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The Violent State
Philosophy POLITICS
The Violent State
Whose headless body is this Whose scarlet shroud Whose torn and wounded cloak Whose broken voice? (1) I Meditations on violence  The macho encounter between Simon Critchley and Slavoj Zizek over competing ethics of violence staged in the recent Naked Punch Supplement left me with the distinct feeling that violence is too important a matter…
Human Beings and (Other) Animals
Philosophy
Human Beings and (Other) Animals
Can philosophy make room for animals? Perhaps that is the only question I want to ask in this paper. My worry is that the language of philosophy has kept us in a cage as far as animals are concerned. Philosophy thinks it knows how to keep animals out, and it thinks that if we let…
LEARN TO LIVE WITHOUT MASTERS.
Philosophy POLITICS
LEARN TO LIVE WITHOUT MASTERS.
AN INTERVIEW WITH SLAVOJ zIZEK BY OSCAR GUARDIOLA-RIVERA London, November-December 2007 1. GETTING RID OF THE BIG OTHER. OGR: It seems as if, in the end, your philosophical and political project is to break through the various impasses of extrinsic vs. intrinsic accounts of everything, from cinema to science and politics, without playing to the…
Janam’s Commitments
ART POLITICS
Janam’s Commitments
On January 4, 1989, Jana Natya Manch (Janam) convened at Jhandapur village, on the outskirts of Delhi, to complete an interrupted play. Three days before, Janam began to perform their play Halla Bol in support of Ramanand Jha's campaign for the Ghaziabad municipal elections. Jha was backed by the Centre for Indian Trade Unions (CITU), the federation…
Scoundrel times: Paris, Baghdad, Lahore…Interview with TARIQ ALI
INTERVIEWS
Scoundrel times: Paris, Baghdad, Lahore…Interview with TARIQ ALI
Qalandar Bux Memon and Jacopo Moroni in conversation with Tariq Ali: Jacopo Moroni – Mr. Ali, we would like to begin by concentrating on the recent events in the French banlieues. First of all, it seems undeniable that the events are of fundamental importance for the future political and socio-cultural European landscape, forcing us to grasp for a theoretical understanding…
Israel’s Bankrupt Politics
POLITICS
Israel’s Bankrupt Politics
To this historian of empire, the Israeli onslaught on the captive Palestinians of Gaza strikingly recalls the tactics of colonial counterinsurgency, as recent research by Laleh Khalili at SOAS underlines. Attempting to crush nationalist resistance, the British surrounded civilian populations with barbed wire during the Southern African War, 1899-1902. Aiming to destroy Algerian nationalism, the…
POLITICS
THE LAWYERS AND THE OLD GRANITE BLOCK
First Historical Note by way of Prologue 'Those who sow should eat' [Jo kheray so khai] - this was the slogan upon which the radical and revered Sufi poet Shah Inayat set up, in the 18th century, an agrarian commune.  Shah Inayat was born in Multan; in youth he affiliated himself with the Qadiriya…
Gayatri Spivak, Interviwed by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
INTERVIEWS
Gayatri Spivak, Interviwed by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera: At this point in your life, in your career, how would you cast yourself? Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: I have always had great difficulty casting myself, surely it is others who cast me. I think what I really do is teach. I don’t ever have a sense that I do anything other than teach. I…
POLITICS
Sri Lanka’s Common Future by Pradeep Jeganathan
“Every prospect pleases, but only man is vile” goes the racist, colonial refrain, which is still the dominant ‘international’ framing of ‘news’ of the coveted pearl that seems to hang from India’s ear. In this colonial story a ‘model colony’ become a ‘troubled paradise’ after the British left it kindly and quietly. In the hands…