Version Two Bio: … Some functional self aggrandizement tasks have necessarily occupied my morning as I’ve been filling out a job application. So I also thought I should use the opportunity to update the long out of date blurb on my college webpage. Here below is my latest institutionalized reduced dessicated alienated and foreshortened “self” – forgive the gauche brutal clunk clunk prose of it all. I wish I could do it in the tone of Lily Allen – la la la la (trashed by Posh and Becks so she must be ok). The stuff you have to write when filling in faculty search criteria makes me cringe, but I wonder if anyone ever would take seriously a job application that started with the words: “I only want to join your organisation to maim it” [Comrade Boucher's campaign pledge when running for election to the Academic body that used to oversee administrative evil at Melbourne University] or ‘We will fuck with your heads’ [the Director of Finance as spokesperson for a small workshop group assigned the task of translating Goldies' slogan/value 'radical thinking' into something with more edge - I do believe he had to be prompted to speak out, but certainly got mass approval]. Anyway, in this below, I edited out most of the dodgy stuff I used to say, and some of the stuff I used to do – no mention of the courts or The Party(ing) – now it seems positively tame. Ah well. Web control will approve I hope, search machines will cathect, webhost police will not flag it as objectionable content.
Makers Mark
August 25, 2005Hi. 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
Trinketization – used to be “The John Hutnyk Experiment”, was failing/flailing about, but with a rebranded strapline: the somewhat dated line “Learn To Like It” that very attentive readers might have seen in some old late 1980s fax art concoctions made mostly with Chris.
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First please enjoy a look at this pic of early xmas morning at the Victoria Memorial in the Maidan circa 1991. Our very own coronation of her Victorian-ness. A passerby said ‘it is a very fine gesture you have made’. Red Salute to Hannah.
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Version One Bio: Professor of Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College. I’ve published three single authored books and several edited collections on topics such as music and politics, representation and travel, marxism and hybridity. The Rumour of Calcutta (Zed 1996) was widely reviewed, as was Critique of Exotica (Pluto 2000). More recently, in 2004 Bad Marxism came out (Pluto 2004). A book co-written with Virinder Kalra and Raminder Kaur entitled Diaspora and Hybridity came out with Sage. Celebrating Transgression co-edited with Ursula Rao came out in 2006 with Berghahn.
My Interests sort of fall into three thematic categories: 1. Technology, understood through the philosopher Heidegger’s essay ‘The essence of technology’ and his critical encounter with Marx in the ‘Letter on Humanism’; 2. Representation, in film, television, art and music – extensively in relation to a critique of cultural ‘ownership’ and the politics of music/ethnicity; 3. Communism – with reference to Asian communism, alternate public spheres, and the politics envisioned in a reconfigured future that does not take Das Kapital as a blueprint for the good life, but as a guide for the critical questioning of everything.
Lily: do what with your head?
Version Two Bio: … Some functional self aggrandizement tasks have necessarily occupied my morning as I’ve been filling out a job application. So I also thought I should use the opportunity to update the long out of date blurb on my college webpage. Here below is my latest institutionalized reduced dessicated alienated and foreshortened “self” – forgive the gauche brutal clunk clunk prose of it all. I wish I could do it in the tone of Lily Allen – la la la la (trashed by Posh and Becks so she must be ok). The stuff you have to write when filling in faculty search criteria makes me cringe, but I wonder if anyone ever would take seriously a job application that started with the words: “I only want to join your organisation to maim it” [Comrade Boucher's campaign pledge when running for election to the Academic body that used to oversee administrative evil at Melbourne University] or ‘We will fuck with your heads’ [the Director of Finance as spokesperson for a small workshop group assigned the task of translating Goldies' slogan/value 'radical thinking' into something with more edge - I do believe he had to be prompted to speak out, but certainly got mass approval]. Anyway, in this below, I edited out most of the dodgy stuff I used to say, and some of the stuff I used to do – no mention of the courts or The Party(ing) – now it seems positively tame. Ah well. Web control will approve I hope, search machines will cathect, webhost police will not flag it as objectionable content.Summary of Teaching and Admin.
As supervisor I took on my first PhD students in 1999 at Goldsmiths and seven of them have completed. I supervise a further 18 PhD students at present. Of which I have three completing in the next 3 to 6 months. My PhD students have been successful in attracting funding from the ESRC (6 grants) AHRC (5 grants) and the ORS (4 grants), as well as seven with overseas scholarships. Two students are enrolled at Goldsmiths as combined PhD candidate in a special agreement negotiated with Universities in Germany (Frankfurt and FU Berlin).
Appalled by relentless demands to conjure an image for an avatar existence, I was not sure which foto to offer for the ‘virtual graduate school’ page, so gave them this one, taken by Tara in Melbourne in 2007.
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