John Hutnyk is Professor and Academic Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, author of a number of books including The Rumour of Calcutta: Tourism, Charity and the Poverty of Representation (1996 Zed); Critique of Exotica: Music, Politics and the Culture Industry (2000 Pluto Press); Bad Marxism: Capitalism and Cultural Studies (2004 Pluto), and co-authored with Virinder Kalra and Raminder Kaur: Diaspora and Hybridity (2005 Sage). Editor of several volumes of essays, including Dis-Orienting Rhythms: the Politics of the New Asian Dance Music (1996 Zed, co ed with Sharma and Sharma); editions of the journals ‘Theory, Culture and Society’ and ‘Post-colonial Studies’; and of a festschrift for Klaus Peter Koepping called “Celebrating Transgression” (2006 Berghahn, co-ed with Ursula Rao). Writes irregular prose at http://hutnyk.wordpress.com.