Pantomime Terror and Global South Asia on Screen
Cheap paperback stocking stuffers… – though I wonder if 1 left in stock contradicts that whole value-scarcity thing. Pretty sure there is …
5 min interview
I get the occasional cold call from secondary school students and always try to respond with some things that are expected and …
Japan – Vietnam archives
Another set of items for the exotica files (link below), is a set of documents held in the national Archives of Japan …
Vortrag „(Re)Creating archives“
What is an archive? How do research and artistic practices produce archives? What are the processes, systems, procedures and collective efforts involved …
Lost in the supermarket
https://norient.com/video/shopping-is-civil-war https://norient.com/video/shopping-is-civil-war
Colonial Hyperbole, with gaps
There are some crimes that are longer-term than others… As I am finding from spending part of the morning exploring archival images, …
Conference Proceedings ISSH2019
Conference Proceedings ISSH2019 Innovations in the Humanities and Social Sciences conference October 2019 Ton Duc Thang University – Conference Proceedings in full. …
MyKnet.org: Traces of digital decoloniality in an indigenous web-based environment
This blog post is a shorter version of a paper presented at the Engaging with Web Archives (EWA20) conference in September 2020 …
Watch “Serampore & Denmark – A Living History by the Ganges” on YouTube
The bit where haunted buildings are mentioned strangely has the sound drop out, but there are some great things to explore still… …
Recent stuffs:
The Corporate Imaginary, In Thesis Eleven August 13, 2020 Co research in Vietnam for the anthropology classroom with Do Thi Xuan Huong, …
Some recent texts on academia.edu
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Double Injustice: Media Racism
Back in 2003 Imogen Bunting, whose birthday it would have been today, wrote this on the film INJUSTICE by Tariq and Ken. …
Infrastructure of the Archive / Archiving Infrastructure #Roadsides
Infrastructure is, in common understanding, a very material thing. We think of it as something made of iron and concrete. Even when …
Centrifugal Citation Conformity Machine
I was recently in an information briefing (which was very useful) about Web of Science and citations/searches. Here are some thoughts on …
→Trinketization: answers to all questions about trinkets, and Capital.
Safdar Hashmi
So, in 1988 I was evading fieldwork or whatever it was – frankly, I had abandoned the very idea – and was …
→Trinketization: answers to all questions about trinkets, and Capital.
What did you do in the war Pop?
Your article, What did you do in the war? Revisiting the WW2 memoirs of Stoker Thomas Mouat Tate, published in History and …
downloads
WordPress started counting text downloads of articles in July this year. Interesting stat. So the books get quite a few 56 for …
Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities #ISSH2019
An International Conference at Ton Duc Thang University October 4-5, 2019 Innovations are the key. In method and analysis, in the ways …
Presentation: MyKnet.org: The cultural history & social life of an indigenous web-based environment
Budka, P. (2019). MyKnet.org: The cultural history and social life of an indigenous web-based environment. Paper at “The Web That Was: Archives, …
The Nature of the Copy
From the dead center of an all-white eye, a lone sapling rose two feet tall. Cyclical ridges and valleys, etched in bioplastic …
Boy Scout
“‘There is no document of civilization that is not simultaneously a document of barbarism‘” (Walter Benjamin Illuminations) William Burroughs’ annotated …
Multitude redux Empire: wrong way, don’t go back, we should leave too.
People got wishful thinking a lot, and I am always for breaking the borders, but as this can be read from afar, …
Brazil’s National Museum Fire
On September 2, a hot Sunday in Central Brazil, I saw the incredible images of an enormous fire rapidly consuming the National …