Of course the screen has long been a global industry with a global logistics, and every ‘international’ production – a movie, drama or news – involves battalions of…
Despite the geopolitical machinations of superpowers and regional interests, there has been through the crises of imperialism, WW2 and the independence period, a parallel progressive leftist culture r…
A dump post for bits cut from a manuscript. So yes, I will not be talking about Bababababadiouuuuu. But leave it here in case I need to retrieve…
This phrase was used on the BBC world service a few times yesterday in reference to the ban on laptops and other devices from some airports on some…
If in Florida, get to this on March 24 2017 at 8pm, at: 265 Aragon Ave Coral Gables, FL 33134 (Click here to go to the website): Filed under:…
For those in need of an alternative to Gurinder Chadha’s Viceroy’s House, in April 2017 we will get the Hindi film Begum Jaan, I hope soon also for a UK…
:: Prepare yourself for trauma. John Hood’s book The Bleeding Lotus: Notions of nation in Bangladeshi Cinema (2015, Palimpsest) is not intended primarily as a gore-fest horror but…
With a funky graphic interface (this screenshot does not do it justice – click through to the site) – Anand Patwardhan, Shyam Benegal, Paromita Vohra and more: Filed…
One of Indian Judicial Systems Most Shameful Decisions since 1947 : DU professor GN Saibaba and four others get life sentence for ‘Maoist links’ Democracy and Class Struggle…
Pretty excited to find parts of the FilmIndia archive online, especially 1948 with a (idiosyncratic) review of Sunny’s Mela (stars Nargis and Dilip Kumar). Also I am quite taken…
Originally posted on trinketization: For an explanation of Trinketization – never fully codified as yet – you might start with the following old posts such as: Note 33: Trinketization…
Here’s SCROTUS warning us of the pantomime terrorism situation in Sweden. The double speak bubbles capture his discourse with uncanny accuracy. People may think this is kids stuff,…
This is from E-flux: Dheisheh Refugee Camp. Photo: Luca Capuano. Refugee Heritage, a new project by DAAR The Architecture of Exile IV. B: February 24, 7pm, with Suad…
This will just get bigger: https://vimeo.com/143457145 (This video promotion was authorised by the public campaign to abolish amnesia in parliamentary circus politics. Committee to reelect the candida…
Really? Heh heh. From the Bee Movie: And from Avatar: Nothing if not populist. Who said kids wouldn’t pour over this speech for years to come? Course they…
Of haircuts and Rhino coats… This is the worked up text of a talk I gave in Chandernagore in February 2016. The photo is one I’ve failed to trace…
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Can’t imagine the mad thinking behind this branding. In several ways a sign of the downward spiral. Or, a niche marketing gambit. What next: administrative razor blades, higher…
This is it – Jay Murphy’s book is out. Use the pavement site because postage is included… Artaud’s Metamorphosis: From Hieroglyphs to Bodies without Organs by Jay Murphy…
Tracking down the old man’s arrival records from Europe to Australia. He was a violent drunken shit, but I do appreciate at least his refrain about how we…
A great new book from Pavement Books: by Jay Murphy £18.99 (inc. postage) ISBN: 978-0-9571470-9-6 Despite being one of the most influential artists and writers of the mid-20th…
A pleasure indirectly paid for, as were his studies at Oxford, with profits from the East India Company opium trade via both his uncle Preston and his benefactor,…
(This very impressive reading list from the USA compounds). ((Such scholarship needs to be replicated for other places. And start with the prison support stuff)) http://www.aaihs.org/prison-abolition-…
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