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INTERVIEWS Philosophy POLITICS

Costas Douzinas on People to People Solidarity, the Rise of the Right-Wing in Europe, Syriza In Power, and Refugees and the EU.

Qalandar Bux Memon: Can you please talk about the spaces in Greece that opened up, started by the people who were trying to support and help the refugees and by refugees? Costas Douzinas: Yeah, the solidarity centers - which flourished in the last few years. They were helped by, not so much by the government,…

ByCostas Douzinas

INTERVIEWS POLITICS

Algeria’s Second Revolution: An Interview With Amel Ouaissa

Naked Punch Talks To Sociologist Amel Ouaissa About Her Experience As An Algerian Living In The Diaspora And Her Take On The Hirak. Qalandar Bux Memon: Let us begin with questions regarding the movement or the protests themselves. What was your experience participating in these protests? Why did you and others protest? What were the…

Poetry POLITICS

TRYING TIMES

Dear Friends and comrades We are going through trying times. Humanity is on trial. This is the time when the worst and the best in us comes out in ways that we could not have imagined in normal times. We are used to saying ‘the personal is political’. Now the ‘social is personal’, so much…

ByIssa G. Shivji

Poetry POLITICS

Little Things I Miss

Little things I miss I miss laughter. I miss meeting and greeting people in the street. I miss my friends at Kijiweni. I miss the incessant chatter of baraza and utani between Yanga and Simba. And the argument among wazee of who is older than whom. I miss children in their uniforms walking to school.…

ByIssa G. Shivji

INTERVIEWS POLITICS

On Solidarity between Communities of Color in “Justice for George Floyd” Protests: Interview with Alia Jeraj.

Singer, writer and educator Alia Jeraj talks to Naked Punch Review about her observations, as a resident of the Twin Cities, Minnesota and a member of the South Asian American community, regarding the on-going protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd. She discusses the goals of the protest movement, the violence seen during the…

Philosophy POLITICS

THE POSTNORMAL PERFECT STORM PART 3

THE COVID CHRONICLES: THE POSTNORMAL PERFECT STORM - IN THREE PARTS PART 3: SCENARIOS FOR COVID-19 We analysed the postnormal characteristics and implications of Covid-19 crisis in the previous two parts of our exposition and devote Part 3 to an exploration of how the global Covid-19 pandemic might evolve in the future. We explore just…

ByJordi Serra del Pino

The Endogenous Ends of Education: For Aaron Swartz

Through the words of the English translator of Agamben’s “Requiem per gli Studenti” (“Requiem for the Students”) we come to know that Italy is the exceptional place where the theory of exception holds — “Agamben refers specifically to developments in Italy.”[1] Agamben’s requiem sketches an idyll of the university which, he notes, is coming to an…

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“To Sing, To Dance, To Creolise and make Music”: Oscar Guardiola-Rivera On Transitions from the Present

Oscar Guardiola-Riverateaches International Law and Globalization and is the Assistant Dean of the School of Law at the University of London, Birkbeck. He is the award-winning author of "What If Latin America Ruled the World" and "Being Against the World: Rebellion and Constitution". He is a member of the Naked Punch Collective and the Editorial…

ByOscar Guardiola-Rivera

AN IRREGULAR ODE

AN IRREGULAR ODE Thirty days shy of forty, on a rush-hour-crowded Coney-Island-bound F train, I questioned the exact circumference of the sandy circle in which the Children of Israel wandered for forty years. Forty years. Were desert environs so sundry as to provide a passable facsimile of farther & farther? Of progress rather than round…

ARSENAL

ARSENAL Yesterday was beautiful; today is thick & stagnant: hurricanes threaten communities from Kitty Hawk to Nantucket – all low-lying areas are evacuated. I seek alternatives (routes & pathways previously discredited) & I understand the efficacy of Harriet Tubman’s oft-brandished pearl-handled pistol: you go on or you die, she promised, every wavering runaway slave committed to…

Philosophy POLITICS

Thinking Collective Self-determination Through Municipalism

The book Anti-Oedipus, by the French thinkers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, has an interesting insight about three types of social formation and their registration surfaces: the primitive society where all is inscribed on land, the bodies are registered on it and everything leads to it; the despotic society where all is inscribed in the despot’s…

Philosophy POLITICS

Biopolitics and Coronavirus, or don’t forget Foucault

The narrative of those who saw the coronavirus as “just another flu”, “hysteria”, “a media product” or the like fell apart. The supposed good reasoning of those immune to panic, calling the hysterical alarmists to reason, was eventually confronted with the abundant evidence of the damage caused by the virus, be it the not negligible…

ByFelipe Demetri