“Asian workers ‘at home’ have been organized, culturally and politically, and have provided a critique of anthropological categorisation themselves by focusing on political and organization…
From Volume 2, number 1 – 1989. Customs Review of Public CultureDownload
Here was a curio – a blogpost filler from September 2005 – a negative review of Critique of Exotica by Narcus Breem in 2001, with my reply at…
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…
There are many dimenesions of Nancy Cunard, born on this day, 10 March, in 1896. She wrote “These were the hours”, about her publishing imprint, through which she…
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I started to code the mixed metaphors in the first page of Critique of Exotica (because I do this for other texts and it helps understand them) but…
This critter got tangled up in the bookshelf after entering the apartment tonight. Huge thing it is, 9 cm with its wings folded. Am about to let it…
Walter Benjamin could be the Johnny Cash of social theory… Vincente Raphael had posted this relic from the Benjamin archive – a note on Marx which Benjamin wrote…
The 1821 Galland version of the Thousand and One Nights. “slightly abridged” with eight full colour drawings by Joan Kiddel-Monroe. 1965 reprint, Dent & Sons. …
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Raoul Coutard was camera-person on nearly all Godard’s major 1960s films, including Á bout de souffle, Bande à Part, Le Mépris, Alphaville, La Chinoise, and Weekend, and then…
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…
starting to see text everywhere, been editing other peoples work much.
I wrote my first book as a critique of charity work in Kolkata, India. I attempted a critique of western ‘charity’ workers helping those they saw as the…
Lecture on Jean-luc Godard’s film “Letter to Jane” – much to discuss at TDTU.
In the business of selling cultures for quids, and other random translations Once upon a long ago, there was a time when I was more rebelliously young, and…
Reading Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins’ 2013 book A Taste for China: English Subjectivity and the Prehistory of Orientalism (Global Asias), Oxford: Oxford University Press, and seeing after Robinson, D…
This was a surprise, at the least: Solo Cello String Ensemble (4-4-4-3-2) c. 25 minutes https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5c04v6g3 “Clifford uses the word to describe ‘a discourse that is…
Full story here: The Rumour of Calcutta
An article just appeared on mela which I had not seen when writing about mela films in Global South Asia on screen, but it looks pretty much on…
Just catching up with critical appreciations. This: jazeel2005
