Circumlocution advice.
Learning peace and acceptance in the toleration-negotiation-circulation saga. I bought a book online from an organisation in the Czech Republic and it arrived at my house a week…
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Marston Mats Tank Mats 1945 Mats Matty Mats
Only adding this to the archive – tanks are not needed just now in Indonesia. It is a Matilda Tank of the 2/9th Australian Armoured Regiment in Tarakan…
Speculations on the madness
Lets not forget the redundancies built into the news cycle. #1 What was the Trump—Musk alliance if not the merger of two distorted character masks representing shills for…
Leaving out the critical clinch in Žižek..
In a new squib on SubstackTM this morning (which I admit I did not read all of because, due at work and there is a techno-paywall requiring download…
Xuất bản: “Sân khấu khủng bố – Âm nhạc và chủ nghĩa phân biệt chủng tộc” của John Hutnyk
Xuất bản: “Sân khấu khủng bố – Âm nhạc và chủ nghĩa phân biệt chủng tộc” của John Hutnyk Xuất bản: “Sân khấu khủng bố – Âm nhạc…
Proletarianisation
May Day. On proletarianisation. Consider the extent to which you contribute to the production of surplus value, directly or indirectly (working for wages or not, adding value to…
Bad Marxism
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…
Working day – time sucks, colour coded stomach-turning adulterations of food…
“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 ……
Max Ernst (1891-1976)- Die ganze Stadt // The Entire City
Max Ernst (1891-1976)- Die ganze Stadt // aka Die versteinerte Stadt // The Entire City – Paintings from circa 1934-37. Is this Max anticipating Marston mats? The earliest…
Annual Billionaire Challenge
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…
Rebooting Tourism in Vietnam : The Ho Tram Strip
Asian Perspective, vol. 48, no. 1 2024 https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/919884 I have, for personal use only, a pdf copy of this article, which appears in Asian Perspective, vol. 48, no….
Henrietta Clive
A friend is in India and I am vicariously planning tours that would take more time than anyone has… I recently – well 3 years ago – read…
Elemental structures of memory: Marston Mats in Vietnam and beyond – preprint
This is a postprint of the article – The Version of Record of this manuscript has been published and is available in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 2024, at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/1…
Book Fetish
A detail from Yasmine Seale’s annotation of pages of Edward Lane’s 1838 translation of 1001 Nights – Sleepless 2022, Mirage 2022, Of the Sea 2022 – seen in…
The Rumour of Calcutta at Foreign Publishers Agency on Jawaharlal Nehru Road. In the window! – after 27 years.
From a time before the city had a five word name (K.F.K.A.C), photogenic proof of the rupee version of Rumour in the window, re-released after 27 years…
If we had time to study, we might study this…
I was asked yesterday how I might explain the attraction of current right wing ideas and autocracy…: >> How do you explain the attraction of current right wing…
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…
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,…
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…
Rosa on opium
Rosa Luxemburg The Accumulation of Capital, ch 18 “Consequently, a stricter law was passed [by the Chinese] in 1833 which made every opium smoker liable to a hundred…
Letter to Jane
Lecture on Jean-luc Godard’s film “Letter to Jane” – much to discuss at TDTU.
Global shipping
sometimes these maps are so pro-capital its embarrassing. This one is of course, but its also informative. Here are the paths of need and greed, crime and time…
Perception test. Who can…?
I approached the bookseller to ask for 50% discount on this book because of its major flaw. Can you see it? Would you pay full price for this,…