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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.

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...

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).

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.

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.

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...

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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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?

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.

1852 From the untroduction to The Literary Life of FvS Three brothers:

BOOK REVIEW: Ghassan Kanafani’s History Lessons 31 October 2025 by Jay Murphy Ghassan Kanafani, The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine, Background, Details, Analysis, translated by Hazem Jamjoum, with an introduction by Layan Sima Fuleihan and an afterword by Maher Charif (1804 Books, New York, 2023) Ghassan Kanafani, On Zionist Literature, translated by Mahmoud Najib (Liberated Texts/Ebb Books, Oxford, 2022)

There seems too little focus of how the loss of writing skills though the convenience of AI as writing flounders under the ever urgent need for results, the ability to learn from close slow reading versus demand to deliver any response at all, the wherewithal of critical acumen, destroyed by and at scale, all leading to vast limitations in what Bernard Stiegler called the battle for knowledge... ProletarianisationDownload

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