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…
Author: john hutnyk
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…
The Discovery of India – Nehru (Roshan Seth)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PL1EG23oYcaFu6SNAiofd0uco0sD0JeVji¶ms=OAFIAVgB&v=4f6vdW91hLA&mode=NORMAL https://youtu.be/4f6vdW91hLA?list=PL1EG23oYcaFu6SNAiofd0uco0sD0JeVji Filed und…
Backpackers in Calcutta again
From: The Global Nomad: Backpacker Travel in Theory and Practice edited by Dr. Greg Richards, Dr. Julie Wilson 2004 And From: A Common Mission: Healthy Patterns in Congregational…
Cartographic Abstraction in Contemporary Art: Seeing with maps
Claire Reddleman’s new book ‘Cartographic Abstraction in Contemporary Art: Seeing with maps’ is out now from Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies! Claire Says: “It’s all about…
Spivak: What time is it on the world clock?
Spivak on time, speaking on education and critiquing the knowledge management toolkit template at die Akademie des Verlernens unlearning academy. Has some anecdotes of crying boys and vids…
Factory Inspections, in Chicago and more
Click on the link to go to the site. And a huge number of other report on Inspections here: And how about this one? Women in the…
Opening books
Good to be on the same page as Steve Redhead. Thanks Tara Brabazon, from her book “The University of Google: Education in the (Post) Information Age” By Tara…
The Rumour of Calcutta
Reviews of a twenty year old book. Yup, Thanks heaps: Filed under: books, calcutta, tourism
Turkey.
Gah. Still. No. Change. >Subject: Call for solidarity for the academics for peace on trial Dear colleagues, Our colleagues in Turkey are facing incredible repression under a populist…
Danish Tavern Serampore
Danish tavern decked up to start second innings in Serampore Ajanta Chakraborty| TNN | Nov 21, 2017, 04:53 IST KOLKATA: The double-storey Denmark Tavern, which was in a shambles till a…
Reminder to self to read this again, and again (3 times and it might stick). Spivak’s telegraphed coda.
From the essay ‘What’s Left of theory?’ In An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalisation. Spivak 2012: 216-7.Filed under: marxism, Spivak, trinketization
Karen Tam opiumartifacts.
Opium dens taking over galleries has a perfect beauty. I was reminded telling a friend about this and thought it was time once again for another promo…
Do you remember when Australia did this for CHOGM? So its not just a ‘commonwealth’ thing.
Urban beauty. I dunno if I am more disgusted by this event with Ivanka or the WP’ article’s failure to do proper comparative memory work – since I…
Red Tape – Local/Global Culture Visual
Video of a talk with Chris Pinney, Rian Hughes and others http://redtape.rca.ac.uk/2012_02.html Local/Global: The role of culture in the creation and reception of visual communication Performing Art L…
Marx on the future and present ‘collective worker’.
From capital vol 1 p490 Filed under: capitalism, Marx