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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Holberg Week links.

Gayatri Spivak Holberg Week links for the livestreams: Tuesday:a symposium: ‘The Power of the Humanities’https://holbergprize.org/events-and-productions/holberg_symposium-the-power-of-the-humanities/ Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, 2025 Holberg Laureate, and University Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. Emily Apter, Julius Silver Professor of Comparative Literature and French…

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Comparative adversaria of Gandhi and Marx: self-clarification through thinking in diaries and letters

Comparative adversaria of Gandhi and Marx self clarification through thinking in diaries and lettersDownload

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Madness of militarism reprise (run run run)

The CIA brags about the US being the largest weapons exporter/producer – Psycho killer, qu’est-ce que c’est? From their very own world factbook. that one browses over coffee in the mornings … because that is the totally perverted world from which it might be fa, fa, fa, fa, fa, fa, fa, far better to run, run, run, run, run, run, run away. These below are some semi-random selections from the CIA…

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The Relevance of Post-colonial Imagination in 21st Century Asia

子計畫一The Relevance of Post-colonial Imagination in 21st Century Asia後殖民想像的文化批判在二十一世紀亞洲的意義和相關性Date & Time：2025/05/26 09:00-18:00Venue：R106A, HA Building 2, Guangfu Campus, NYCURegistration：https://forms.gle/4vQKohC3Sk1ybR2h8 （Deadline for registration: 2025/05/21)Format：Hybrid (online & in-person) Online meeting link will be sent out 3 days before the event.* The event will be conducted in…

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Tomer naam, amar naam, Vietnam Vietnam! Folk styles and solidarity in the Bengali new wave cinema 2023

John Hutnyk Tomar naam amar naam Vietnam Vietnam Folk styles and solidarity in the Bengali new wave cinemaDownload

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Tales from the Raj

The contortions of Empire got a new lease of life in recent years, again, ugh, over and over, the deeply problematic desire to lord it over others as a madness… Yup, there are things that this book review might have glossd, and not made the case for postcolonial because the hestiations were more necessary—”nor do I subscribe to any notion of the “post-colonial” except insofar as it refers in a…

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Critique of Exotica - 50% 0f in May

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The Chapatti Story and hybridity

I recently had reason to request a debunking text from someone and it came today. In return I sent my pennysworth about a long interest in rumour after having discussed it at length sitting at a chai stall in Calcutta with Anjan Ghosh late 80s, early 90s (sme of those chats morphed into my first book). The key texts on rumour for us in those days came from Subaltern Studies and especially…

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Kohei Saito

question for the presentation on Marx’s Ecosocialism, which was a very interesting talk just now My question was read out, though not all because it was afterall too long adn sent in bits because o some net glitching or sme such, bt for my future notes… Thank you for your work, as ever, very interesting. A question I have is what this degrowth communism might mean for the mega city? Can…

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Rarities and b-sides...

Another one from the big round plastic green filing cabinet… Perhaps I should point out that the editors changed the start of page two, without informing me, to “For God’s sake…”. That, friends, is something I would never say—and I was well pissed that thy removed the word I had written, which, all things considered, was a bit less god-bothery, and was certainly much more intentionally…

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The Strategic Plan of the Working Day

Special offer! Try to download this article here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/04866134241289495 … and then send me a screenshot john.hutnyk[at] gmail.com that shows you tried, and I can send you a copy as a friend, which of course I’d do directly, but this works ’round the metrics regs 🙂 – fwiw.

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To the managment -

For the malignant parasitic upper-mugwumps, circa 1989

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Ali France wins Australia over Peter Dutton.

. Maybe the worst thing about the Trump-eect will be things like this: – the resuscitation of the liberals in Canada… – the unification of the Australian middle of the road around insipid labour (far better than mini-Trump back track Dutton, but by no means good). – the unification of ASEAN, Mid-East and China trade and markets through digital renminbi instant cheap money transfer. –…

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Music for Europ-Maoists

an old piece from the journal Theory Culture and Society Music for Euro-Maoists – on the correct handling of contradictions among the peopleDownload

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Kunstwerk und Kritik

Musik für Euro-Maoisten in Kunstwerk und Kritik 2003 by jour fixe initiative Hutnyk Musik für Euro-Maoisten in Kunstwerk und Kritik 2003 jour fixe initiativeDownload

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Proletarianisation

May Day. On proletarianisation. Consider the extent to which you contribute to the production of surplus value, directly or indirectly (working for wages or not, adding value to another persons’ labour perhaps, or just looking at the algorithms of the industrial entertainment complex), and consider how this is then expropriated by those – oligarchs mostly, arms dealers adn their mates, big…

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Ho Chi Minh City - #hot #vietnam #liberation #reunification

A much slicker photo of HCMC/Saigon last night than I could ever get on my phone (or with any kit probably) – lifted with thanks from Vietnam Travel Agency in the North (from zuckworld, who for some reason prohibited sharing directly – does the loss still rankle even after all the assembly work, commodity onslaught, friendship tourism and reconciliations [but still no payment of the promised…