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POLITICS Fiction Uncategorized

Larry the cat

Dave the Rave has all the moves. Verily, is he the Lord of the Dance. Yet no one or their cat noticed the sky turning black upon his return. Only I saw the devil on his back as he leads us towards post-Brexit temptation. But something is afoot. Mark my words. These tea-guzzling-biscuit-gobbling Fat Cats…

ByMiranda Husain

POLITICS Uncategorized

Your Privileges Are Not Universal

Stencilled in red on the walls of Santiago, Chile is a statement of fact: ‘your privileges are not universal’ (tus privilegios no son universales). This is a factual declaration because the privileges of power and property are not shared across the gaping class divide. Consider the fact that before the pandemic struck last year, over…

ByVijay Prashad

INTERVIEWS Uncategorized

‘The Artist is Part of the Class’: Mike Leigh in Conversation with Qalandar Bux Memon

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…

Philosophy Uncategorized

“He Has Lit a Funeral Pyre in Everyone’s Home”

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…

Philosophy Uncategorized

Why “Philosophy-World-Democracy” matters? Vital Emergence of a New Beginning

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”,…

ByKamran Baradaran

Philosophy POLITICS Uncategorized

BECOMING VIAGRA AND CHLOROQUINE: Essay on Toxic-Subjectivities

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.…

ByAlessandra Mawu

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,…

ByLalain Baloch

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…

ByBruno Santos N. Dias

ART Fiction Poetry POLITICS

Trading Misery for Death: The Tragic Death of a Sudanese Poet

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…

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.…

BySimon Critchley