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…
Author: john hutnyk
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
When the press covers news
Katie Sims / Sun Staff Photographer ROHINGYA Prof Urges Students to Consider Oppression of The Rohingya By Victoria Moore The Rohingya crisis has been termed a “textbook example of…
Mr Ram Nath Kovind, President of India, There are many in your jails, but some I have invited for talks at University of London several times. This requires your immediate action sir. Thank-you.
LETTER FROM PROF G N SAIBABA FROM INDIAN PRISON Letter from Sai written on 17th October received on 25th October 2017 Dear Vasantha I am frightened to think of coming…
Max Weber on India Key References
At the bottom of one of my shelves, unopened since undergraduate honours days, I have Max Weber’s book on Religions of India. got to wondering recently how he…
Reading UNESCO’s 2017/8 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report
https://en.unesco.org/gem-report/ Don’t just blame the teacher when the system is at fault, says UNESCO …. The Report calls on governments to: 1. Design accountability for schools and teachers…
Review of Zoogenesis: Thinking Encounter with Animals
http://www.depauw.edu/humani…/issue%2017/calarco-iveson.html Or here (PDF): http://www.depauw.edu/…/issue%2…/pdfs/calarco-iveson-pdf.pdf ‘Life and Relation Beyond Animalization’ by …
More Marx on Slavery
This fascinating article by Marx was in The People’s Paper, March 1953, and earlier in the NYDT, and about a third of it was carried over into Das Kapital (p758…
Indian Cinema
Reminder to self. Go back and watch more of the wonderful archive that is https://indiancine.ma Such a bunch of tollylicious fun.Filed under: elephant, film, India
Great interview with Jay Murphy on Artaud’s Metamorphosis and more.
Read this super informative interview by clicking on the image below (but be sure to still buy the book as there is much more good stuff there) Filed…
Angela Nagle on Mark Fisher.
A worthwhile, slim book. Overly dissected by sectarian and signalling types, but worth the late read. Filed under: trinketization
Surplus value and care
D.D.Kosambi’s summary of Buddhist political economy circa 500bc. From ‘The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline’ 1964. (P113 1996 reprint by Vikas Publishi…
Statues – 1970 Kolkata.
Mrinal Sen’s great film Interview begins with a few shots of the removal of colonial statues from the Maidan in Calcutta, shipped off to a closed space in…
Blackboard Capital
Filed under: capitalism, historical, Marx, marxism, media, teaching
Enoch Light – Command Records
Originally posted on Ear Conditioning: “Mira ese discos” said Jotti, the proprietor of Aguere Music Shop in La Laguna, as he dropped a few records in front of…
Bollywood and women
For the reminder files, an email response to a student met doing Capital in India proposing a PhD on women in Bollywood. I'm not sure I'm the one…
Glimpses from Calcutta’s Old Chinatown: The Oldest Chinatown outside Southeast Asia
Originally posted on Encounters: India has a long history of commercial and cultural contacts with mainland China. Chinese communities had, therefore (mostly temporarily) settled in different ports al…
Defoe on prisons 1698
Defoe, as a good Protestant, was of course keen to remedy the ‘torrent of vice’, ‘venal crime’ and ‘Epidemick Distemper’ that afflicted the nation with ‘wicke…
English heritage trinkets
Apparently on sale at National Trust sites are mugs with this marking underneath. Thanks Katherine S for the pointer. My view is to welcome this as an historically…