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recap of recents

  • Veblen trinkets – irksomeness of labour 21/05/2019
  • How to guides… Poppy cultivation 27/03/2019
  • Sumanta Banerjee Marx adda 22/03/2019
  • The Fantasist of Calcutta has a plaque 14/03/2019
  • The counter-revolution in Venezuela, by Saleh Mamon 08/02/2019
  • Penal-izing poverty, drug retail and migrants – Louie Wacquant 05/02/2019
  • Marx Trot on again in 2019? 01/02/2019
  • cut from the draft of the pecuniary animus of the university… 30/01/2019
  • “learned scribes” – Marx to Kugelman 1868 15/01/2019
  • Slum tourism 11/01/2019
  • Metro hoarding. HCMC. 07/01/2019
  • Schzmexit 02/01/2019
  • Minimalism 31/12/2018
  • Pantomime Terror 21/12/2018
  • what do you call that reorder edit – on a crooked line of Marx 17/12/2018
  • Worker or Labour 16/12/2018
  • Rosa now more than ever 12/12/2018
  • Boy Scout 09/12/2018
  • ‘Citizen Marx/Kane’ in “Marx at the Movies”, 2014 09/12/2018
  • Burroughs cartoon From Paris Review by Nathan Gelgud, adapted from Miles and Burroughs Esquire baboon Manifest. 08/12/2018
  • Yemen 04/12/2018
  • Multitude redux Empire: wrong way, don’t go back, we should leave too. 26/11/2018
  • The museum of vernacular regeneration 24/11/2018
  • Training Adorno 17/11/2018
  • Reblogged: useful list of Left History stuff 03/11/2018
  • “Poetry or Pogrom” – Interview at Erbacce Journal 03/11/2018
  • Innovations… Conference 4-5 October 2019, TDTU, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 01/11/2018
  • Marx in Calcutta, 2018, CITY, Vol 22 (4); 490-509. 04/10/2018
  • Ukraine. 16/09/2018
  • Palma Africana – Taussig 14/09/2018
  • Prisoners of Love 13/09/2018
  • Taussig’s negative sublime 11/09/2018
  • Happy 115th birthday beloved Teddy. 11/09/2018
  • Mela- Alexander 31/08/2018
  • A World of Pain and Suffering and Dispossession: Remembering Sri Lankan Tamil Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide 07/08/2018
  • MLP v Wonderland #mykidcoulddothat #prouddad 29/07/2018
  • Protests in Vietnam (guest post) 21/07/2018
  • Articles to download 21/07/2018
  • Marx’s Library 12/07/2018
  • Destruction of weavers 11/07/2018
  • Kiwi, the imaginary ethnographer 09/07/2018
  • Indexing 06/07/2018
  • Abolition 06/07/2018
  • scamming journalographica (trinketization at large) 04/07/2018
  • Old Beardo 02/07/2018
  • History tick tock 27/06/2018
  • Marx on India in 1857 25/06/2018
  • What did Friedrich Engels have to say about Australia? 24/06/2018
  • Jabs up to date? – better be, legacies of global beneficence and payback owed by anti-vaxxers. 10/06/2018
  • Handy hints on cracking up 09/06/2018
  • Touro-terror-ists 25/05/2018
  • Buy Books Not Bombs 19/05/2018
  • De-centrifuedalised or tropicalization: Marx outside the Euro-American Circuits 15/05/2018
  • The Rumour of Calcutta – digital book 05/05/2018
  • party -stay or go? 02/05/2018
  • Rosa on Lenin p298 Mimi’s Critique 02/05/2018
  • Marx’s 200th birth anniversary is in a week. what’s planned? [please add what’s on in your city] 29/04/2018
  • Mushies 28/04/2018
  • Prison Photography Reframed: Object and Method 27/04/2018
  • Volunteer Tourism 24/04/2018
  • Critique of Marxist Musicology (lack in the Blak, Politics in the Lyrics, ears in the fears, bound to sound…) 24/04/2018
  • Coppice. 24/04/2018
  • Burning bookshops is the new face of fascism, draped in a flag, and making America hate again. 24/04/2018
  • Thesis 11 on Adorno 23/04/2018
  • Assembling the early 1990s again in Melbourne 20/04/2018
  • Smuggling – of tea to Scotland? 29/03/2018
  • Opium not as interesting as money for the parliament, even as… 28/03/2018
  • PubliCity (2005) 26/03/2018
  • Recent-ish occasionals 25/03/2018
  • Steve Redhead: Theoretical Times 17/03/2018
  • Enviro-mental-ism 11/03/2018
  • Semi-Feurdal Cyber-colonialism 28/02/2018
  • Restored 18th century Danish tavern to be inaugurated today 28/02/2018
  • Klaus-Peter Koepping 28/02/2018
  • Dark side of the Souvenirs 25/02/2018
  • Robinson Crusoe as a 1947 Soviet film… and a 1980 English [1870s] French operetta. 20/02/2018
  • An export industry in ‘defence’ is a croc of shit – Turnbull comes the raw prawn. 29/01/2018
  • Miniaturization is trinketization. 29/01/2018
  • On Madhava Prasad 29/01/2018
  • Supriya Choudhury 26/01/2018
  • Perception. A study in the obvious 10/01/2018
  • The Discovery of India – Nehru (Roshan Seth) 03/01/2018
  • Backpackers in Calcutta again 27/12/2017
  • Cartographic Abstraction in Contemporary Art: Seeing with maps 21/12/2017
  • Spivak: What time is it on the world clock? 03/12/2017
  • Factory Inspections, in Chicago and more 29/11/2017
  • Opening books 27/11/2017
  • The Rumour of Calcutta 26/11/2017
  • Turkey. 24/11/2017
  • Danish Tavern Serampore 22/11/2017
  • Reminder to self to read this again, and again (3 times and it might stick). Spivak’s telegraphed coda. 19/11/2017
  • Karen Tam opiumartifacts. 14/11/2017
  • Do you remember when Australia did this for CHOGM? So its not just a ‘commonwealth’ thing. 12/11/2017
  • Red Tape – Local/Global Culture Visual 11/11/2017
  • Marx on the future and present ‘collective worker’. 05/11/2017
  • When the press covers news 01/11/2017
  • Mr Ram Nath Kovind, President of India, There are many in your jails, but some I have invited for talks at University of London several times. This requires your immediate action sir. Thank-you. 30/10/2017
  • Max Weber on India Key References 28/10/2017
  • Reading UNESCO’s 2017/8 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report 28/10/2017
  • Review of Zoogenesis: Thinking Encounter with Animals 16/10/2017
  • More Marx on Slavery 25/09/2017
  • Indian Cinema 19/09/2017
  • Great interview with Jay Murphy on Artaud’s Metamorphosis and more. 15/09/2017
  • Angela Nagle on Mark Fisher. 13/09/2017
  • Surplus value and care 10/09/2017
  • Statues – 1970 Kolkata. 04/09/2017
  • Blackboard Capital 10/08/2017
  • Enoch Light – Command Records 09/08/2017
  • Bollywood and women 03/08/2017
  • Glimpses from Calcutta’s Old Chinatown: The Oldest Chinatown outside Southeast Asia 06/07/2017
  • Defoe on prisons 1698 05/07/2017
  • English heritage trinkets 29/05/2017
  • Collusion @collusion #collusion #foreigninterference 27/05/2017
  • Notebooks (Artaud’s for example) 24/05/2017
  • Semifeudal Cybercolonialism: Technocratic Dreamtime in Malaysia 29/04/2017
  • Gunnersbury Bagh. (Kill your darlings 10) 26/04/2017
  • Kill your darlings no. 9 – more cuts and buts… 21/04/2017
  • More Questions than Answers? statistics and stories. Columbia 21.4.17 17/04/2017
  • Kill your darlings 8 14/04/2017
  • kill your darlings 7 – soon there will only be seven words left… 14/04/2017
  • Kill your darlings part 7 13/04/2017
  • Kill your darlings #6 11/04/2017
  • kill your darlin’s day 5 (missed a day) still slashing away, detritus for the record… 04/04/2017
  • day 4 of kill your darlings, the word hoard is desiccated & gets ever thinner. 02/04/2017
  • Snip – day three casualties. Kill your darlings. Draft paras that did not make the final edit 01/04/2017
  • More snips from the cutting room floor 30/03/2017
  • This is what a revolution looks like – ahem, slash and burn editing – killing your darlings with the delete button 28/03/2017
  • Security Theatre 23/03/2017
  • Jay Murphy Books&Books Event 24.3.17 – Artaud’s Metamorphosis 21/03/2017
  • Begum Jaan – trailer (remake of Rajkahini, রাজকাহিনী) 16/03/2017
  • Bangladeshi Cinema and Tanvir Mokammel’s “1971”, a review of John Hood’s ‘The Bleeding Lotus’ 10/03/2017
  • Collection of interviews with Indian documentary makers. 08/03/2017
  • Saibaba ‘given’ life = court takes life from a nice guy in awful #repressive state anti #maoist trumped up show trial.  07/03/2017
  • Film India archive 23/02/2017
  • What is Trinketization 22/02/2017
  • Pantomime terrorism hits Sweden 20/02/2017
  • Concentrate on the camps  20/02/2017
  • Can’t say there was no alternative candidate… 16/02/2017
  • More on the bees, and Avatar 21/01/2017
  • Marx in Algiers again 08/01/2017
  • News sites at first blush 07/01/2017
  • Brand PhD. #gnnnngg 06/01/2017
  • New Book by Jay Murphy on Antonin Artaud 10/12/2016
  • Hutnyk 01/12/2016
  • Artaud’s Metamorphosis: From Hieroglyphs to Bodies without Organs 29/11/2016
  • De Quincey’s first time. Works 2, p43 27/11/2016
  • Prison Abolition Syllabus 22/11/2016
  • Fan on  17/11/2016
  • maoistroad: Stop Operation Green Hunt! MalkaNGIRI & Bhopal 15/11/2016
  • Alliances not self promotion. Bataille would already have joined  12/11/2016

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The Rumour of Calcutta

Reviews of a twenty year old book. Yup, Thanks heaps:

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Now scanned: https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2018/05/05/the-rumour-of-calcutta-digital-book/

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