on a notice board outside the old council houses across the road from my flat – its survived 20 years or so I guess…