The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza – Eyal Weizman (Verso, just out)

expect a review on NXRB soon.

The Life and Music of A.L. Lloyd. Book event 29 May 2102

Goldsmiths Popular Music Research Units presents The Life and Music of A.L. Lloyd. A talk by Dave Arthur to coincide with the publication of his book Bert: The Life and Times of A.L. Lloyd (Pluto Press). Small Hall Cinema, Richard Hoggart Building Tuesday 29 May, 5.00pm, followed by drinks in the Senior Common Room. All [...]

booty

Back from New York with this haul of bargain (some full price) booty. Especially pleased to have the Cesaire, the Draper, the 50th Anniversary Naked Lunch, Ronnel’s ‘Loser Sons’ and all the Fitzgerald. Ahh, just noticed FSF’s ‘On Booze’ is not there – I also snapped that up for reading on the plane, in between watching flicks [...]

New Cross Review of Books

About NXRB Book Reviews from the Big Crabapple that is NX, London. This is a haphazard collection of reviews old and new. Of course we are not competing with any of the other fine book review rags out there from other towns like New York or London, it’s just that… We will accept contributions where they [...]

Beyond Borders.

Possible blurb for the book on borders (edited volume, nearly done, press details soon) Beyond Borders – ed, John Hutnyk This collection of essays, graphics and theatre displaces our understandings of borders so that we cannot look the same way at that which invades our everyday, that which kills and excludes, that which sounds out [...]

Popular Music and Human Rights

Pantomime Terror in print (see downloads page for the pdf). This is the flyer for the set: Popular Music and Human Rights 2-vol set

Currently reading Andrew Herscher – Violence Taking Place

While the construction of architecture has a place in architectural discourse, its destruction, generally seen as incompatible with the very idea of “culture,” has been neglected in theoretical and historical discussion. Responding to this neglect, Herscher examines the case of the former Yugoslavia and in particular, Kosovo, where targeting architecture has been a prominent dimension [...]

On Burning Books

Topical this week, but its always been true that the way the pages crumple one by one as they burn is strangely fascinating…. Via the link is a chapter length text I wrote some time ago (currently under consideration for Space and Culture). Given a certain newsworthiness in relation to the eye-popping-mad pastor Terry Jones, [...]

Methods and Ethnography

OK, asked for references twice in two days on the same thing, so started thinking what I might reread if I was going to think about methods and ethnography now: Mitchell Duneier, “Sidewalk” – a thoughtful study of magazine vendors in New York. A bit too worthy and street, but some good stuff on doubt. [...]

For Daisy

One of my nieces in Australia has a high school project which entails asking people: “Do you Like reading – Why,  What does reading do for you, what comes to your mind when you think about reading and What makes a peice of literature – to you?”  So I have responded, no doubt with the overkill of someone playing the [...]

Literature and Film Go Wild in the Streets: from Burning Books to the War on Terror.

Abstract for Joel (to be written up by March) Literature and Film Go Wild in the Streets: from Burning Books to the War on Terror. Book burning is something close to the heart of novelist Salman Rushdie, whose work, The Satanic Majesties was famously burnt in Bradford  twenty years back (and in India six months [...]

離散與混雜

離散與混雜 = Diaspora and Hybridity – now available in Chinese (unlike this blog). (and crikey, babel fish does a bad job of rendering the Chinese title – calling it  ”Separate and promiscuous” ?? – but I expect babel hasn’t really got a good grip on Kanji – I know I haven’t – trying to learn some for [...]

Google clouded my book

Accursed Share Adorno Althusser analysis anthropology anti-capitalism archive bad Marxism Bataille Bataille’s Bhabha called capital capitalistchapattis circulationCollege of Sociology colonial commodity communism communist contemporary context critical critique cultural studies debate debt Derrida and Sprinkler dialectical discussion displacement economic Empire engagement essay ethnography example exchange exploitation fascism fieldwork Freud Gayatri Spivak Georges Bataille gift global Goldsmiths [...]

Godard “British Sounds” pt 1

You can find Jean-Luc Godard’s “British Sounds” in all its glory on You Tube now. It is worth watching all the way through (6 parts) – from the ‘petroleum of pop music’ and excerpts from the great Shiela Rowbothom to the “gestapo of the humanist university” (they mean LSE). ‘No end to class struggle’ in [...]

Dis-Orienting Rhythms: the politics of the new Asian dance music

Reposted from Dark Matter. by Sanjay Sharma • 8 Mar 09 • Dis-Orienting Rhythms: the politics of the new Asian dance music (1996, Zed books), edited by Sanjay Sharma, John Hutnyk and Ash Sharma. “This book writes back the presence of South Asian youth into a rapidly expanding and exuberant music scene; and celebrates this [...]

Away With All Gods

Bob Avakian has written the first book in years that makes me actually want to re-read the Bible, but this time as freaky horror show, weirded out fiction and gothic nightmare. Everyone should read Away With All Gods because it is necessary, critical and timely, but also because it is a book written with joy [...]

American Anthropologist reviews our Celebrating Transgression book.

Click on the image to enlarge. Celebrating Transgression. 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/

Amitava Kumar writes again

A new book – a novel! – by my good friend Amitava Kumar. Get it. Don’t delay. See here for reviews and so forth. Home Products February 2007 A film director asks Binod, who is a journalist in Bombay, to produce a portrait of a murdered girl, a poet killed by a politician by whom [...]

Sacred Media Cow

From Somnath over on on “Sacred Media Cow” [SACREDMEDIACOW is an independent postgraduate collective on Indian media research and production at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London]: Oh Calcutta Published by Somnath Batabyal February 26th, 2007 in Som’s Blog. Folks, been away from active blogging for a while. [...]

Powell’s Books – Bad Marxism: Capitalism and Cultural Studies by John Hutnyk

Powell’s Books – Bad Marxism: Capitalism and Cultural Studies by John Hutnyk: “Bad Marxism: Capitalism and Cultural Studiesby John HutnykISBN:0745322662 (More details…)Available at:Quimby WarehouseSynopses & ReviewsBook News Annotation:To Hutnyk (anthropology and cultural studies, Goldsmiths College, UK), figures like James Clifford, Jacques Derrida, Antonio Negri, and other theorists of ‘cultural studies’ have had a substantial impact [...]