F. Schlegel’s Philosophy of History
1852 From the untroduction to The Literary Life of FvS Three brothers:
Tag: East India Company
Close the bases! Shipwrecks as “providence!”: electoral media shitshows about ports and expropriators.
. For example—close the CIA Pine Gap secret spy base in Central Australia, recently expanded according to Denis Doherty in 2024: https://www.anti-bases.org/pine-gap-threatens-gaza-china-and-au…
Richard Francis Burton
Note to self to transpose my ppt slides on Richard Burton into a text since he is problematic enough to take a place alongside The Victorians (Tylor, Spencer,…
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…
Robinson Crusoe: After the Island
To cite this article: John Hutnyk (2023): Robinson Crusoe: After the island, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2023.2244204 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449…
Special Issue: Robinson Crusoe
Free to download in 2023. Click the TOC below and download each as a PDF or EPUB from T&R. #robinson #crusoe #Journal of Postcolonial Writing
Robinson so far…
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Robinson Crusoe: After the Island
The third in a series of Robinsonades… Email me to get the pdf – and those for the two earlier iterations of my work on Defoe: here and…
Robinson Crusoe; After the Island
New ink…
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…
Pirate Reboot – Occupy Madagascar
Graeber, David. 2023. Pirate Enlightenment, Or the real Libertalia. London: Allen Lane. In this entertaining book, the world of early eighteenth century Madagascar piracy, and the women they…
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…
Comparative Urbanism and who gets [funded to] compare
In the current conjuncture, with the increasingly complete capture of university research by corporate interests, only the alternative incorporation of research teams that start outside the universit…
Coconuts
Sir Fancis Drake – whose lucre profits helped Queen Elizabeth get out of debt and invest in the Levant and then the East India Company, from which in…
Opium and Political Economy in Bengal
On why I think Marx’s writing style is misrepresented by the all-too-dour and serious commentators on Capital – you know, the famous ones published by big presses or…
Two Robinsons, one more to come…
Robinsonades: pertaining to allegories from the East India Company in Ceylon and other islands, from Marxism to Post-structuralism, and in which, dear reader, a 300-year-old adventure book may…
Robinson on Con Dao
First 50 to click the url here get a free pdf – https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0967828X.2021.1994353#.YYVKsbiYIYQ.linkedin
Talk at Cooch Behar
GandhiMarx Cooch Behar pdf slides Youtube link https://youtu.be/eGl7CZvEC6c
Rhino
Love these two: Jan Griffier after Francis Barlow, ‘A true representation of the Rhinocerus and Elephant lately brought from the East-Indies to London, drawn after the life, and…
Tipu’s Tiger should be Tipu’s – ship it back to the Bagh.
We should ask V&A head honcho Tristram Hunt if he plans to hand any of the booty back. The famous sepoy being eaten by a tiger should…
The Fantasist of Calcutta has a plaque
Atrocities and alibi’s for dirty colonial deeds of the ‘robber baron’ Clive and his mates. Here is a plaque for John Zephania Holwell, who wrote his dramatically claustrophobic…
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, I reckon yes, but the prognosis…
The museum of vernacular regeneration
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