Mike Leigh talks to Qalandar Bux Memon about film-language and class, film-making as an artistic process, acting, editing, and the politics of representation.
Qalandar Bux Memon: So, I had a question about the…
Mike Leigh: Which films of mine have you seen?
QBM: I've seen... I've seen a few. I was in Lahore and I…
Dear Kamran Baradaran,
Your question is complex—“what does it mean to be a philosopher in the middle of a pandemic in India”.
Philosopher has no adjective—national, linguistic, and even of schools. In your question “the pan” or “the whole“ of the “pandemic” (what has befallen the whole) speaks of that which exceeds adjectives such as…
There is a new “It” journal—Philosophy World Democracy. It has all the ingredients which make a great journal and a historic moment in philosophy as the “Ends of Man” conference organised by Jacques Derrida, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and Jean-Luc Nancy did in 1980. In fact, Philosophy World Democracy can be traced to that event called “Ends of Man”,…
CARTOGRAPHY OF VULNERABILITY
If we really think about vulnerability during the pandemic period of COVID-19, we should say that this feeling is widespread. Every single person feels vulnerable to the virus. It is a sort of becoming trans* of the world. However, it is necessary to sketch out a cartography of vulnerability in Latin America.…
Quest for love
O Refreshing rain!
Douse the fire within my soul.
Caress my wounds,
Like the sword that slithers over my lover’s neck.
Replenish the forsaken garden within my chest,
Once besieged by a grotesque guest.
Bury thorns in my flesh,
Let them grow veins for ichor yet some blood.
Make my body agate,…
Ecuador is currently experiencing a fragile situation with the COVID-19 pandemic. It is among the countries which are affected the most by COVID-19 and thus the numbers of people who have died reached the mark of 3.621 at the beginning of June [1]. It was in early April, however, that the country attracted the attention…
Translations and a tribute to a young Sudanese poet who drowned, last week, in the Mediterranean Sea:
A young Sudanese poet’s prediction of his fate came true last week when he drowned in the Mediterranean.
Abdel Wahab Yousif, better known as Latinos, died when a rubber boat packed with African immigrants sank into the sea…
Two years after Jean Améry’s On Suicide was published in 1976, the author took an overdose of sleeping pills. He was 65. In 1960, some eighteen years after Albert Camus had raised and – so he thought – resolved the question of suicide in The Myth of Sisyphus, he was killed in a car accident.…
Here are some things that I haven’t been able to deny, when I check in with myself;
I was lying in bed unable to sleep
And I remembered
The intro of this song
My friend DJ Zakham used to play at an underground party,
called Mutiny in New York City;
“AZADI KIS NEY LA-KAR DI HY?”…