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The Oppressed Have No Obligation to Follow the Rules of the Game

“The Oppressed Have No Obligation to Follow the Rules of the Game…” Interview with Ashis Nandy. Prof Ashis Nandy is a well known social thinker and social psychologist based at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. He has been an outspoken critic of science, modernity and secularism. His writings since the…

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(the url is: http://thecriticalattitude.wordpress.com/) Titled after Bertolt Brecht's poem: The Critical Attitude. Bertolt Brecht On the Critical Attitude The critical attitude Strikes many people as unfruitful That is because they find the state Impervious to their criticism But what in this case is an unfruitful attitude Is merely a feeble attitude. Give criticism arms And…

Born Here: Interview with Dam (Hip-Hop group)

DAM is a Palestinian hiphop band comprised of a trio from Lod. Lod is a mixed Arab-Jewish town, about 20 km from Jerusalem. The band members come from a neighbourhood that has a history of drug abuse and violence. They turned to music to be able to articulate, and in doing so, have released two…

Barter Economy at Naked Punch: Bater a Chicken for a Subscription

We are starting to barter at Naked Punch. If you want a copy of NP but don't want/have money or care to use money we are now accepting barter. You may consider bartering a poem you have written, a drawing, a motto, a video, an essay (though we would prefer those that you have…

Two Underdogs and the reconstruction of Gaga

Consuming iconographic material via general media, one is often overwhelmed with the challenge of making meaning within the margins of celebrated personification. Messages are charmingly packaged within voluptuously orange cleavage, chiselled out mega-abdominals, and perpetually kitsch teleshoppery. Indeed, we have heard this neo-Marxist voice countless times. Such a mundane diatribe is not my intention here,…

ByYasushi Tanaka Gutiez

Two Poems: Quetzalcoatl Blues; The Enemy Within

Quetzalcoatl blues (Montevideo, Oct 16th, 2010) I´m like Quetzalcoatl without the feathers A snake that bites Nobody but itself Pleasure machine That gives no pleasure Anymore A trap A lie Chameleon jaws A strategy doomed Since long ago Doomed by the old men Who touch themselves On buses When they sit by Young girls By…

ByVeronica Pamoukaghlian

Creative subversions: a politics beyond representation in the UK

Britain is not at a cross roads: before us there do not lay routes from which to choose, rather there exists space to command, to commandeer. Recent student uprisings are about much more than cuts, they stand against the eviction of democracy from politics and simultaneous eviction of people(s) from public space. The illusionary integrity…

ByCharlotte Lattimer

Naked Punch Statement of Support For Protesters Against ‘Austerity Measures’.

We stand in firm solidarity with those taking action, both nationally and internationally – students, lecturers, workers and anarchists - in the fight against the so-called “austerity measures”. We reject the rhetoric of “austerity” and “sustainability”, which is being used to obscure the ideological character of these cuts: under the guise of ‘harsh, but necessary’ fiscal…

ByZoe Sutherland

UK Students Protest: Report 01.

I arrived at the tail end of the ‘peaceful’ part of the demo outside parliament and made my way pretty much immediately down to Millbank. When I got to the Tory HQ, the people who had broken in and occupied had been removed from the building and a very lively protest was happening outside. I…

ByZoe Sutherland

Poem: No ode to door-to-door strategies

No ode to door-to-door strategies The door-to-door salesmenIn their cheap suits Their evangelist grinHangs from a thread They are too youngAnd haven't been to schoolwith their straw-colored hair And green eyes Their training book And their rehearsed speech Fake leather briefcase Full of free samplesOf something They never heard of Willy Loman And wouldn't know pathos If…

ByVeronica Pamoukaghlian