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“Johnno” (1975) was an important first book. I will reread it a third (or fourth time) because it is two decades since the last time, and it was…
“Johnno” (1975) was an important first book. I will reread it a third (or fourth time) because it is two decades since the last time, and it was…
Let me first say that I have been waiting for Don Kalb’s new book for a long time! Kalb has been a leading theorist of the growth of…
On “Cringe” and philosophy. You might know that some people consider Martin Heidegger the greatest philosopher (not me, I prefer Tran Duc Thao, and Marx) but Heidegger is nevertheless…
Caption: A sprawling retrospective on Moriyama, a giant of Japanese street photography, is on view at the Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art, as part of annual international…
An aerial view of the Strait of Gibraltar shows something that resembles order. Container ships move in two disciplined lanes, their wakes parallel lines across the surface. Between…
Twenty years is incomprehensible. Recycling this now extraordinarily old post below (its not her birthday today, but 20 years since we lost Imogen Bunting). Double Injustice: Media Ra…
In a previous post I mentioned the visit to Yemen in 1891 by an Italian traveler after a journey that took him through Tunis and Egypt. His name…
Lukas Matsson’s Norwegian Company Retreat on HBO’s Succession After a recent work trip to Norway, I happened to rewatch episodes of HBO’s classic show Succession, and was surprised…
Don Kalb first sent me Value and Worthlessness: The Rise of the Populist Right and Other Disruptions in the Anthropology of Capitalism in manuscript form. I had read…
On Stratified Topologies of Urban Passing 1 April 2024, London. Written while shifting from one transient stay to another, sixteen […] The post Everywhere is a Border, Everywhere…
Most scholars who have read about the many travelers to Yemen in the past are well aware of the Italian Renzo Manzoni, whose 1884 El Yemen records his…
Having the opportunity to say a few words about the work of an esteemed colleague and an intellectual reference like Don Kalb is a rare privilege. Value and…
Robert Dorschel‘s The Social Codes of Tech Workers is a sociological study of class identity among mid-level digital labourers. Drawing on interviews with American and German data scientists and…
As far-right politics reshape European democracies, Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has taken a strikingly different path – doubling down on “NO” to the wars in Gaza…
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Surrogacy is a form of assisted reproduction in which the gestational labor of birthing a child is carried out by someone other than the intending parent/s. Surrogacy in…
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/MasquelierIn When we first decided to edit a book, following the success of the workshop on “Waiting” held at Tulane University in 2018, we had in mind a…
Kelly Alexander. Truffles and Trash: Recirculating Food in a Social Welfare State. The University of North Carolina Press. 2024. ISBN: 9781469678597 Nafsika Papacharalampous (SOAS Food Studies…
A fable, dedicated to Mark Twain and all who really understand what it means to suffer Abraham was sitting just inside his tent flap near the oaks of…
This text is not about the huffing and puffing you would expect. Although Don Kalb is Dutch, his new book, Value and Worthlessness: The Rise of the Populist…
In Value and Worthlessness, Kalb has set out to do something that nobody has attempted to do since the 1970s. He develops a programmatic line of Marxist research…
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