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recap of recents

Opiates and the Volk 15/11/2019
Critique of Anthropology 14/11/2019
Bougainville Independence in 10 Days to shake the world… 13/11/2019
Immigration force 01/11/2019
downloads 19/10/2019
Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities #ISSH2019 08/10/2019
International Conference: Innovation in the Social Sciences and Humanities TDTU 2019 prime time 06/10/2019
ISSH2019 02/10/2019
The conference agenda for Innovation in the Social Sciences and Humanities at Ton Duc Thang University October 4 & 5, 2019 28/09/2019
contradictions of capital 25/09/2019
Sundarbans, Climate, Tigers, Law. 24/09/2019
Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, saying… 23/09/2019
International Conference on Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities at Ton Duc Thang University October 4-5, 2019 23/09/2019
Marx in Calcutta, 2018, CITY, Vol 22 (4); 490-509. 22/09/2019
Jadavpur University and the pecuniary investment jealousy rag (need some infrastructure surely). 21/09/2019
What is science in Social Science and what has the history of Philosophy had to say about it? 21/09/2019
Global South Asia On Screen: India only edition. 15/09/2019
Cóc Linh Tuệ Giác 10/09/2019
Mother of Pearl 09/09/2019
Marx on farming, money markets, silver to India and umbrella manufacture 08/09/2019
The Higher Learning 08/09/2019
Comparison 03/09/2019
Global Digital Cultures 30/08/2019
Reviews of the city 22/08/2019
JNU & University Strikes in Delhi 09/08/2019
Frantz Fanon on Care, and more. 09/08/2019
Trinkets from Bác Hồ 04/08/2019
Derek Sayer. Ethnographic fragments #23: erasing history in San Francisco, censorship Canadian-style, and two women of courage and conviction – coasts of bohemia 01/07/2019
What did you do in the war… 28/06/2019
Global South Asia On Screen: India only edition. 28/06/2019
trinkets not covered for removal 27/06/2019
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