Malinowski is not a god
In a perhaps misguided effort to preserve love of writing, enthuse about independent critical mental facility, to “exercise the metaphoric muscle”, as Mick Taussig would say, and just…
In a perhaps misguided effort to preserve love of writing, enthuse about independent critical mental facility, to “exercise the metaphoric muscle”, as Mick Taussig would say, and just…
Anyone who wants this should DM me for a copy of the journal version. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370237407_Studying_tourism_means_going_to_have_a_look_for_yourself_co-research_vu…
This is from the summer of 2025—attendance at two conferences, one Inter Asia Cultural Studies, the other on Islands at Jeju. A squib commentary, well organised events, notable…
Keith Hart 6th November & Paolo Virno on 7th November. Death is sad, but I imagine them plotting strategies on storming heaven and would love to read their…
“They should know better.” Well, they don’t. What now? I see a lot of rhetoric these days about how certain people in certain political cults–oh, you know the…
I am delighted to share this invaluable resource from my friend and colleague, Dr. April K Henderson. April has written the most thoughtful and practical advice I’ve seen…
Book Launch reading and discussion video (bilingual: English – Tieng Viet – nearly 2 hours).
Recently I have been thinking about how I learnt to transition from fieldwork to writing. Like many graduate students, mid-way through my thesis research I found myself with…
By Pablo Ampuero-Ruiz – I remember very clearly the first lecture of my Master’s degree at Peking University in China. Professor Pan Wei was giving an introductory lecture…
In a new squib on SubstackTM this morning (which I admit I did not read all of because, due at work and there is a techno-paywall requiring download…
I like this sentence, but think it has to be cut because it really has no actual content in the context—though I am a bit grumpy to have…
Xuất bản: “Sân khấu khủng bố – Âm nhạc và chủ nghĩa phân biệt chủng tộc” của John Hutnyk Xuất bản: “Sân khấu khủng bố – Âm nhạc…
on journal articles versus a really good longer piece of work: a few admonitions if you were mad enough to be seeking advice from me (needless to say,…
Comparative adversaria of Gandhi and Marx self clarification through thinking in diaries and lettersDownload
Special offer! Try to download this article here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/04866134241289495 … and then send me a screenshot john.hutnyk[at] gmail.com that shows y…
May Day. On proletarianisation. Consider the extent to which you contribute to the production of surplus value, directly or indirectly (working for wages or not, adding value to…
History ain’t what it was. Here is the great historian of India, Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi, with an amazing caption for an illustration of a water buffalo: “Water-buffalo (p.…
Ego–posturing thoughts (not just mine) assail me, perhaps it is also a demented notion, but what if … that by necessity henceforth everyone had to write all the…
… We used to write letters to mobilise the comrades, by hand, on letterhead, with biros, put em in envelopes, lick stamps and then carry them to the…
From Marx’s London Notebook no b63 Heft LXIV – the last four pages on Francois Bernier on India. As Engels several times says, the handwriting is impossible. ARCH00860.B_63…
Article numbers and rejections are ‘up’. I tried to explain what I see as the current trend in journal-editor-land and wrote this to reassure a colleague that ‘its…
“Have thousand bolts of lightening struck the city? No, not from the sky-from the caverns of hell have come thousands of monsters! Mad, hungry from ages and aeons…
“In ‘The Working Day’, Marx reports that the appointment of Mr. H. S. Tremenheere as Commissioner of Inquiry coincides with the occurrence of “several public meetings and ……