Paganopoulos on Keith Hart

When Weber Met Durkheim: The Visions of Keith Hart for a ‘New World Society’ as Prophecy of a New Order’ By Michelangelo Paganopoulos “…Hart’s above reading of ‘anthropology’ as a moral, and therefore, religious force has been severely criticized in the past as ‘imperialist’, allegedly following the political neo-liberal agenda of the only dominant power, [...]

Why I love Spivak

Yet another reason anyway… Not only is “Critique of Postcolonial Reason” a great book (for teaching, for method, for insight), but Gayatri is generous and committed, and she liked my rumour book: ‘A case in point would be John Hutnyk’s brilliant book “The Rumour of Calcutta”…’ in Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty “Harlem” Social Text – 81 [...]

Tragic – the Goldsmiths elephant is dead.

It is with sadness that I report the demise of the Goldsmiths Elephant. Tuskers generally have a hard time in New Cross these days, and alas, this one too has gone the way of many of our wonderous local wild life.

By Gum – another mad saatchism.

By Gum – another Saatchism from the Tory propagandists – everyone should sign up to this just to see how mad it might be. Global intelligence?? Who makes this stuff up? Its gotta be a prank… “GUM; Saatchi & Saatchi’s latest brainchild, is preparing to launch CULT-GEISTT – its global intelligence network. At GUM we [...]

DEATHS IN CUSTODY

UNITED FAMILES & FRIENDS CAMAPIGN DEATHS IN CUSTODY FAMILIES TO MARCH ON DOWNING STREETLondon Saturday 29th October 2005.Assemble 1pm at Trafalgar Square for a march and demonstration to Downing Street The United Families & Friends Campaign – the national coalition of death in custody family campaigns – today announced its seventh annual remembrance procession. The [...]

Tampopo

Tampopo (1985) Directed by Juzo ItamiScreening – 6pm, Cinema, Goldsmiths, Tuesday 25th October.All welcome. No charge.(+ visit to noodle shop in Elephant and Castle after the film). I don’t know how to describe the film. Many rave about it:9 out of 10 people found the following comment useful:-My All-Time Favorite Movie!, 25 July 2002Author: underpussy [...]

‘War of the Worlds’

On watching sci-mentat Tom Cruise bomb in ‘War of the Worlds’. Its impossible not to read the film as one big panic about terrorists attacking America. The hero (Cruise) just wants to protect his kids and the pregnant mum in her perfect home (even if its not quite perfect). He is prepared to reluctantly sacrifice [...]

New Cross and Rotherhithe

Bob from Brockley writes:“New Cross and RotherhitheFrom Goldsmiths blogger, John Hutnyk, a nice post on Prangsta in New Cross.From one of the most beautiful blogs on the web, a good place for a cup of tea and a think, a post on H’s Cafe, Neptune Street. (If you like this, check out sibling blog eggbaconchipsandbeans.)Tag: [...]

The Seven Year Itch

The film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, (dir. Howard Hawks – came out in the US the same year as the Kinsey Report – 1953. First Playboy out then too). It is famous for many reasons, but for me most importantly because it made movie stars into export commodities. This kind of export – crucially, like the [...]

Odd Obsession

Film Screening – all welcome (please distribute widely). Goldsmiths College, Cinema, Tuesday 18th October. 6PM Kon, Ichikawa’s “Odd Obsession” [1960 Colour, 107 Mins, Eng Subtitles.] stars Machiko Kyo, Ganjiro Nakamura, Junko Kano, Ichiro Sugai… “Aging… desire… jealosy… comic tragedy” – from the video blurb. All welcome.

why film students babble on about Orson Welles

‘I still wonder why film students babble on about Orson Welles … Even the worst films of Russ Meyer are infinitely more interesting than Citizen Kane’ (Waters 2005:12) I still believe we can learn a lot about the world as it appears to us today from an old movie from another time – Citizen Kane. [...]

The Akha heritage Foundation

“Today, I’d like to present excerpts from athought-provoking book by John Hutnyk, entitled ‘TheRumour of Calcutta: tourism, charity and the povertyof representation’. The book was already published in1996, and some of you may remember that I mailed out asummary at the time when tourism NGOs began to discussas to how to apply the ‘fair trade’ [...]

Bob from Brockley

Bob from Brockley writes: “On the topic of Left Curve, issue 23 carries a poem by the great poet Ken Smith, who has sadly since left this earth. I also recommend this interview with Agnes Heller and this enjoyably ultra-leftist attack by John Hutnyk on the happily now defunct band Kula Shaker .” Thanks Bob.

Steve Vise

Hello My Darling Patpong Road: This is a link to video footage of part of Steev’s set at the Big Sur Experimental Music Festival, May 19, 2001. This clip shows the premiere of this performance piece. The piece was inspired by two books: Hello My Big Big Honey: Love Letters to Bangkok Bar Girls and [...]

Hector Rottweiller

Bashing out notes for a lecture/text on the Culture Industry. Reading Adorno’s essay ‘National Socialism and the Arts’. He wrote this in 1946, but I think he might have meant it to be read today. When he talks about the social and political situation of popular music after the second imperialist world war – as [...]

Prangsta and co

Along the high street that is the Western front of Goldsmiths College, just near the plush offices of Debtford Town Hall, our immediate environs – and significantly the College’s street credibility – are enhanced by a couple of shops that have graduated from rather ratty used clothes joints to impressive art forms in their own [...]

"Shoot to Kill" London Police – October 11 Goldsmiths

“Shoot to Kill” seminar Discussion with Tariq Mehmood (novelist, filmmaker), Ziauddin Sardar (academic, tv presenter), Arun Kundnani (Institute of Race Relations) and others about race, war and policing in London post July 7. Starts: 18:00 – 11 October 2005 Ends: 20:00 – 11 October 2005Location: Small Hall/Cinema, Main Building Goldsmiths College LondonCost: nilFor further details, [...]

Cops/army Campus!!!

Two stories from the Education press that I really hope are a wind up. Crikey. [click to enlarge] 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/

Sigur Ros concert in Portland…

Jen Dawson reviews Sigur Ros concert in Portland… another CCS graduate makes good…http://www.nonstarvingartists.com/Columns/jdawson/column.2005-10-02.9757594952. 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/

Howard Potter

Dr Howard Potter. While on the topic of PhD students, another of my supervisees gained a gong today. Howard Potter submitted his bound manuscripts to Senate House, Uni of London, (two copies – topic, the Sachsenhausen museum in Oranienberg) and so he becomes the third Goldsmiths PhD I’ve seen through – look out world! Howard [...]