John Hutnyk
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John Hutnyk
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Political science 31%
Art 30%
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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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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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132nd birth anniversary
132nd birth anniversary
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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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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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The Prison School in Vietnam: A Course Interpreting Revolutionary Education in the Historical Museums of Ho Chi Minh City

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... a case study focus on historical prisons as they are represented in museums ...

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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…
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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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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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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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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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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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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so the dong amount is equal to USD 294,384,993

Writing against Occupation: Palestine and Beyond.

from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (free download): 本書收錄 2019-2025 年發表於「衝突、正義、解殖」(CJD) 的著作,主題涵蓋以色列-巴勒斯坦戰爭、加沙的種族滅絕、巴勒斯坦的殖民結構,以及阿拉伯世界中的社會政治鬥爭歷史。 出版單位:國立陽明交通大學文化研究國際中心 全書開放下載: We are delighted to announce the publication of Writing against…
Writing against Occupation: Palestine and Beyond.
from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (free download): 本書收錄 2019-2025 年發表於「衝突、正義、解殖」(CJD) 的著作,主題涵蓋以色列-巴勒斯坦戰爭、加沙的種族滅絕、巴勒斯坦的殖民結構,以及阿拉伯世界中的社會政治鬥爭歷史。 出版單位:國立陽明交通大學文化研究國際中心 全書開放下載: We are delighted to announce the publication of Writing against Occupation: Palestine and Beyond. This volume compiles a range of writings digitally published on Conflict, Justice, and Decolonization (CJD) between 2019 and 2025. It brings together the voices of those who refuse silence in the face of erasure and injustice—voices that continue to believe in the enduring power of words and intellectual work as acts of resistance.
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So, perhaps my math is wonky, but even google AI says its close - Tell me why we have not started a journal??? [seems like a scam to me, almost like founding a bank]

They have 22 issues a year and about 400 articles per issue. Given each article is charging each author about 79 million per article, and they have 98,204 articles since 2009, that is Ð7,758,116,000,000 potentially. OK, maybe their charge went up, but they are thriving....

In an article I reviewed for someone today, AI had hallucinated a bunch of references. Yes, bad, an I said so, but the links were especially to the journal Sustainability, and I spent some time looking at that journal's website. Can someone check this for me? See next comment...

Keith Hart 6th November 2025 & Paolo Virno on 7th November, 2025.
Keith Hart 6th November 2025 & Paolo Virno on 7th November, 2025.
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Keith Hart 6th November & Paolo Virno on 7th November. Death is sad, but I imagine them plotting strategies on storming heaven and would love to read their text on that. Instead I will read books from them on my shelves, and honour their sustained engagement. Not a proper tribute, but "Red Salute".