Mushies
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing has written an amazing book. The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015) is all about forests and foraging and revitalising teaching and diasporas…
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Prison Photography Reframed: Object and Method
Prison Photography Reframed: Object and Method 11 May 2018, Nottingham Contemporary, UK This one-day workshop brings together photographers, historians, criminologists and anyone interested in questio…
Volunteer Tourism
This volume had escaped my notice, and the introduction makes the rest look worth getting. Have a look here at WandaVrasti.
Critique of Marxist Musicology (lack in the Blak, Politics in the Lyrics, ears in the fears, bound to sound…)
Just catching up with critical appreciations. This: jazeel2005
Coppice.
This. Almost buried in Anna Tsing’s book of mushrooming (“The Mushroom at the end of the world: on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins” 2015 Princeton), a…
Burning bookshops is the new face of fascism, draped in a flag, and making America hate again.
Andy Zee talk worth hearing. The Joy of bookshops. I love it. They mean it – as he says, the place is named “revolution AND books”. Although a…
Thesis 11 on Adorno
Just catching up on Thesis 11 after many years, (ht Trevor Hogan). Articles: Antinomies of culture and critique of modernity: Evaluating György Márkus’s theory of culture from the…
Assembling the early 1990s again in Melbourne
There was a time when the Clever Country was the buzzword – in a time of buzzwords – the multifunction polis and the Precincts model were then fairly…
Smuggling – of tea to Scotland?
The Commission of Customs Scotland to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, reporting on the subject of trade with India, in 1812, examined Earl, Osborne and Ferrier (traders)…
Opium not as interesting as money for the parliament, even as…
Reading various Blue Books and the like, parliamentary reports. This one on the East India Company struck me as typical, though the clipped coins distraction is of course…
PubliCity (2005)
From the vaults…. Left Curve PubliCity section – commissioned brief pieces in a Zamisdat style. Left Curve was out of Oakland California (remembering Csaba Polony). lc29-publicity35pp-hutn…
Recent-ish occasionals
recent-ish pieces of blogablabba https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/bangladeshi-cinema-and-tanvir-mokammels-1971-a-review-of-john-hoods-the-bleeding-lotus/ https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2018/01/10…
Steve Redhead: Theoretical Times
I’ve read most of Steve Redhead’s work over the years. Maybe not all the Virilio stuff as I leave that to Sophie, but this is the next one…
Enviro-mental-ism
Want Electric Ride.
Semi-Feurdal Cyber-colonialism
Yes! thank you, Evers and Nordin [of course it is always slightly embarrassing to be posting citations, but the occasional acknowledgement of a phrase I particularly dwelt long…
Restored 18th century Danish tavern to be inaugurated today
[JH comment: now if you were plying the illicit opium trade on behalf of dodgy East India Company officials, you’d also need to stop by the Tavern and…
Klaus-Peter Koepping
Another obituary, this time in the Quarterly by Thomas Reuter. Time does not reconcile. The Quarterly Number 142/September 2017 In Fond Memory of… Klaus Peter Koepping passed away in…
Dark side of the Souvenirs
From ‘Souvenirs in Dark Tourism: Emotions and Symbols’ by J Cave, D Buda – The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies, 2018
Robinson Crusoe (1947 film)
I want to see this 3D Soviet 1947 adventure version discussed by Eisenstein as the way of the future – (non glasses stereoscopic) – Robinson Crusoe (1947 film)…
An export industry in ‘defence’ is a croc of shit – Turnbull comes the raw prawn.
Just in, the BBC misses the opportunity to call bullshit on Australia, which they can’t do of course because they also export ‘defence’ weaponry. Both as daft as…
Miniaturization is trinketization.
This looks great and would have been a good thing to attend, but my diary window – and budget – is far too small: *Small Interventions: Studies in…
On Madhava Prasad
an overdue appreciation. Read the rest of the review here, or below: In Cine-Politics: Film Stars and Political Existence in South India, film studies becomes politics, but also society,…
Supriya Choudhury
Originally posted on Talking about cinema: Saddened by the news of the demise of Supriya Choudhury this morning… She was one of those rare beauties to have ever…
Perception. A study in the obvious
Got this book long ago in Melbourne by explaining some of its fundamental problems as a text, and on that basis got it Half Price from the bookseller…