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…
Author: john hutnyk
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…
Abolition
Abolish Prison. Get this journal:
scamming journalographica (trinketization at large)
Was helping a colleague find a place for a journal article. I thought a one day turnaround was rapid – its unlikely the article was read, only the…
Old Beardo
“Marx möchte sich seiner selbst vergewissern – und fasst einen seltsamen Entschluss. Am 28. April 1882, nachmittags um 16 Uhr, betritt er das Geschäft des Fotografen und Barbiers…
History tick tock
A somewhat strange take on the watch mechanism metaphor for history, and on village structure, from K.N.Chaudhuri. Asia Before Europe (explaining Braudel).
Marx on India in 1857
Marx writes to document the outrages committed by the British in retaliation for the uprising in 1857: “The Punjaub is declared to be quiet, but at the same…
What did Friedrich Engels have to say about Australia?
there was a series that Ben and Melitta used to include in Rabelais, along such lines – what did Lenin think of the Labor Party etc., I wish…
Jabs up to date? – better be, legacies of global beneficence and payback owed by anti-vaxxers.
This from Amiya Kumar Bagchi (2005: 86): ‘Inoculation against smallpox, a major killer in Europe up to the middle of the nineteenth century, was a practice imported from…
Handy hints on cracking up
F.Scott-Fitzgerald’s ‘crack-up’ as a model for going on with when needs must and all around have been ripping each other to shreds in a mass fraternal suicide: ‘I…
Touro-terror-ists
Good to see Terror and the Tour appear (in 2016 – I’m a little slow) in Liminalities journal and give Peter Phipps and Malcolm Crick a deserved nod, since…
Buy Books Not Bombs
Buy books at your local bookshop (UK) Ask for Pantomime Terror by John Hutnyk. Zero Books, 2014 ISBN-10: 1782792090 Ask for The Rumour of Calcutta by John Hutnyk. Zed books/Uni Chicago Press, 1996 ISB…