John Hutnyk

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ISSH2026

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Jagannath

The Portuguese colonial incursion in Orissa began around 1514, and the link with Malaka port was a key trading link. Centuries later, they had the temerity to put the Jagannath shrine on the back of their one rupee and 2 1/2 rupee notes, from the 1920s. The images below are from: Tripati, Sila. 2003. Depiction Of Jagannath Temple of Puri on The Portuguese Paper Currency Studies in History and…

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Trần Đức Thảo as Robinsonade

I don’t think Robinson had any like the same sort of commitment to the revolution… This, then, is the standard story, but there is much more to it, especially on the importance of theory and practice (whereas Robinson seems mostly to talk to parrots).

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David Malouf RIP

“Johnno” (1975) was an important first book. I will reread it a third (or fourth time) because it is two decades since the last time, and it was important to remember it then, and I remember that its important now even if the only bit I truly remember is where he is being told by his father that each cell in your body is renewed within each seven years. So eventually you are new. Of course I…

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Cringe

On “Cringe” and philosophy. You might know that some people consider Martin  Heidegger the greatest philosopher (not me, I prefer Tran Duc Thao, and Marx) but Heidegger is nevertheless great on technology. And so sometimes I will read his other works, or listen to people talk about them. Imagine my surprise when this discussion of Heidegger’s early work on Being (and time, etc). ended up a…

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Imogen

Twenty years is incomprehensible. Double Injustice: Media Racism

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 Ho Chi Minh by Vu Cao Dam, 1946

 Portrait of President Ho Chi Minh by Vu Cao Dam 1946 – Original in plaster or terracotta, cast in Bronze by his daughter.

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Mumia Abu–Jamal on Fanon - 30 mins

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2008 on Heidegger and Technology - also ADF, river obsessions, Battle of Algiers, meditative thinking.

2008. “Martin Heidegger Goes to the Movies.” In, Cultural Politics in a Global Age (112–119). Oxford: One World. Martin Heidegger Goes to the MoviesDownload

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Bataille's Wars: Surrealism, Marxism, Fascism. 2003.

HUTNYK_batailleDownload

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Alexander Kluge Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike - Marx/Eisenstein/Das Kapital [News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital]

I do not have all of it – there should be 9 hours of love (what I do have seems to be in the sequence below, in four parts – with Eng subs, but with a large section, that I think is the start of part 2, which includes an interview with Soterdijk [possibly this] that refuses to be loaded to WordPress – I have inserted the link below as well, or you can skip PS. Those who are better informed or who…

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Some meeting notes are more notable than others

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Public Culture

From Volume 2, number 1 – 1989. Customs Review of Public CultureDownload

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We have never been Modern Lodge

The Modern has seen better days. Astronomical sums would buy it. Raju is caretaking, but, well, its seen better days. . This was the location of almost three years of ‘fieldwork’ (faffing about, mostly reading political pamphlets from the M-Ls in my ‘tent’) for the research that became “The Rumour of Calcutta book” (1996, rereleased 2023). It was 8 rupees a night back then, 1987-91, and did not…

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Timepass

Timepass: having sat four days under the Bodhi tree in Bodhgaya and watched in procession: – an ant struggling to go the wrong way as hundreds of devotees perambulate around the tree/shrine – it was eventually crushed flat– literally hundreds, no thousands of feet passed as I watched – people’s feet are so varied in India, rings on toes, twisted toenails, variety of socks (its winter)– a red…

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Marston Mats iaroma

See also: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649373.2024.2293553 Elemental structures of memory: Marston Mats in Vietnam and beyond – preprint Bardot with Marston Mats Marston Mats Tank Mats 1945 Mats Matty Mats More marston mats

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Contested Glories of Selective Renovation in West Bengal

This article, in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, is about heritage restoration according to old colonial protocols and myopias. Contesting entrepreneur-developers facing funder imperatives, the article works through meanings, assumptions and differences of interest and purpose for variously invested groups (remember this time, that time, this heritage, that heritage). The article…

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