Bác Hồ’s Security Detail Lesson
Theodor is in grade 2 of primary (7 years old) and they study Ho Chi Minh thought. Here is an example of their little parables about Bác Hồ…
Author: john hutnyk
Hybridity in music – for Cello.
This was a surprise, at the least: Solo Cello String Ensemble (4-4-4-3-2) c. 25 minutes https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5c04v6g3 “Clifford uses the word to describe ‘a discourse that is…
Vietnam v. Covid19 (1-0)
Advanced, Proactive Measures: How Vietnam Kept Its Coronavirus Death Toll at Zero 02-Jun-2020 Intellasia | News18 | 6:02 AM When the world looked to Asia for successful examples…
Hybridity again
Great to see old stuff taken up in religious studies – where after all, I had my first job, thanks max Charlesworth and Purushottoma Billimoria, so a sort…
Don Miller’s new book! Time and Time Again
via Don Miller’s new book! Time and Time Again Don Miller was the mystical magical master of metaphor at Melbourne Uni in the politics department when it was…
Rio Tinto: the Highest stage of rampant plunder Capitalism of the very worst kind
by Calla Wahlquist @callapilla Rio Tinto blasts 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site to expand iron ore mine Mining company was given permission to blast Juukan Gorge cave, which provided a…
Domesday’s eastern roots.
It seems like that old “goodness gracious me” sketch about the funny uncle that was claiming everything in Britain was ‘Indian’ was, – yup, Indian – accurate after…
Back cover copy for the 25th-anniversary edition of Rumour of Calcutta?
Highly unlikely, but if there were to be a collection of quotes for such an edition, this fine example would do very well as a back cover quote…
Release G.N. Saibaba
Many times mentioned on this blog, it is now more relevant than ever to write and support comrade Sai Baba whose conditions, like so many prisoners, are inhumane.…
Recent stuff to read
Co research in Vietnam for the anthropology classroom with Do Thi Xuan Huong, In Education Philosophy and Theory, 2020, with supplement rept_a_1752187_sm3452 The Pecuniary Animus of the University in …
Co-research in Vietnam for the anthropology classroom
New paper: Co-research in Vietnam for the anthropology classroom Do Thi Xuan Huong & John Hutnyk 50 free ‘eprints’ for those who want to read it now –…
The Rumour of Marx. Happy May Day.
Emailing a friend today – a Leftist of significant standing, and seven decades – who has found joy in reading Marx after attending a workshop here. She writes:…
1988 fieldwork with Patrick Swayze.
Full story here: The Rumour of Calcutta
150 years: now more than ever.
Happy 150th Birthday Vladimir I Lenin.
Honky Tonk University
As I was chatting to Tony who wanted an update, here it for economies sake for the family and friends too: we are in week 12 of homeschooling.…
Walter Benjamin and Asja Lācis
Well, he might be the ‘Marxist you can take home to meet your mother’ (as Vijay Prashad once said to me) but here some Benjamin, plus one –…
Vietnam – Brazil
Comparative. Who’d have thought to do this one – but, its done, and there’s an intriguing and generous review – of J. Warren’s Cultures of Development: Vietnam, Brazil,…
exoticism, revolutionary tourism, solidarity
What does solidarity look like? There have not been enough in the way of critiques of revolutionary tourism, of the exoticist trap of romanticising rebel movements abroad while…
Robinsonades: we are all a bit Robbo now.
Several Robinsinades are coming soon. But folks seem a bit confused about which Daniel Defoe to get into right now. As the world splutters towards total collapse, I…
A bleeding process with a vengeance
There are few better descriptions of colonial extraction than this one where Marx eviscerates the Brits in India. He was on the case right till the end, in…
Marx 200 in China
I confess to ill-discipline at times, I think I enjoyed this anime from China far too much – on the 200th birth anniversary, so a bit dated, but…
The end of Representation
Originally posted on Trinketization: answers to all questions about trinkets, and Capital.: The end of Representation I have taught a lot of great students in my (eight!) years…
The Pecuniary Animus of the University
After some time, and somewhat shorter (tighter) edited to be less of a devotional prayer for Thorstein Bunde Veblen, this piece – The Pecuniary Animus of the University…