maoistroad: Stop Operation Green Hunt! MalkaNGIRI & Bhopal
“Why are some lives cheaper than others? Looking at the brutal extra-judicial killings in Malkangiri and Bhopal In the last few weeks, two brutal killings sent shockwaves through…
Author: john hutnyk
Alliances not self promotion. Bataille would already have joined
Dear comrades on my news feed, Am sure you probably already will have seen this but I’m sending it out in place of any comment about either Trimp…
Get Heartfield.
Got to get this: Buy hereFiled under: historical, politics
“First Strike”
First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles Damien M. Sojoyner Challenging perceptions of schooling and prison through the lens of America’s most populous state Taking an insider’s…
GRIL – Stoler “Duress”
A glitch in child sleeping patterns, and unemployment, means I’ve had a lot more time to think (and rethink) and of late get to read. So much so,…
Zombiiiiieeees Aiiiiiiiiii
Another volume on the horror that keeps giving (accounts of capital and how bad it is – figure people gonna wake up and do owt? Not holding my…
Once Within Borders
Another book to get, this one on borders – gonna review it: Read More here: Throughout history, human societies have been organized preeminently as territories—politically bounded regions whose…
Marx Eco Critique
Looking forward to reading this next year (not looking forward to paying 29 bucks – is this the save tries pricing? And is it an eco gamble to fix…
Captured: Documenting Incarceration | Nottingham Contemporary
Captured: Documenting Incarceration. Events – Talks Captured Documenting Incarceration 04 Nov 2016 – 05 Nov 2016 A two-day documentary film event featuring screenings,…
Class / segmentation / racialization. Notes – Lucha No Feik Club
If the working-class has always been segmented, we must then contextualize this segmentation, which is to say we must situate it within the general form of the contradiction…
Trinketization gets a museum treatment…
HKW | Sharon Macdonald, Tony Bennett & Arjun Appadurai – THING http://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/veranstaltung/p_128503.php © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum, Martin F…
Begging Wars: Nottingham Police’s dodgy Prince tribute
update 1 October 2016 – banned by the advertising standards agency. Took long enough, and only 4 out of 5 of them were banned, dunno what the other…
Immigration Corbyn
How does JC superstar reconcile this week? Is it that he is crafting soundbites for different audiences (or as preparation for conference did he finally read ch 25…
Winston
War criminal notes. Someone scratched out his eyes. Apparently when the note is wet and rubbed with a coin, the ink comes off. Still legal tender – money…
Orientalism for kids – again
Am gearing up for another round of kiddy tv and hoping there are new programmes since the mind worms of Iggle Piggle and Peppa Pig did their damage. This…
Grunwick +40 – 22.7.16
Event not to be missed: Grunwick and Lucas 40 Years On: Union Rights, Workers’ Control Screening of The Year of the Beaver and The Lucas Plan, with discussion…
First words
The first four words of chapter one volume one in Marx’s Capital are ‘The Wealth of Societies’, surely echoing, as Spivak notes, Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the…
Automation and the Future of the University
Conference in Durham deserves your attention… Attendance at the workshop is free but registration will be required, since places are limited. For enquiries and registration, email gerald.moore@d…
Island Story: Journeys Through Unfamiliar Britain, JD Taylor
Just started JD Taylor’s book, bought in Waterstones sociology section yesterday. Brilliant. I mean, the placing of this book in that shelving – shame its four floors up…
MythGeographies – walking stuff
this came through today, and is interesting enough to recycle. I hope they will not mind, given a certain promotional tone, I suspect not. Dunno exactly how or…
Reading Capital in Nottingham – every wednesday, 11am-2pm, from July 20 until 28 Sept, 2016
20 Jul 2016 – 28 Sep 2016 Join us for a ten-week course on Karl Marx’s Capital Volume 1 Reading and writing with Professor John Hutnyk, in collaboration…
Marx Trot Sunday August 14, 2016 #Marx #walkingtourlondon
This year the Marx Trot is planned for August 14, 2016 Meet 1pm Archway Tube. bring enthusiasm, vox pop speechifying, money for drinks, drinks, sunscreen (we hope we…
Shopping is Civil War (with videos)
Here from the NoOrient site is my commentary on some recent shopping trips… Filed under: commodity, music, trinketization
trashed film paragraph on Reagan-Arnie-Trump
I dunno where else to dump this, which will now not be used in a review I was writing on regional film traditions: Yet here is a topic…