History of the buffalo – Kosambi relaxing
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.…
Tag: writing
writery all the time
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…
Old enough to remember when…
… 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…
Marx’s notes on Bernier
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…
Trouble at the (academic paper) mill
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…
there be monsters
“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…
Working day – time sucks, colour coded stomach-turning adulterations of food…
“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 ……
Drawing with Lynda Barry’s “Syllabus” in a creative ethnographic practices class
A few years ago, my friend Caroline Bennett gave me Lynda Barry’s 2014 book Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor and this term I decided to use some…
what do you think of writing books?
. What do you expect of a book? A book on culture and critical theory would generally assume a certain readership, but an author-writes for what they can…
Saving Time – research theme
The one thing I am urgently trying to write is a text on the need for time (I don’t have time to write it, so there’s the problem).…
Mercenary fishing for academic vanity
Message to a friend on publishing ‘requests’/offers: Increasingly colleagues who publish an article in any good journal soon get an unsolicited email from some generic named (unhea…
Mixed Metaphors in a text
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…
Handwringing about Heidi.
Écriture – a creature is writhing in meaning, and having writh, moves on. . The performance given in a talk of a class is so much more animated…
The Revolutionary Structure of Sound – 1995 – in Versus magazine
The Revolutionary StructureDownload
Freud and Leonardo FASS Magazine 1986
Deep in the vault, I was surprised to find my first ever published essay starts with Derridaddy (basically a review essay – also with errors from the days…
Metaphors from 1988.
I’ll never claim to be a poet, but my first publications were angry letters to the local papers, and meandering poems about building, trees and insects. It is…
Revisiting a (child) hood
By Robert Cornelis – It’s one of the first warm days in May, and I am slightly thrown off by how lush and green my birthplace appears. In…
Sumanta Banerjee
Seagull Books congratulates Sumanta Banerjee on being honoured with the Pandit Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar Gold Plaque by the Asiatic Society. A distinguished cultural historian and journalist, Suman…
Is there a future for Standplaats Wereld?
The editors – This year it is exactly fifteen years ago that Standplaats Wereld came into being and the first blog was posted. Setting up a departmental blog…
Further reflections on writing ethnographic fieldnotes
The most popular post on my blog describes the fieldnote template I developed during the early stages of my PhD research with community-based NGOs running educational and economic…
The Discovery of India
“we are too much under the bondage of slogans” Nehru 1947: 545)
Re-vaulting
Everybodyism – see footnote 1. New Poetics/from the Re-vaults of almost forgotten heroes Nobody finishes everything – here are some that won’t get done soon… I gue…
Robinson Crusoe: After the Island
To cite this article: John Hutnyk (2023): Robinson Crusoe: After the island, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2023.2244204 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449…