Утро Индии Morning in India – 1956 film by Roman Karmen
Even greater than landing on the moon was throwing off the English yoke – reel two of this amazing film by Roman Karmen (4 parts from https://www.net-film.ru/) has…
Even greater than landing on the moon was throwing off the English yoke – reel two of this amazing film by Roman Karmen (4 parts from https://www.net-film.ru/) has…
Magnificent colour film of Ho Chi Minh, Vo Nguyen Giap, and others, including the heroic fighters of Vietnam before, leading to, and after the victory at Dien Bien…
Article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649373.2023.2209434 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649373.2023.2209434 and This is it.
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…
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…
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,…
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies vol 1 2023…
From Louis Aragon’s epic History of the USSR 1962 (1964) “Although it may have been necessary to remind creative artists and writers of the national context of art…
Besides the usual wiki stuff, I would welcome any recommendations on Shaumian. Or Shaumyan as Louis Aragon spells his name in The History of the USSR (1962) –…
Godard “British Sounds” From 2009: You can find Jean-Luc Godard’s “British Sounds” in all its glory now. It is worth watching all the way through – from the…
Avatar 2 seems like its channeling every Hollywood Vietnam War fantasy ever – what is up with that? Western cowboy military in the delta and includes an apocalypse…
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…
A comment in David Biggs’s, generally very engaging, 2010 book Quagmire. One part early on seemed to clang like a cheap scooter hitting the railings of an old…
Trying to read in the library but looking out the window at the reminder that this is no ordinary library experience. A few parts from a recent text:…
Defoe is as good at mocking Robinson as anyone, despite swallowing a thesaurus. In volume three: ”poor, wild, wicked Robinson” (316) “a churl, a morose, sour disposition, a…
This is an interesting read: on-eleanore-marxDownload
My favourite Warramiri (?) story from Arnhem Land is of a maths teacher out on a river one time teaching kids to measure distances – how far to…
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…
“Page no.297: ‘Een Jonk van Palimban.’ (Junk from Palimban on present day Sumatra, Indonesia). A scene that took place near Pulo Condore / Con Son Island an Island…
Great discussion of iron smelting for coins and guns by Amitabha Ghosh in Aniruddha Ray (ed) “Tipu Sultan and his Age” . Asiatic Society 2002, Park Street. Much…
The report on this 1965 anti-war protest is marginally better than most current press release churnalism, of course it favours the Police and the future PM McMahon (who…
Fighting the lurgie seemed the right time to read Tim Page’s book on train trips in Vietnam 20 years after his war photo stint – the Dennis Hopper…
This is out – much awaited and of importance: https://www.lit-verlag.de/isbn/978-3-643-91518-4