Trinketization

Hasn’t the sheer abundance of chit-chat made criticism, and even journalism you pay for, obsolete?

The ISSH2026 confernce proceedings – check it out.

painting by Rene Magritte. xx Excellent questions from my anth class today: “…a question related to Social Anthropology: how do we truly understand another person when we may not share the same way of experiencing and interpreting the world?

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/bio/marx/eleanor-literature.htm From the ever useful Marx/Engels Internet Archive Marx Biography Biographical Notes on Marx’s Literary Interests by Eleanor Marx-Aveling Abstract Source: Marx Engels On Literature and A…

Reminded of this from late last year and wonder if the algorithm throws up skynet references in late August because anniversaries still matter?

Edited by Claire – but if you need the pdfs and cannot get them through the usual ways, email me to send em.

The admittedly slow, difficult, work of reading for the detail, while still critical – albeit of a ‘very heterodox Marxism’ – is still the criteria by which it seems necessary to persevere (even if the tediously slow yet rapid demand for text in publish or

Thirty years of this book.

From ‘Melbourne Journal of Politics’ 1986 originally, reprinted in The Postcolonial Critic, ed Sarah Harasym 1990 The Post-Colonial Critic Interview MJP with by Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakDownload

This text is well worth your time… (I have, for this blogsnip, retitled it from a phrase in one of the early paragraphs, apologies, but some of this is excellent, and all of it is, well, dedicated work – much appreciated – check out the link as the pdf do…

The anthropological project, tired and exhausted after years searching for ‘methodological absolution’, remains mired in a spiral of self-doubt and self-indulgent ‘crisis’.

Note to self.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “The last hereditary Welsh prince, Owain Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, built Powis castle as a craggy fort in the 13th century; the estate was his reward for abandoning Wales to the rule of the English monarchy.

If you saw the film Injustice, about deaths in UK police custody, and then Ken’s UltraViolence, or saw any Migrant Media stuff, or if you just want something that is not as BLAND and Bourgeois as Channel Four documentaries [sic – we screened Injustice on…

Anthropologists, somewhat unconsciously, remained for a long time in the position of conservative culture camp commandants—overseers of a pickled-in-aspic view of ‘the native’ that was not far removed from colonial explorer adventure safari or, at best, p…

Your article, Contested Glories of Selective Renovation in West Bengal, has been published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, and is now available for you to access via Taylor & Francis Online.

Unbeknownst to each other, my much missed brother and I each got Enfield’s about the same time (his a continental) and might have shared notes if he’d rode on to his birthday, which would be today.

a pop up from some old search topic reports JF saying the following: “In his conference presentation John Hutnyk (see this volume) indicated that even to discuss music at a time of global terror and of the demonization of the Asian minority populations ac…

Imogen Bunting

there are many instances of sentences written to specific people – love you all – that are also just thinking out loud, so this here below is one of those I want to keep to remind myself to take such advice sometimes….

Review of Madhava Prasad’s 2014 book seems now more than ever… “Cine-Politics asserts that after a distinct period in which writers were dominant in the movies, the celebrity star system took hold, and this star persona system now acts like a contagion.

“Asian workers ‘at home’ have been organized, culturally and politically, and have provided a critique of anthropological categorisation themselves by focusing on political and organizational issues.