"The big project of centre-right and centre-left becomes on how to gain the consent of the ruled for what is being done to them, and so you see a process where democracy instead becomes what I like to describe as democratism"

Tariq Ali - Naked Punch 06

Naked Punch 08

Naked Punch 08 features an extensive special Dossier on Lebanese Contemporary Art composed of three essay by Lebanese artists and thinkers and a 16-pages color spread. Also in the issue an extensive special on contemporary Latin American Politics made of six essays by 'organic intellectuals' from the Latin American continent. Further, Naked Punch 08 features a dialogue with post-colonial thinker Gayatri Spivak; an essay by renown historian 'from below' Marcus Rediker; Simon Critchley's Fragments, Naomi Green's piece on Pasolini; poetry by various authors.

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Contents -

Fragments of a Prologue

Qalandar Bux Memon, Simon Critchley, Nadim Samman.

Essays

Marcus Rediker
Thomas Clarkson and History From Below
Naomi Green
Criticism as Autobiography: Pier Paolo Pasolini on E.M. Forster's Maurice

Dialogues

Ernesto Laclau
The Latin American Turn

Gayatri Spivak
In Conversation With...

Lebanese Contemporary Art Dossier

Walid Sadeek, Jalal Toufic, and various authors.

The Latin American Turn

Ernesto Laclau
The Latin American Turn

SITUATIONS

Fernando Garces
Territorial Order, Natural Resources and the Constituent Assembly in Bolivia: Towards a Plurinational state?
Fernando Coronil
State and Nation During the Coup Against Chavez
Orlando Fals Borda
Reinforcing Colombia's New Alternative Pole
Ramon Grosfoguel and Nelson Maldonado-Torres
Latinos(as) Migrants and the Decolonization of the US Empire

POTENTIALITIES

Enrique Dussel
The People, the Popular and 'Populism'
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
The Most Sublime of Fetishists

Poetry
Qalandar Bux Memon
Bruce Bond
Graham Foust
Ed Skoog
Stuart Dischell

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