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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