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 So I also thought I should use the opportunity to update the long out of date blurb on my college webpage.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.********
J.Hutnyk: Summary of Research.
Three single authored monographs (1996, 2000, 2004) each extensively reviewed and cited, and marking distinct research areas: urban studies, music, cultural theory.One co-authored book (Diaspora and Hybridity 2005) and three edited book collections (1996, 1999, Jan 2006), each making openings for new research.
With regard to my longstanding investigations into the politics of tourism and urbanism, both the monograph The Rumour of Calcutta: Tourism, Charity and the Poverty of Representation (Zed books 1996) and the edited collection “Travel Worlds: Journeys in Contemporary Cultural Politics” (Zed 1999) were widely reviewed. Since the mid 1990s I have been researching on music and politics. Producing a monograph “Critique of Exotica: Music Politics and the Culture Industry” (Pluto 2000), the co-authored book Diaspora and Hybridity (Sage 2005), the edited collection “Dis-Orienting Rhythms: the politics of the New Asian Dance Music” (Zed 1996) and special issues on “Music and Politics” in the journals Postcolonial Studies (Vol 1,3 1998) and Theory, Culture and Society (17.3 2000).
In 2004, Pluto Press agreed to publish a collection of essays called “Bad Marxism: Cultural Studies and Capitalism“. This latter volume consolidates my research at the intersections of anthropology, cultural studies and philosophy which continued with the special festshrifft volume “Celebrating Transgression: Method and Politics in Anthropological Studies of Culture” (co-edited 2006) on anthropological method.
As a researcher I have always worked in collaborative projects with other scholars. In particular this has occurred around the Transl-asia group, which takes as its themes South Asian diaspora, cultural politics and contemporary transnational movements. I can refer to some twelve volumes of varied work from this group, more than a dozen conferences and workshops (six of which I have organized). Through this group I have been instrumental in assisting younger researchers find employment in colleges and universities in the UK. Our research program continues with an edited volume to be called “A Postcolonial People?” (2006 Hurst).
Current research involves work on film, documentary and television, the fruit of teaching on the MA Visual Anthropology and the Anthropology and Representation course (see under teaching) and on Borders. A big monograph is 60% complete, to be called Colour TV: Black and White Life (publisher interest confirmed). Another research program involves collaboration with Julian Henriques in an interdisciplinary (music, theory, politics, ethnography) project around the notion of Sonic Diaspora and I am a long way towards completing (this summer!! before Emile is born) a book to be called Pantomime Terror.
I am developing a research project on Trinketization and this has been in collaboration with Klaus Peter Koepping, Michael Dutton and Joel McKim among others. It extends early work on cultural artifacts (souvenirs, music, film) and objects in theory – Marx’s metaphors and obsessions with coats, linen, brandy, bibles, soup recipes etc., – and objects in films – such as the snowdome in Citizen Kane, and in Benjamin and Adorno’s work – the snowdome as miniature tv etc etc. This is new speculative research – explored on my blog Trinketization as well. Who knows where it will end up?
Finally I retain a longstanding academic and political links with Australian scholars and activists, such as Peter Phipps, Angie Mitropoulos, Ben Ross and Linda Leung (visiting fellow at Goldsmiths in 2005) on issues of detention and incarceration in the UK and Australia. I gained initial grant money for this from the Association of Commonwealth Universities and Professor Paul James and Peter Phipps have substantial funding from the ARC (I was a Visiting Fellow at their Globalism Institute in 2003).
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).
In terms of curriculum design, among other courses such as Methods of Cultural Analysis, General Principles of Anthropology, for eight years I ran the largest option course in the Anthropology department: Anthropology and Representation (MA, UG Theory and practice; some 80+ ethnographic films produced, and over 130 photographic essays). I currently teach a course on Marx’s Capital and the PhD Seminar in the Centre for Cultural Studies, plus reading groups on Capital and the works of V.I.Lenin, Adorno, Freud, Spivak, or Marx, as the mood takes us.
Since 2003 I have been with the Centre for Cultural Studies and instrumental in the development of CCS. I am currently Professor of Cultural Studies, Academic Director of the Centre and convener of the PhD program. I sit on several college committees and boards [ie Graduate School Advisory], as well as the Promotions Committee and Academic Board of the college.
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Bio Version 3: If for some mad reason you want more, ask to see my CV. There are a bunch of pdfs of journal articles available on the Texts link of this blog, and links to books here – JH.
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.
