An elephant at Goldsmiths!

An elephant at goldsmiths!

Goldsmiths Wildlife

An elephant at goldsmiths!

POLICE CUSTODY DEATH FAMILIES DEMAND END OF SHOOT TO KILL POLICY

INJUSTICE If you are in London, this is important. A film made by friends with work from Goldsmiths students and comrades… Shoot to Kill does not make the tubes safer. Police who kill must be prosecuted. No Deaths inCustody… ———- Forwarded message ———- Press Release: 1/9/05 No Embargo POLICE CUSTODY DEATH FAMILIES DEMAND END OF [...]

Iconography

Symbolic not trinket. From: John Hutnyk – Academic Director, Centre for Cultural Studies Work: http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cultural-studies/staff/j-hutnyk.php Blog: http://hutnyk.blogspot.com/ Links: http://tawdrysouvenirs.blogspot.com/ Events: http://whats-on-occasionally.blogspot.com/

Critique of Exotica

Critique of Exotica: Music, Politics and the Culture Industry London: Pluto Press, 2000 In this innovative book, John Hutnyk questions the meaning of cultural hybridity. Using the growing popularity of Asian culture in the West as a case study, he looks at just who benefits from this intermingling of culture. /What does it mean when [...]

THE RUMOUR OF CALCUTTA

THE RUMOUR OF CALCUTTA: TOURISM, CHARITY, AND THE POVERTY OF REPRESENTATION John Hutnyk 1996 Zed books, London. An original study in the politics of representation, this book explores the discursive construction of a ‘city of intensities’. The author analyses representations of Calcutta in a wide variety of discourses: in the gossip and travellor-lore of backpackers [...]

Languid, tropical, monsoonal time?

Languid, tropical, monsoonal time?: net-activism and hype in the context of South East Asian politics. [From The Next Five Minutes3 Workbook…] We have to agree that the relentless extension of electronic media across the webs of our lives is there to be used, enjoyed, captured, redeployed. But sometimes the speed-hype that is in fact a [...]

Culture

This is the abstract and first few paragraphs of my entry in the New Encyclopedia Project first issue (out in TCS journal in April 2006): The entry is called Culture !! Abstract: Culture is considered as a key term in Anthropology, now in critical mode, and to be worked through powerful tropes that lead to [...]

pits

This old poster is on a notice board outside the old council houses across the road from my flat – its survived 20 years or so I guess – Support the Miners/No Pit Closures. And support the Heathrow Strikers today!

pits

This old poster is on a notice board outside the old council houses across the road from my flat – its survived 20 years or so I guess – Support the Miners/No Pit Closures. And support the Heathrow Strikers today!

Travel Worlds

Travel Worlds:Journeys in Contemporary Cultural Politics Edited by Raminder Kaur and John Hutnyk Zed books, London 1999. Pb ISBN 1 85649 562 0 Price UK£13.95/US$22.50 (see below for ordering details) (cover photo Karoki Lewis) Everyone’s got a traveller’s tale, but TRAVEL WORLDS tells them with a sting: African-American musicians head East for Kung-Fu kicks while [...]

Dis-Orienting Rhythms:

Dis-Orienting Rhythms: the Politics of the New Asian Dance Music. eds Sanjay Sharma, John Hutnyk and Ashwani Sharma, 1996 Zed books. The image on the cover is from a Fun^Da^Mental album, Sieze the Time. Blurring the boundaries between academic and cultural production, this book produces a new understanding of the world significance of South Asian [...]

Show Neon Fashion

From the most recent edition of the journal Left Curve (No 29) Show Neon Fashions Accompanying Exhibition/Catalogue Essay for: JOOYOUNG LEE (with CART The airport) Dec 2003 to Jan 2004. Art Space Hue, www.artspacehue.com (Seoul) Fashion! Turn to the left Fashion! Turn to the right Oooh, fashion! We are the goon squad and we’re coming [...]

BLIAR

This was written late 2003 and published in the Bengali paper Anand Patrika Bazaar mid 2004. “BLIAR” The mood in London when it comes to Brother Number One, Tony Blair, is difficult to gauge. His image has been with us for so long – it is ten years since his Cheshire Cat smile took over [...]

ssean john james

sean john James

Makers Mark

Hi. This is a test. The next one is a pic of Sean James and I (me in the middle, makers mark bourbon in hand – they can send me a crate of the stuff for this free product placement). Ha Ha. John This is also the page where I’ve  dumped my old drafts of [...]