I do not have all of it in a nice neat single package – there should be 9 hours of love (what I do have is 9 hours…
From Volume 2, number 1 – 1989. Customs Review of Public CultureDownload
The Modern has seen better days. Astronomical sums would buy it. Raju is caretaking, but, well, unlike most of Kolkata which has a certain sheen of relevance and…
Timepass: having sat four days under the Bodhi tree in Bodhgaya and watched in procession: – an ant struggling to go the wrong way as hundreds of devotees…
See also: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649373.2024.2293553 Elemental structures of memory: Marston Mats in Vietnam and beyond – preprint Bardot with Marst…
This article, in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, is about heritage restoration according to old colonial protocols and myopias. Contesting entrepreneur-developers facing funder imperative…
On Adorno and Wagner for the journal Kaabigan: With Michael Roland F. Hernandez’s intro: “John Hutnyk’s meditation on Zukunftsmusik—Richard Wagner’s “music of the future”—provides a…
New article – this is about heritage restoration according to old colonial protocols and myopias. Contesting entrepreneur-developers facing funder imperatives, the article works through meaning…
A best yet marston mat helicopter landing pad from the stranded bunnies section of Apocalypse Now Redux (2001 edition). Not in any of the other editions, for reasons…
On January 3 2026, after the strike on Venezuela, Trump called up what I assume is now his second most favourite programme Fox and Freinds to say: “I…
Just to add to the frenzy; RIP. see original at (h/t Neil D): https://youtu.be/ai2As4XFZDY?si=g3zLRAGS_yumwvyl See also: More marsten mats One more on Marston Mats (perhaps my fav…
If you have any interest in electronic music, classical, experimental, or just music, or humanity, in general, today is the day to listen again to the works of…
In a perhaps misguided effort to preserve love of writing, enthuse about independent critical mental facility, to “exercise the metaphoric muscle”, as Mick Taussig would say, and just…
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/apv.12445?domain=author&token=4C3TESRPRVSEVSXAETSN Abstract: This paper considers a course on critical thinking in Vietnam with a case s…
I interviewed the much missed Keith Hart about a half dozen times across the last 30 or so years, each time planning to do something with it but…
Learning peace and acceptance in the toleration-negotiation-circulation saga. I bought a book online from an organisation in the Czech Republic and it arrived at my house a week…
Anyone who wants this should DM me for a copy of the journal version. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370237407_Studying_tourism_means_going_to_have_a_look_for_yourself_co-research_vu…
This is from the summer of 2025—attendance at two conferences, one Inter Asia Cultural Studies, the other on Islands at Jeju. A squib commentary, well organised events, notable…
from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (free download): 本書收錄 2019-2025 年發表於「衝突、正義、解殖」(CJD) 的著作，主題涵蓋以色列-巴勒斯坦戰爭、加沙的種族滅絕、巴勒斯坦的殖民結構，以及阿拉伯世界中的社會政治鬥爭歷史。 出版單位：國立陽明交通大學文化研究國際中心 全書開放下載…
Keith Hart 6th November & Paolo Virno on 7th November. Death is sad, but I imagine them plotting strategies on storming heaven and would love to read their…
1852 From the untroduction to The Literary Life of FvS Three brothers:
BOOK REVIEW: Ghassan Kanafani’s History Lessons 31 October 2025 by Jay Murphy Ghassan Kanafani, The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine, Background, Details, Analysis, transla…