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EDITION EIGHT

Art Resistance Community TV Program 1 – 50 mins
JOURNALIST & WAR CORRESPONDENT
Robert Fisk: Public Meeting at Sydney University.

Robert Fisk has been the Middle East correspondent for The Independent newspaper in the UK since 1988. Dr Fisk spoke at Sydney University at the invitation of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. He spoke mainly about the current situation in Iraq. He tells the story of the growing hatred of the West by millions of Muslims, the colonisation process that previously occurred in the Middle East by European powers and the uncanny resemblance between the British 1920’s occupation of Iraq and the current US occupation. Fisk also talks of the West’s continuing support for Israel ’s occupation of Palestinian land and its refusal to implement UN Resolutions.

Actively Radical TV also conducted an interview with Robert Fisk prior to the lecture and this footage is intercut with his lecture.The Fisk talk is also supplemented by Wattan TV montage footage of life under occupation on the West Bank.


Art Resistance Community TV Program 2 – 34 mins
Scotland: Socialism in the Making
A documentary produced in 2003 on the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) and the politics of Scotland. Interviews with Scottish Members of Parliament, Tommy Sheridan, Frances Curren and Caroline Lechie as well as Allan McCoombs (Co-author of “Imagine”) and Matt Preston from the Scottish Socialist Voice.

Voices of Protest - 30 mins
IN PROFILE: a report by Simon Tayler on the BP corporation and its past activites and its current PR cloak of being a “green” corporation. Also on Voices of Protest is a visit to the ARTV VAULT with an 1999 East Timor Solidarity rally and a 2003 Refugee Rights rally. The PALESTINE REPORT with Rebecca Semaan looks at some of the myths regarding Palestinian Refugees.

Community Focus - 30 mins
In the studio for this edition of Community Focus is Craig Bulley – radio disc jockey for Workers Radio Sydney. Workers Radio Sydney is a radio program broadcast on Radio Skid Row, and plays an integral role in the fight against the changes to the Industrial Relations laws by keeping the community informed of union activities throughout the state and raises the real issues facing working people today.

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The Golden Hind

From our good friends at "Avast Ye Applications":

Seán Mac Mathúna writes: "There are four statues on the front of Deptford's old town hall in NewCross Road. Three of them are connected with slavery in the West Indies: Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake and Oliver Cromwell. In 1652, Cromwell had been a regular visitor to Deptford to oversee the building of two ships The James and The Diamond - built solely it seems, for expeditions to the Caribbean aimed at displacing Spanish power in the region. Maurice Thomson, a resident of the Manor House at Lee ... was said to have been a personal friend of Cromwell's and involved in these expeditions. They were part of a network of businessmen interested in the vast wealth that could be derived from the sugar/slave trade."

http://www.fantompowa.net/Flame/blackheath_slavery.htm

and from the endearingly entitled 'Enchanted learning' site...:

"Sir Francis Drake (1545-1596) was a British explorer, slave-trader,privateer (a pirate working for a government) in the service ofEngland, mayor of Plymouth, England, and naval officer (he was anAdmiral)."

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/d/drake.shtml
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Zizek & Badiou

Recent talks (sound files) by Zizek (against Laclau's populism) and by Badiou on the 'beyond' of classical revolutionary politics:

http://blog.urbanomic.com/num/archives/2005/11/badiouzizek_liv.html

Weebls Stuff - Special Edition

Weebls Stuff - Special Edition

Antifa Portal Network

Antifa Portal Network


... new website for the refined militant anti-fascist. It has the best
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Almost 100 artists..Street Troopers, Oppressed, Blood For Blood,
Fate2Hate, Blaggers ITA, Those Unknown, Los Fastidios, Symarip, The
Redskins, Banda Bassotti, Brigada Flores Magon, Reazione, etc, etc,
etc...

http://www.antifa-portal.net/

(formerly known as http://antifa.servebeer.com/)

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Google Mail - Land Mines A Love Story wins Best Documentary at the AFI Awards!

Land Mines – A Love Story by the acclaimed Australian director Dennis O’Rourke, has just won the award for ‘Best Documentary’ at the prestigious 2005 Australian Film Institute Awards! The film is a compelling anti-war film set in Afghanistan, a country that has become synonymous with conflict. It is also a story of romance and a celebration of life, hope and love.

Land Mines – A Love Story is now available on DVD through Ronin Films. If you are interested in screening the film or purchasing a DVD copy of the film please contact Ronin Films:

Email: orders@roninfilms.com.au

Phone on: +61 2 6248 0851

Or visit the direct link on Ronin Film’s website: http://www.roninfilms.com.au/video/1887017/0/2411726459.html

Please also visit the official Land Mines – A Love Story website and help spread the word about the film by signing up to our mailing list or participating in grassroots activities: www.landmines-a-love-story.comhttp://www.landmines-a-love-story.com/grassroots.html

Crang

Mike Crang has been consistently sharp, so I like his stuff... He writes:

"However, we also need to inject some dynamism here – the tourist is not just someone who has a particular cultural baggage or who responds to a given culture of a destination. These two elements are mutually constituting, and from this it follows that both place and person may change, and change the other. For instance, rumours help shape expectations of visitors (Hutnyk, 1996; O'Hara, 2001) circulating, not just in a one-way street from marketers to audience, but among tourists, as in Hutnyk’s description of ‘the endless flow of indo-babble’ (p. 145) about stories told about going to India, having been to India, and so forth."

from: Crang, Dr Michael (2004) Cultural geographies of tourism, in Lew, Alan and Hall, C Michael and Williams, Allan, Eds. A companion to tourism, pages 74-84. Blackwell.
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A Johnson minds his own business

Meant to put this up days ago since I got it from Carrie.

Watch William S. Burroughs Thanksgiving Prayer, November 28, 1986 (courtesy of Gus Van Sant):

http://dvblog.org/movies/09_05/thanksgiving_prayer.mov

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Cristobel's band Los Muebles (The Furniture),

"A few weeks a go we started a campaign called "an ass for Los Muebles" (Un
culo para Los Muebles), in order to created an image for our first album."

Malasya

The Future has already come true

Spend 8 minutes looking at this...

http://epic.lightover.com/

Except for the last minute, where I reckon they shouldn't have bothered with the twee 'perhaps there was another way' routine - it was better just as a scary future pod.

Powered by Mieke.

City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty

by Ananya Roy

Uni of Minnesota Press.

Roy she was paralysed by "Rumour", but went on to write her book anyway. Some pics too, and discussion of New Communism. "Roy shows how urban developmentalism, in its populist guise, reproduces the relations of masculinist patronage, and, in its entrepreneurial guise, seeks to reclaim a bourgeois Calcutta, gentlemanly in its nostalgias".
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Maoists views on the French Intifada.

Sketchy Thoughts: The Decision to Impose Curfews and the Prefects
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dora the explorer

dora the explorer hits the bustling metropolis of samut prakarn

http://dorsinthailand.blogdrive.com/

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Mieke's Freedom and Stuff.

So maybe finally I taught someone something about using these new fandangled machines (hardly anything, but you can now get RSS feeds on this TMSI) .

I like the Freedom and Stuff routines..

and quotes like:
"thus: coldplay is all of radiohead's worst songs rolled into one."
and
"either way, i'd have a field day re- staging my rants about the lack of originality of the likes of tolkien, who's fans like to claim it's like totally the most original story line ever and have apparently missed humanity's narrative schtick about the battle between good and evil.fantasy is only for those severely lacking in it".

So, worth a visit, with RSS feed, to - http://andthemiekeshallinherit.blogspot.com/
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Paganopoulos on Keith Hart

When Weber Met Durkheim: The Visions of Keith Hart for a ‘New World Society’ as Prophecy of a New Order’

By Michelangelo Paganopoulos

"...Hart’s above reading of ‘anthropology’ as a moral, and therefore, religious force has been severely criticized in the past as ‘imperialist’, allegedly following the political neo-liberal agenda of the only dominant power, the US. Hutnyk has repeatedly underlined the problem of representation in anthropology (1996, 2004) in a humorous and bitter way. Anthropology is based on travelling, and Hutnyk has highlighted the violence caused on a local level from colonialism to tourism:

“Asking if the violence of slavery was TRAVEL does at least raise questions about the violences underlying all travel, including that which enables ethnographic projects, such as the colonial power that makes the world safe for ethnographers and tourists” (Hutnyk, 2004: 23).

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For Hart, the above bitter but honest readings of anthropology as a discipline point to the “crisis of the intellectuals” (Hart, 2004:14-7)..."


http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:Iyp0qYdpAhcJ:www.thememorybank.co.uk/members/Pagan/The%2520Prophecy%2520of%2520Keith%2520Hart.doc+hart+Hutnyk+&hl=en
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Why I love Spivak

Not only is "Critique of Postcolonial Reason" a great book (for teaching, for method, for insight), but Gayatri is generous and committed, and she liked my rumour book:

'A case in point would be John Hutnyk’s brilliant book "The Rumour of Calcutta"...'

in Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty "Harlem" Social Text - 81 (Volume 22, Number 4), Winter 2004, pp. 113-139 Duke University Press
you need Athens access to get the whole thing..
http://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/access.cgi?uri=/journals/social_text/v022/22.4spivak.html&session=8944196
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New Cross and Rotherhithe

Bob from Brockley writes:
"New Cross and Rotherhithe
From Goldsmiths blogger, John Hutnyk, a nice post on Prangsta in New Cross.From one of the most beautiful blogs on the web, a good place for a cup of tea and a think, a post on H's Cafe, Neptune Street. (If you like this, check out sibling blog eggbaconchipsandbeans.)
Tag: sarf london
posted by bob at 4:04 PM "
[JH - clearly this is a reciprocal cross referencing love in. Check out Bob's comments on the 'cold' Chomsky (inc.). Ha, rattle the cages of the captive Gods (you know where all that MIT funding comes from don't you Noam?)]

The Akha heritage Foundation

"Today, I'd like to present excerpts from a
thought-provoking book by John Hutnyk, entitled 'The
Rumour of Calcutta: tourism, charity and the poverty
of representation'. The book was already published in
1996, and some of you may remember that I mailed out a
summary at the time when tourism NGOs began to discuss
as to how to apply the 'fair trade' concept in
tourism. I'm now sharing this piece with you again
because I believe it is an excellent and highly
opportune contribution to the current debate on
tourism and poverty alleviation.

Yours truly,
Anita Pleumarom
Tourism Investigation & Monitoring Team (tim-team)"
http://www.akha.org/content-100.html
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Bob from Brockley

Bob from Brockley writes: "On the topic of Left Curve, issue 23 carries a poem by the great poet Ken Smith, who has sadly since left this earth. I also recommend this interview with Agnes Heller and this enjoyably ultra-leftist attack by John Hutnyk on the happily now defunct band Kula Shaker ." Thanks Bob.

Steve Vise

Hello My Darling Patpong Road: This is video footage of part of Steev's set at the Big Sur Experimental Music Festival, May 19, 2001. This clip shows the premiere of this performance piece. The piece was inspired by two books: Hello My Big Big Honey: Love Letters to Bangkok Bar Girls and Their Revealing Interviews by Dave Walker and Richard Ehrlich, and Critique of Exotica, by John Hutnyk.
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Sigur Ros concert in Portland...

Jen Dawson reviews Sigur Ros concert in Portland... another CCS graduate makes good...
http://www.nonstarvingartists.com/Columns/jdawson/column.2005-10-02.9757594952
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Hybridity - Elements of a Theory

Hybridity - Elements of a Theory - Roger Clarke.

http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/SOS/HAHTh0505.html

Pages Prepared as Background Information for an Invited Presentation to the Ars Electronica 2005 Symposium on Hybrid - Living in Paradox, Linz, Austria, 2-3 September 2005

"In both cases, over time, assimilation occurs, and both the newcomer and the host adapt, resulting in one or more hybrid cultural forms; and in both cases cultural and perhaps authority relationships remain with the newcomer's origins, and perhaps with other outposts, resulting in diaspora, and hence additional sources of cross-and retro-fertilisation (e.g. Kalra V., Kahlon R.K. & Hutnyk J. (2005) 'Diaspora and Hybridity' Sage, September 2005)."

Adventures of the Multitude:

Adventures of the Multitude:
Response of the Authors

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri

Michael Hardt and Toni Negri's reply to the Rethinking marxism issue on Empire...
"...By privileging the hegemonic forms and figures of labor at the center of the productive machine, these authors continue, we are still using a Eurocentric model of civilization. Rabasa, Moore, and Hutnyk are among those who raise this critique of both immaterial labor and the Eurocentrism that this implies. This is an important issue..."

RETHINKING MARXISM Volumie 13, Number 3/4 (Fall/Winter 2001)

New internationalist Rumour Notice

The Rumour of Calcutta:
Tourism, Charity and the Poverty of Representation

'.... John Hutnyk, in his fascinating study of Western interpretations of Calcutta, attempts to excavate the city from under the layers of accreted prejudices. He shows convincingly how, even before the traveller arrives, the reputation of Calcutta has laid down a sediment of ideas that acts as a modifier on subsequent experiences....'

Gane insults all. Needs a slap.

In his review of my "Bad Marxism", Mike Gane says students won't know who Mao was or what the Soviets were! Insulting waste of space he is, and even if it were true, it would be his asteroid-dwelling, wire-headed, three-toed trogg fault for not being a better teacher.
Anyway, check it out:
PDF Book Review: Bad Marxism: Capitalism and Cultural StudiesGane European Journal of Communication.2005; 20: 407-410
http://ejc.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/20/3/407.pdf
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Utopianism and its discontents - Marcus Breen

A piece of slime from Marcus Beem. My second worst review ever. And my reply, which the journal was kind enough to include in the same issue. You complete and utter wonker, Breen.

Fashioning ethnicities

If you have Sage electro access, check out Claire Dwyer and Philip Crang 2002 “Fashioning ethnicities: the commercial spaces of multiculture”, Ethnicities, 2(3): 410-30 ()

New Worker - Review of Bad Marxism (ouch!)

From: New Worker Online, Thursday, September 09, 2004
Worker Review & Diary - 10/9/2004
REVIEW by Ray Jones

JH review of Tariq Mehmood, 'While there is light',

Weekly Worker 512 Thursday January 22 2004
'Face up to the fight' - by John Hutnyk Review of:
Tariq Mehmood, 'While there is light', Manchester, 2003, Comma Press, pp220, ｣7.95

Third World Network

Third World Network excerpts latter parts of The Rumour of Calcutta.

Richard Smith - Review of Critique of Exotica

Richard Smith - Review of Critique of Exotica
In Intensities: Journal of Cult Media - issue 3.

"John Hutnyk has written a significant work, one that everyone working in the area of contemporary cultural studies needs to engage with. He deals with the central issues of hybridity and authenticity in the context of the appropriation of diverse cultural forms (‘Exotica’) within the global cultural industries by key popular cultural stars. At the heart of the book is a personal commitment to a form of radical politics..."

Ghadar - Culture Move: On Asian Dub Foundation

Culture Move: On Asian Dub Foundation by John Hutnyk
Ghadar: A Publication of the Forum of Indian Leftists
Volume 4: Number 1, May 1 2000

Vijay Prashad review of Rumour of Calcutta

In Light of Calcutta by Vijay Prashad
The Kathmandu Post Review of Books
30 November, 1997Vol. 2, No. 8

"John Hutnyk's book does not tell us of the visions of the city among its long-term inhabitants. His book introduces the people who travel to South Asia on a budget, mostly from North America, Europe and Australia. 'Budget travellers' come not to bask in the glory of the Raj, but to explore the underbelly of Asia and to do some volunteer work as a means to assuage their guilt or redeem themselves. Despite their best motives, Hutnyk explains, these travellers do not question how they see the city. They have heard the 'rumour of Calcutta, the imagery by which the city is known'..."

Vijay Prashad

Mother Teresa: A Communist View by Vijay Prashad
This article was first published in September 1997 in Political
Affairs, the journal of the Communist Party USA.

Steve Wright

"Pondering Information and Communication in Contemporary Anti-Capitalist Movements" From The Commoner. July 2001.

Razor-wire Imperialism

Weekly Worker 489 Thursday July 17 2003
Razor-wire Imperialism
From Guantanamo to Kumingting to Campsfield, detention without trial is used to divide and rule. John Hutnyk calls for an international working class response...
http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/489/detention.html

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KWark review of Rumour of Calcutta

Against Mother Theresa

John Hutnyk's Rumour of Calcutta, reviewed byMcKenzie Wark
Wednesday, 10 September 1997

dead link above, but republished HERE.
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Clarissa Lee

Steve Shaviro

The Pinocchio Theory never lies.

Jodi Dean

Cultural studies, political comment and other curios from the USA
http://jdeanicite.typepad.com/i_cite/academe/index.html