The magazine is here: TheInvisibleFinger

In this year his most famous student sported only yet some bumfluff, but the future great beard was already reading much and "dilligent", and his teacher... well so much was set out for the future here: translating almost all of the Bard, meeting with Hörner, teaching on Homer, promoting Quixote, chatting elephants, juggernauts, India/EIC-hatreds, with GWFH as 'the enemy camp', cosmopolitainism, university politics, criticism and more.

Hasn’t the sheer abundance of chit-chat made criticism, and even journalism you pay for, obsolete? Articles that would bug most people aren’t even read because something else more accessible, shorter, free, and less threatening, commandeers attention. Writing in an amusement park that has been expended across the entire city, the entire country, the earth, the galaxy, the universe (as we once filled in our schoolbooks).

The ISSH2026 confernce proceedings – check it out. …an amazing collection of 45 papers for the fourth International Conference on Innovation in the Social Sciences and Humanities at Ton…

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 a…

email me for a copy of (almost) any of these… John Hutnyk PublicationsDownload

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Laugh out loud passage in Rosa Luxemburg’s letter of April 2 2011 to Kostya Zetkin (Clara’s son) about Lenin’s visits and the sharp dialectical criticism of Lenin by Mimi the cat.…

Revolution is the beat that drums through this electrifying story about the landmark case against the Bradford 12.

From the ever useful Marx/Engels Internet Archive Marx Biography Biographical Notes on Marx’s Literary Interestsby Eleanor Marx-AvelingAbstractSource: Marx Engels On Literature and Art, Progress Publishers, 1976;Transcribed: by Andy Blunden. And so many and many a year later Marx told stories to his children. To my sisters — I was then too small — he told tales as they went for walks, and these tales were measured by miles not chapters.

Reminded of this from late last year and wonder if the algorithm throws up skynet referenced in late August because anniversaries still matter? Still? OK, happy 29th. Just keep writing against the machine: ... From Dec 2025 Repost: Have you seen this chart? www.educatorstechnology.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/AI-Research-Tools.pdf Useful for some perhaps, but I think horrible too. Especially its promotion of the SciSpace app that will read documents for you and will summarise and explain concepts.

Have you seen this chart?

A child reads a book at a sinkhole-turned library in Wuyuan County, east China’s Jiangxi Province on Aug. 26, 2026. A special sinkhole-turned library opened to the public recently in Wuyuan C…

Published in South East Asia Research (Vol. 34, No. 2, 2026)

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

Edited by Claire - but if you need the pdfs and cannot get them thoguth 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 perish produces so much papto wade through. Some historians of note still deserve your time.

Thirty years of this book. Reminded today that it's circa 700 rupees from Bloomsbury India if you like that sort of thing (real life copies I mean):

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 Spiv…

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 does not do it justice - the author, Jeremy Braddock, is Professor of English at Cornell University):

The anthropological project, tired and exhausted after years searching for ‘methodological absolution’, remains mired in a spiral of self-doubt and self-indulgent ‘crisis’. Anthropological teaching continues the very complicities that a self-critical reflexivity professed to avoid. Cooption and incorporation, even at the best of times. This essay asks just what would break the cycle of ‘suicidal rejoicing’ for an ‘end of anthropology’ that never comes, that continues to be taught anew, over and over?

Note to self. A debate could be had as to whether the imputation of a local slave trading regime is imposed or copied from outside. No less than the Philippines’ national hero José Rizal had annotated an edition of Antonio de Morga, in which Morga explains that the Spanish, 100 years earlier than his writing in 1602, had effectively made space for the Mindanao and Sebu Mohammadans to begin raids on the…

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “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. But its most spectacular treasures date from a much later period of English conquest and appropriation: Powis is simply awash with loot from India, room after room of imperial plunder, extracted by the East India Company in the 18th century.

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 Bourgeoi…

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 ... and if you like your third cinema to hit hard, then look out for this next one - REBELLION. About th Bradford 12 struggle an its huge importance in law and as an example of how to fight.

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, pastoralising advocacy and brokerage. In contemporary anthropologies—for example such as the anthropology of tourism when it becomes too close to tourism management studies—we can see clearly that heritage still has has some part to play in hesitations to take up such a gate-keeping role, yet it is undeniably still there and to overstate the naivety of local communities is a mistake.