Editing – discarding – trite gems (f)or the gnawin mice
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…
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 ……
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 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…
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).…
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…
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…
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 StructureDownload
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…
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…
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…