Writing on the ways the changes in museum display can be understood as a record of political and economic, especially colonial, articulation (without insisting there are any direct…
. There is no retrospective model of a lost ‘American freedom’ that can be sustained in front of the evidence of Trump and his diametrical channelling of the…
Thomas Mouat Tate, with a cuppa and (ship)mates was, he said, taken in Malta in May 1942. They are, I expect, quite jolly since they will have just…
This is the playlist link for 30 Minute Methods 30 Minute Methods is a series of short talks by sociologists, anthropologists and film/media researchers where the debate about…
Recorded February 18 2025 at Ton Duc Thang University, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities.
So looking back and various snipsnaps from 2005, here are some more squibs urban pathology FEAR All we need is Radio Ga Ga
From: https://www.mekongeye.com/2025/02/17/banana-soil-bust-2 This article from Mekong Eye I want to read later, so since evernote is not working I am putting this here for now: “OU…
Progress Press Moscow was the light.
This was done as a sampler almost a year back – the longer version gets more into the Civil Rights Movement as well as the work of Theodor…
This old poster is on a notice board outside the old council houses across the road from my flat – its survived 20 years or so I guess…
The Sundarbans: Where anthropology meets history in recounting the riverine delta – Sundarbans: Nơi nhân học gặp lịch sử trong việc kể lại vùng đồng bằng ven sông…
… is a first edition, from 1970, of what became the amalgamation of several chapters of “Be Here Now” by Baba Ram Dass aka Richard Alpert. I get…
Saw a young lad today dressed in the full spiderman kit that seems to be a constant, yet one part of the cannon/lore/cult that I always think of…
Sorry, had put this on youtube but not on here – multisocialmediafail# – but what a good talk!
RAAF Squadron Leader Keith “Bluey” Truscott taxiing his P-40E Kittyhawk along the Marston Mats at Milne Bay Fighter Strip #3, Milne Bay, New Guinea, Sep 1942. Some slightly…
From Marx’s London Notebook no b63 Heft LXIV – the last four pages on Francois Bernier on India. As Engels several times says, the handwriting is impossible. ARCH00860.B_63…
some random thoughts on coffee… My interest is more (only) as a consumer, but coming from Australia, the speciality coffee thing seems to have hit early with the…
Since this weblog will be 20 years old in August, some of it will be selectively recycled into pulp, even as much of it was already pulp at…
Dow chimicals… grrrr. but there is a backstory to this despicable substance, I cannot yet see a full version of Pantelis Vougaris’ film With Heart and Soul (- yet,…
Remembering serving on this film festival doco jury. A great experience: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/docu-on-kol-filmmakers-karbala-journey-wins-award/articleshow/87875803.cms …
‘There are not many mistakes as significant as the conception that class consciousness is a matter of morality’ (Reich [1935] 1971: 24) < the one who must steal…
Sure, rescuing Matt Damon from Mars is easier than fixing Earth, but planetary survival is imperative and cannot be left to NASA’s zero-gravity speculative research project or the…
The Entanglement If the 18th century gave us the Enlightenment, which was a mixed blessing, as they say, what are we to make of what the 21st century…