Uncle Bill would have shopped in Kalkadoon

http://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2007/12/19/queen-to-abdicate-at-christmas/

Clandestino July 2011

The Paper May Day edition

The Paper is at the printers tonight. But here is a sneak peak.   Anyone thinking of getting married in the next couple of days should probably have a look at the back page.   We recommend you consult The following wedding gift list.   What would you buy our favourite couple?   Matching Police [...]

May Day 2011

Spoiled for choice on May Day? A instrument for our Leninist battle in the global crisis  www.ismoi.eu  FOR us, theory always has a practical meaning – it allows us to make CRUCIAL CHOICES in the STRUGGLE.  INTERNATIONALIST OPPOSITION TO THE WARS OF EUROPEAN AND UNITARY IMPERIALISM May Day 2011  CONFERENCE At 14:30 on SUNDAY 1st May [...]

May Day 2011

1 MAY LONDON MAY DAY ORGANISING COMMITTEE celebrating for over 110 years international workers’ day May Day has been celebrated in London since the 1880s. The Committee has ensured this key day of international solidarity is marked every May 1st. Despite often being ignored by the mass media, the celebrations have maintained the traditions of [...]

downloadable texts

‘Culture Move‘ on ADF: in Ghadar May 2000 early version of the Pantomime Terror article an article on Asian Communists in the UK from Social Identities ; a piece on Fun*Da*Mental from South Asian Popular Culture; Adorno at Womad from Postcolonial Studies. The Chapatti Story from Contemporary South Asia; Michael Palin’s Himalaya in in Journal of the Moving Image The Politics of Cats from Stimulus Respond; Culture from Theory Culture [...]

Statistical measures in anticipation of the next issue of The Paper

The following are the top 20 searched for items that led people to my blog this year. There I am between possums and metropolis, or maybe more revealingly, between American Psycho and vampires. I see this as a kind of I ching-like divination of a significance I as yet do not grasp. Search Views bees [...]

For toast and marmalade in the afternoon.

The pain of loss so great that only distraction measure it’s significance. Unbearable to forget, unbearable to remember, a sort of planned denial is the only survival. I miss her so, and still cannot understand her death. I cannot introduce her to my boy, who she would have loved as if the world. It is surreal that I can [...]

Talk: Machiko Nakanishi 11 May 2011 4pm

CCS invites you to a talk by: Machiko Nakanishi The Transformation of Reflexivity　　 Venue: Goldsmiths, LG G3,  4pm, 11th May 2011 (Chair: Scott Lash) The purpose of this seminar is to discuss the transformation of reflexivity, to compare the difference of reflexivity between the UK and Japan, and to study the relation of the market [...]

Gaza protest: Saturday 14 May 2011

Join the protest: Saturday 14 May 12 noon opposite Downing Street Called by: Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Stop the War Coalition, British Muslim Initiative, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), Palestinian Forum in Britain Supported by: Amos Trust, Association of the Palestinian Community in the UK, Communications Workers Union (CWU), Fire Brigades Union (FBU), Friends of Lebanon, Friends [...]

File Notes on Christian Marazzi’s ‘The Violence of Financial Capitalism’

. On Marazzi, after reading his little Semiotext(e) booklet: The Violence of Financial Capitalism, where, among many interesting assertions, he says: “The thesis that is being put forth here is that financialization is not an unproductive/parasitic deviation of growing quotas of surplus-value and collective saving, but rather the form of capital accumulation symmetrical with new processes of value [...]

Anthropologies of Tourism

Issue 2 Anthropologies of Tourism April 2011 Tourists at Cobá, Quintana Roo, Mexico 2008 – Photo by Ryan Anderson ~ Contents ~ Introduction to this issue  Ryan Anderson Tourism: Trinketization and the Manufacture of the Exotic John Hutnyk Arrivals, perceived and actual Sarah Taylor A San Diego Cultural Narrative  Conor Muirhead Tourism Research as “Global [...]

Global Day of Action on Military Spending

Memorandum to the Malaysian Defence Minister By Malaysian NGOs on the Global Day of Action on Military Spending, April 12, 2011 In 2009 alone, global military spending rose to an all-time high amount of $1.53 TRILLION! Because we encounter countless crises in today’s world -poverty, hunger, lack of education, poor health care, and environmental issues – [...]

Press Repress

A senior United Nations representative on torture, Juan Mendez, issued a rare reprimand to the US government on Monday for failing to allow him to meet in private Bradley Manning, the American soldier held in a military prison accused of being the WikiLeaks source. It is the kind of censure that the UN normally reserves [...]

The Colonial and the National: Critical Questions. Ishita Banerjee-Dube 26 May 2011

Public Talk and discussion: The Colonial and the National: Critical Questions Professor Ishita Banerjee-Dube El Colegio de México Recent endeavours within history, anthropology, gender and postcolonial studies have pointed to the usefulness of analysing the Empire and the Nation together in order to track the critical ways they shaped each other. In particular, they have [...]

Libya: immediate ceasefire call.

PRESS RELEASE CIVILIANS FOR PEACE 7th April, 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BRITISH PEACE DELEGATION HEADS FOR LIBYA TO CALL FOR AN END TO THE KILLING LONDON – ENGLAND A twenty-five person peace delegation made up of academics, lawyers, journalists and professionals will be departing for Libya on 9th April, to call for an immediate ceasefire [...]

…ment

..ment Issue 01: Welfare Statement, O(nline)UT Now! Friends and collaborators from …ment, new online journal on contemporary art, culture and politics, have released their first issue ‘Welfare Statement’. This first issue explores recent debates on the crisis of the welfare state and related issues. Contributors include Franco Bifo Berardi, Markus Miessen, Margit Mayer, DOXA, Patrick Coyle, The [...]

Scanning the jobs section for the possibility of an admin-idioten free life, the following research post seemed like the honey pot of honey pots – a cultural history of the secret handshake??

Dodgy Dodgy Dodgy: ‘many thousands of young men have been introduced to Freemasonry through these two Lodges [Oxford and Cambridge], and they provided the inspiration for the Universities Scheme’. As blokey as Wee Willie Willets and his heinous kind.

I do hope calling for Regime Change on Danish radio is treason!

Along with some eloquent comrades, this, for Danish listeners (English snippets) is a just broadcast interview about the current conjuncture, cuts, coalition shenanigans and possibilities for regime change in the UK… Download the pod-cast here. The first 12 minutes are Lara, Nina and I. Britisk protestbevægelse Europa lige nu 03. april 2011 kl. 17:10 på P1 Seneste udsendelse (48:42) En studerende [...]

From the 6th floor of New Arts to here.

Dr Peter Phipps, Prof Klaus Peter Koepping and I, in some sort of three amigos mode, discuss the good ol days of trouble-making at the University of Melbourne.