No Olympics
Because of the money-suck, the corporate sponsorship (riotinto making the medals in London), the fake moralism about drugs, the ‘security’ policing, the …
Do this. [Ban Cars – NYT].
I think something like this needs to be done for most cities. I mean, not just prepare an article like this, but …
Centrifugal Citation Conformity Machine
I was recently in an information briefing (which was very useful) about Web of Science and citations/searches. Here are some thoughts on …
→Trinketization: answers to all questions about trinkets, and Capital.
Jadavpur University and the pecuniary investment jealousy rag (need some infrastructure surely).
I don’t have cause to say so often enough, but I consider Jadavpur a second alma mater for me (just as second …
Mother of Pearl
Moving from detective fiction in Thailand to commercial reproduction makes sense when its Angela Savage. This is my next non-work read: Some …
cut from the draft of the pecuniary animus of the university…
We might consider the university as that space where the practice of education for life, with all its contemporary contextualisations, difficulties and …
Innovations… Conference 4-5 October 2019, TDTU, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities 4th and 5th of October 2019. Ho Chi Minh City, Socialist republic of Vietnam Welcome to the …
Indexing
The requirement imposed upon untenured ‘early career’ scholars to target only alleged “quality” publications is academic narrowcasting. Zines fall between the cracks …
More Marx on Slavery
This fascinating article by Marx was in The People’s Paper, March 1953, and earlier in the NYDT, and about a third of it was …
The Happiness Scam
The happiness industry, positive psychology and dead-end jobs. How happiness became a scam to hide social inequality and a global economy on …
Fleeting friendships and community for Carnival
The institutionalisation of atomistic individualism over the need and necessity of social groups and relations – seen through Carnival It has become …