Built on silt, but gold.
Calcutta Research Group Talk JH and questions for the Making and Unmaking of Cities series of CRG, done March 29 2025 (but the intro promised Samata Biswas but…
Calcutta Research Group Talk JH and questions for the Making and Unmaking of Cities series of CRG, done March 29 2025 (but the intro promised Samata Biswas but…
Cyber feudalism, techno corvée, or semi feudal cyber colonialism. Why feudal now? because the resistance levels are in an ebb the oppressive apparatus access tried and true modalities…
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…
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…
At least Black Sabbath got to sell their own souls, and it was for rock and roll. We never even got that chance. A corporation I had never…
Article numbers and rejections are ‘up’. I tried to explain what I see as the current trend in journal-editor-land and wrote this to reassure a colleague that ‘its…
By Own screenshot, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26632754 I watch people on the Seoul subway playing 쿠키런 (Cookie Run) while we barrel towards Chongno. It’s the successful coloniz…
In the spirit of “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas” (1993) and “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” (Book by Dr. Seuss, 1957 and TV Special 1966)… I call…
The Eastern edges of the European Union stand as landscapes of transformation and socioeconomic and cultural flux, situated between shifting empires and layered histories. Their in-betweenness mirrors…
Depletion by Shirin Rai considers the hidden costs of care work, exposing its unequal gendered and racialised distribution across society. Presenting depletion as an innovative way to conceptualise…
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World brings together a selection of writings spanning two decades by the renowned anthropologist and anarchist David Graeber. According to Danny Dorling’s revie…
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Since 2021, along with the British and Australian governments, the Canadian government has relaxed immigration policy for Hong Kong immigrants. This policy offers an unconventional path with lowered…
Thinking of returning to this problem of time – how everything has got more urgent, but nothing is moving at all – hyper-stagnation. From the reviews of Bad…
This is an essay (or “essay”) mainly authored by Copilot, the LLM-based AI tool provisioned to me by Indiana University. Spelling and typographic errors made by JBJ have…
This is an essay (or “essay”) mainly authored by Copilot, the LLM-based AI tool provisioned to me by Indiana University. Spelling and typographic errors made by JBJ have…
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,…
In A Vital Frontier, Andrea Muehlebach considers how the neoliberal financialisation of water as a public utility has sparked citizen-led resistance across Europe. Sharing ethnographic insights into a…
#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…
Good teh tarik too.
In Long Live Queer Nightlife, Amin Ghaziani charts the transformation of LGBTQ+ nightlife in recent decades amid venue closures and gentrification, focusing on London. Through a blend of personal anec…
I am consumed by a difficult realization I’ve come to lately. The care my children need to be as protected as possible under the conditions of capitalism outstrips…
Annual Billionaire Challenge / Local council administered: Every year all billionaires have a two-week window to file public exemptions before they are taxed half a billion for every…
by Shormila Akter Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh examines the lives of female garments workers, shaped by “a state that colluded with…