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John Hutnyk @johnhutnyk.bsky.social · Sep 13

Cartoon Weapons Industry

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John Hutnyk @johnhutnyk.bsky.social · 3d

Watching Snuff Films at Mar a Largo

On January 3 2026, after the strike on Venezuela, Trump called up what I assume is now his second most favourite programme Fox and Freinds to say: 'I watched it literally like I was watching a television show”. Well well. Did you also watch the Cubans being…

Watching Snuff Films at Mar a Largo

On January 3 2026, after the strike on Venezuela, Trump called up what I assume is now his second most favourite programme Fox and Freinds to say: 'I watched it literally like I was watching a television show”. Well well. Did you also watch the Cubans being killed? Snuff film fan you. Not that there are no precedents for this sort of thing, to be fair.

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John Hutnyk @johnhutnyk.bsky.social · 10d

Bardot with Marson Mats

Just to add to the frenzy; RIP. see original at (h/t Neil D): See also:

Bardot with Marson Mats

Just to add to the frenzy; RIP. see original at (h/t Neil D): See also:

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John Hutnyk @johnhutnyk.bsky.social · 12d

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132nd birth anniversary

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John Hutnyk @johnhutnyk.bsky.social · 12d

132nd birth anniversary

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Edgard Varèse

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Edgard Verèse

If you have any interest in electronic music, classical, experimental, or just music, or humanity, in general, today is the day to listen again to the works of the great Edgard Varèse. Theremin fans will know his work, but there is more intensity and to him than that. A number of…

Edgard Verèse

If you have any interest in electronic music, classical, experimental, or just music, or humanity, in general, today is the day to listen again to the works of the great Edgard Varèse. Theremin fans will know his work, but there is more intensity and to him than that. A number of excellent collections of his works exist, and exhibition books of aphorisms, performance notes, and biography all worth the time — I dunno with what end, I mean, beyond expansion of your world, the possibilities of sound, the knowledge that such experiments exist, that there were dedicated and relentless explorers of the outer reaches of creativity, as if interplanetary, sonicity, plurality — listening again as I type this and it is so clear how so many of the conventions of composition in rock, pop, jazz, incidental music, drums, space opera, piccolo elfenreich, even advertising jingles, are in absolute debt to his innovations.

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Skynet v. Writing

Have you seen this chart? https://www.educatorstechnology.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/AI-Research-Tools.pdf

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John Hutnyk @johnhutnyk.bsky.social · 24d

If you are into doom scrolling, here is a free hit that is not quite a bazball of the mind, but it is better than some because of the Al-ban-ese pun, not.

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John Hutnyk @johnhutnyk.bsky.social · 24d

The Prison School in Vietnam: A Course Interpreting Revolutionary Education in the Historical Museums of Ho Chi Minh City

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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the new publisher model piece rates

and the consequences of articles for sale one by one Publishing company advice on how they organise their operations is of course welcome. They seem now to prefer issues with papers from a variety of places on a subject area as opposed to a special issue on one place. I am not sure that is all good as I’ve done several issues that were, erm, ‘sigular focus’, or were on strictly localised region-based them…

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Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions

Educational technology, or ed-tech, including artificial intelligence (AI), continues to become more integrated into teaching and research in higher education, with minimal oversight. The AAUP’s ad ho...

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On the ‘exclusive’: India hasn’t even experienced industrialisation in the first place: Ha-Joon Chang.

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Malinowski is not a god

**** In a perhaps misguided effort to preserve love of writing, enthuse about independent critical mental facility, to “exercise the metaphoric muscle”, as Mick Taussig would say, and just out of sheer Sarah Connerism—this year I set my anthropology classes tasks to include in their final reports that would make their essays also be poetic, creative, and not mere information.

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John Hutnyk @johnhutnyk.bsky.social · Dec 3

Malinowski is not a god

In a perhaps misguided effort to preserve love of writing, enthuse about independent critical mental facility, to "exercise the metaphoric muscle", as Mick Taussig would say, and just out of sheer Sarah Connerism—this year I set my anthropology classes tasks to include in…

Malinowski is not a god

In a perhaps misguided effort to preserve love of writing, enthuse about independent critical mental facility, to "exercise the metaphoric muscle", as Mick Taussig would say, and just out of sheer Sarah Connerism—this year I set my anthropology classes tasks to include in their final reports that would make their essays also be poetic, creative, and not mere information. Holding Celeste Olalquiaga's beautiful book "The Artificial Kingdom" aloft, I waxed enthusiastic about describing things in the wondrous power of your own word hoard (and horde).

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John Hutnyk @johnhutnyk.bsky.social · Dec 3

Prison School

Abstract: This paper considers a course on critical thinking in Vietnam with a case study focus on historical prisons as they are represented in museums. Reflections on prison narratives in history and literature, texts, film excerpts and museum visits were used in classes for…

Prison School

Abstract: This paper considers a course on critical thinking in Vietnam with a case study focus on historical prisons as they are represented in museums. Reflections on prison narratives in history and literature, texts, film excerpts and museum visits were used in classes for students of anthropology and sociology. In Ho Chi Minh City (hereafter HCMC), a series of museums tell versions of the wider colonial and military story, and in part turn that story into one of pedagogical resistance that students today study as history.

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John Hutnyk @johnhutnyk.bsky.social · Nov 27

Keith Hart on Fieldwork advice

I interviewed the much missed Keith Hart about a half dozen times across the last 30 or so years, each time planning to do something with it but never ale to really tie down the project - one on Don Quixote in the mid 1990s; an interview in Manchester, so 1997…

Keith Hart on Fieldwork advice

I interviewed the much missed Keith Hart about a half dozen times across the last 30 or so years, each time planning to do something with it but never ale to really tie down the project - one on Don Quixote in the mid 1990s; an interview in Manchester, so 1997 perhaps, about his time as advisor for the ill-fated Bouganvile–Riotinto—PNG love triangle; another time in London on Kant/Marx; and then via email some years later on Fieldwork stories.

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John Hutnyk @johnhutnyk.bsky.social · Nov 27

Some old reviews and commentaries

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Mela: festival scenes in South Asian cinema

This article examines a recurrent film motif across a number of South Asian films, mostly called Mela. It also offers some observations on melas, actual and allegorical, as represented in films but...

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John Hutnyk @johnhutnyk.bsky.social · Nov 21

Circumlocution advice.

Learning peace and acceptance in the toleration-negotiation-circulation saga. I bought a book online from an organisation in the Czech Republic and it arrived at my house a week later - free of postage. Emboldened by this, I ordered a book on the 17th Century travels of…

Circumlocution advice.

Learning peace and acceptance in the toleration-negotiation-circulation saga. I bought a book online from an organisation in the Czech Republic and it arrived at my house a week later - free of postage. Emboldened by this, I ordered a book on the 17th Century travels of William Dampier from a bookstore in Adelaide and they sent it via Australia Post, for an extortionate 600k postage for a 200k book.

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John Hutnyk @johnhutnyk.bsky.social · Nov 17

Studying Tourism means going to have a look for yourself. Tourism Recreation Research article into book…

Anyone who wants this should DM me for a copy of the journal version.

Studying Tourism means going to have a look for yourself. Tourism Recreation Research article into book…

Anyone who wants this should DM me for a copy of the journal version.

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John Hutnyk @johnhutnyk.bsky.social · Nov 15

lost note on peninsulas and islands

This is from the summer of 2025—attendance at two conferences, one Inter Asia Cultural Studies, the other on Islands at Jeju. A squib commentary, well organised events, notable for much more than I could scribble down at the time. Continental thinking of…

lost note on peninsulas and islands

This is from the summer of 2025—attendance at two conferences, one Inter Asia Cultural Studies, the other on Islands at Jeju. A squib commentary, well organised events, notable for much more than I could scribble down at the time. Continental thinking of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies conference was followed by the archipelagic and oceanic thinking of Critical Island Studies. Was there a contrast between a thinking of shared work between nations, cities or regions and thinking that foregrounds peripheries and isolation, even persecution of minorities?

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