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Without a Word, Without a Tear: Two Poems
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,…
Guayaquil: Before and during the Pandemic
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…
Notes On Suicide
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.…
The Marvelous Births of Jean-Luc Nancy
Happy birthday to you my dearest Jean-Luc! I do not know the name of my relation to you as it evades capture while its births never cease to surprise me. Friend, yes, because it is a word, like “being”, that is able to gather nearly every relationship and occasion. In the beginning I was a…
“Sonic Opposition to the Powers That Be” Part-I: Asian Dub Foundation (ADF)’s John Pandit in conversation with NoorAfshan Mirza.
John Pandit/Aka Pandit G of Asian Dub Foundation (ADF) in conversation with NoorAfshan Mirza. Part I. NoorAfshan Mirza: My first question is about the way you have tried to work with the community to produce music. What has been your process? And what would you say, have been its successes and failures?  John Pandit: Well, yeah. My…