Recent-ish occasionals
recent-ish pieces of blogablabba https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/bangladeshi-cinema-and-tanvir-mokammels-1971-a-review-of-john-hoods-the-bleeding-lotus/ https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2018/01/10…
Tag: trinketization
Klaus-Peter Koepping
Another obituary, this time in the Quarterly by Thomas Reuter. Time does not reconcile. The Quarterly Number 142/September 2017 In Fond Memory of… Klaus Peter Koepping passed away in…
Dark side of the Souvenirs
From ‘Souvenirs in Dark Tourism: Emotions and Symbols’ by J Cave, D Buda – The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies, 2018
Robinson Crusoe (1947 film)
I want to see this 3D Soviet 1947 adventure version discussed by Eisenstein as the way of the future – (non glasses stereoscopic) – Robinson Crusoe (1947 film)…
Miniaturization is trinketization.
This looks great and would have been a good thing to attend, but my diary window – and budget – is far too small: *Small Interventions: Studies in…
Supriya Choudhury
Originally posted on Talking about cinema: Saddened by the news of the demise of Supriya Choudhury this morning… She was one of those rare beauties to have ever…
The Discovery of India – Nehru (Roshan Seth)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PL1EG23oYcaFu6SNAiofd0uco0sD0JeVji¶ms=OAFIAVgB&v=4f6vdW91hLA&mode=NORMAL https://youtu.be/4f6vdW91hLA?list=PL1EG23oYcaFu6SNAiofd0uco0sD0JeVji Filed und…
Reminder to self to read this again, and again (3 times and it might stick). Spivak’s telegraphed coda.
From the essay ‘What’s Left of theory?’ In An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalisation. Spivak 2012: 216-7.Filed under: marxism, Spivak, trinketization
Reading UNESCO’s 2017/8 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report
https://en.unesco.org/gem-report/ Don’t just blame the teacher when the system is at fault, says UNESCO …. The Report calls on governments to: 1. Design accountability for schools and teachers…
Review of Zoogenesis: Thinking Encounter with Animals
http://www.depauw.edu/humani…/issue%2017/calarco-iveson.html Or here (PDF): http://www.depauw.edu/…/issue%2…/pdfs/calarco-iveson-pdf.pdf ‘Life and Relation Beyond Animalization’ by …
Angela Nagle on Mark Fisher.
A worthwhile, slim book. Overly dissected by sectarian and signalling types, but worth the late read. Filed under: trinketization
Enoch Light – Command Records
Originally posted on Ear Conditioning: “Mira ese discos” said Jotti, the proprietor of Aguere Music Shop in La Laguna, as he dropped a few records in front of…
Glimpses from Calcutta’s Old Chinatown: The Oldest Chinatown outside Southeast Asia
Originally posted on Encounters: India has a long history of commercial and cultural contacts with mainland China. Chinese communities had, therefore (mostly temporarily) settled in different ports al…
Semifeudal Cybercolonialism: Technocratic Dreamtime in Malaysia
Thanks Kaloy Cunanan for recovering this from ascii-land. An article on the multi-function polis in Malaysia, from 1999 Hutnyk 1999 Semifeudal Cybercolonialism Technocratic Dreamtime in Malaysia appea…
Kill your darlings 8
The footnotes are getting the chop chop treatment too. It is a sad sad day. A bad bad way to relegate people to the acknowledgements. Is it just…
More snips from the cutting room floor
Despite the geopolitical machinations of superpowers and regional interests, there has been through the crises of imperialism, WW2 and the independence period, a parallel progressive leftist culture r…
Collection of interviews with Indian documentary makers.
With a funky graphic interface (this screenshot does not do it justice – click through to the site) – Anand Patwardhan, Shyam Benegal, Paromita Vohra and more: Filed…
What is Trinketization
Originally posted on trinketization: For an explanation of Trinketization – never fully codified as yet – you might start with the following old posts such as: Note 33: Trinketization…
More on the bees, and Avatar
Really? Heh heh. From the Bee Movie: And from Avatar: Nothing if not populist. Who said kids wouldn’t pour over this speech for years to come? Course they…
Marx in Algiers again
Of haircuts and Rhino coats… This is the worked up text of a talk I gave in Chandernagore in February 2016. The photo is one I’ve failed to trace…
Brand PhD. #gnnnngg
Can’t imagine the mad thinking behind this branding. In several ways a sign of the downward spiral. Or, a niche marketing gambit. What next: administrative razor blades, higher…
New Book by Jay Murphy on Antonin Artaud
This is it – Jay Murphy’s book is out. Use the pavement site because postage is included… Artaud’s Metamorphosis: From Hieroglyphs to Bodies without Organs by Jay Murphy…
De Quincey’s first time. Works 2, p43
A pleasure indirectly paid for, as were his studies at Oxford, with profits from the East India Company opium trade via both his uncle Preston and his benefactor,…
Prison Abolition Syllabus
(This very impressive reading list from the USA compounds). ((Such scholarship needs to be replicated for other places. And start with the prison support stuff)) http://www.aaihs.org/prison-abolition-…