Rereading Ranajit Guha so remembering this…
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frayed at the edges (me – not her) but the weft and weave was the start, misdirected, of what turned out to be an absolutely revealing and fantastic…
“In ‘The Working Day’, Marx reports that the appointment of Mr. H. S. Tremenheere as Commissioner of Inquiry coincides with the occurrence of “several public meetings and ……
This evening’s moth world visitor seems to be (fact check please) Lygniodes vampyrus. Is it an omen for the working day… https://wp.me/pcKI3-3sO . Previous visitors here, also in…
. What do you expect of a book? A book on culture and critical theory would generally assume a certain readership, but an author-writes for what they can…
Comparison rebooted as participatory research did not quite take off as a turn (not only through lack of time and funds) but thankfully it is still bubbling away…
The one thing I am urgently trying to write is a text on the need for time (I don’t have time to write it, so there’s the problem).…
Message to a friend on publishing ‘requests’/offers: Increasingly colleagues who publish an article in any good journal soon get an unsolicited email from some generic named (unhea…
In 1867, Marx wrote about of Mary Anne Walkley, overworked to death for a society dress – according to the London Chronicle. Now, instead of ruffle of lace,…
The novel is a historical and autobiographically filtered indulgence, yet the making of worlds can sweep you away for a day or a week. Right to choose, needless…
. Against descriptive abstracto-clerical abstentionism. Down with soft-time precario-sectionalcellerationism. Neverforget hard-core solidarnozprojectovognoscism. Exotico-vanguardianist…
Big Day – happy birthday Theodor Adorno.… and the tragedy of architecture that leads to warmongering warbucks… The algebra of need: = the culture industry + tourist rubbern…
I started to code the mixed metaphors in the first page of Critique of Exotica (because I do this for other texts and it helps understand them) but…
Outside Budapest – mood. One day I will make a list of things to do (that isn’t just a contrawise procrastination). Is it weird that no-one reads novels…
… Skillset work needed. Cadre who can scuba dive so as to cut the fibre optic cables providing internet to elite islands; Cadre who can reprogram delivery drones…
. He (I once) swam ashore amidst waves and debris under a typhoon sky. The tops of the waves were blown back against themselves, progress was near impossible,…
. It is now all the more necessary to make anti-war a credo with results. Would you defend the saboteurs of attack aircraft, the sugar in the tank’s…
Écriture – a creature is writhing in meaning, and having writh, moves on. . The performance given in a talk of a class is so much more animated…
There are stranger things in spave than Yuri would believe, one of course is the functionaries that were taking care of Neil Armstrong. I lived for a while…
By the house where I lived as a child and up until my early teens, there was a tea tree forest under a canopy of huge stringy bark…
Lived nearby the ruins as a kid in the 1960s, about 7 old chimney stacks, some of which provided my dad with bricks for his fireplace, while we…
. Years later, the city was curated by someone enamoured of De Chirico and retro TV like Sesame Street – brought to you by the alphabet. Not alphabet…
#circa 1995. From the look of Daniel I knew that he had been away too long. -Maaaate, how are… His cutting off grunt and wave of shaky hand…
. I have memories of my grandfather telling stories in his kitchen in the seventies. I was 14, he tried to explain that if Cornflakes gave you a…