Troublemakers well worth the catch up.
It was really great to catch up with a lot of people In Hsinchu last week, especially, after many years, the ever eloquent Ned Rossiter, and Brett Neilson,…
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Indigenous Peoples’ Un-Freedoms
“Indigenous Peoples’ Un-Freedoms and Our Academic Freedom A Call for Solidarity” Not usually a petition signer, but in this case there is informative text and urgent reasons…. …
Spivak doing Spivak things
Once the preambles are done, there is hardly a sentence that could not be a credo, a warning, and an injunction to slow down and try to learn…
Ramon Karmen 1955 Vietnam
Magnificent colour film of Ho Chi Minh, Vo Nguyen Giap, and others, including the heroic fighters of Vietnam before, leading to, and after the victory at Dien Bien…
Two (Satyajit Ray 1963) and Amar Lenin (Ritwik Ghatak 1970) [for ease of access]
Article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649373.2023.2209434 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649373.2023.2209434 and This is it.
Subcontinental Media
I am very happy to have got this out, thanks to all at and in the journal: Please email me to get a pdf if you have not…
Anti Fascist Bataille – Robyn Marasco
This was a very welcome intervention (two years back, but I just found it now). https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/67465334/Bataille_s_Anti_fascism-libre.pdf?1622374503=&response-con…
Raoul Coutard
Raoul Coutard was camera-person on nearly all Godard’s major 1960s films, including Á bout de souffle, Bande à Part, Le Mépris, Alphaville, La Chinoise, and Weekend, and then…
History and Obstinacy. Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt.
“In a letter to Albert Einstein in 1939, Sigmund Freud wrote that no moral code can help prevent war. (Often, such codes themselves bring about wars.) Those of…
The Ghosts of Songs: The Film Art of the Black Audio Film Collective 1982-1998
If you have not had a chance to get with this big (coffee table) book – even if sometimes the aesthetic overrides the political – there is no…
Annabel’s amazing school zine project on Ho Chi Minh
done in class 2, in 2022, Nottingham. anabels-2023-zine-project-on-hcmDownload
10 Kwacha (Zambia)
and other coins, mostly no longer worth the money they are printed on.
oh Yoko
Yoko Ono handed this artwork to me on arrival at her show somewhere in shoreditch about 2000. Christies auction house offers considered… dm me with your bids. This…
GO HAVE A LOOK FOR YOURSELF
THERE IS ALSO AN ARTICLE VERSION: Congratulations, we’re delighted to let you know that your article is now on Taylor & Francis Online. Studying tourism means going to have a…
that sign
the hinge moment in the text of capital, before whuch the ersheinungsform of commodities gives way to the secret of value extraction, also erschent als, of course, yet…
The Rumour of Calcutta update
27 22 years ago my first book was typeset and laid out in the days before electronics – well, an electric typesetting machine was plugged into a wall,…
Marx and South Asia
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies vol 1 2023…
đường dây Côn Đảo
Great! Just great. Director: Lam Son (AKA Bùi Sơn Duân, 1932-2001). Writers: Nguyen Huy Khanh and Vu Hanh, starring Thuy Lien as Tuyet Mai, Ha Van Buu as…
Foreigners and (merely trifling … criminal) ideology in poetry: Note for a future appreciation of Aragon that will likely never appear…
From Louis Aragon’s epic History of the USSR 1962 (1964) “Although it may have been necessary to remind creative artists and writers of the national context of art…
Adorno on youth and discipline – whats not to love here
“There is absolutely no question that productive thinking today can take the form only of one that works through breaks and fractures, whereas any thinking which is simply…
Stepan Georgevich Shaumian – not to be forgotten.
Besides the usual wiki stuff, I would welcome any recommendations on Shaumian. Or Shaumyan as Louis Aragon spells his name in The History of the USSR (1962) –…
Notes on Beuret.
An annotation of someone’s article abstract is probably a bit unfair. I’ve managed some awful ones myself. Sigh. Here I was, stuck in a long meeting, listening to…
Godard’s “British Sounds” link updated
Godard “British Sounds” From 2009: You can find Jean-Luc Godard’s “British Sounds” in all its glory now. It is worth watching all the way through – from the…