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KASHMIR IN AN ERA OF DYING DEMOCRACY

I. Late last November, after months of being cut off from Kashmir, I managed to get through to an old friend in my hometown in South Kashmir over a rickety landline connection. There was clicking, popping, and static in the line. “These sounds you hear,” my friend said matter-of-factly, “are coming from third-party interference.” I…

ByMohamad Junaid

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Viral Intrusion

Contingency In his last courses at the Collège de France, Foucault insisted more and more strongly on a Greek concept that, in fact, designated a way of life: parrhesía. This vocable can be translated as frank or true-speaking. Initially conceptualized as a form of subjectification typical of Hellenistic philosophy, that notion demanded masters to be…

ByAndityas Matos

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What Carries Us On

It is frightfully sublime in part because of its obscurity. – Immanuel Kant Implicit within the debate on Coronavirus curated by Antinomie and archived by Sergio Benvenuto[i] is the question—for what must we carry on? That is, do we—humanity, which has been reckoned by many thinkers as the error in nature—carry on for the sake of carrying on? Or, should…

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The Obscure Experience

In philosophizing we may not terminate a disease of thought. It must run its natural course, and slow cure is all important.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein Implicitly we are asking in these discussions about the COVID-19 pandemic [1] is there a norm for man? Earlier it was philosophy that had the task of constituting the systems under which the limits and also the…

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Statement of Rationale and Demands of the Movement of Greek Workers, of and in Arts and Culture by Support Art Workers

Naked Punch Collective stands in solidarity with the Support Art Workers movement that started in the first weekend of May 2020 in Athens, Greece. Below, we present the statement drafted by the movement and specifically its Assembly Group for ORGANISATION – COORDINATION – INITIATIVE. RATIONALE: Following the humbling widespread dispersal of our message #SupportArtWorkers…

By#SupportArtWorkers

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Biopolitical Conflicts in the Fractures of Development

The neo-developmentalism’s biopolitics in Brazil In general lines, we can say that capitalism is a way of producing and organizing the production, extracting wealth and generating value. The way it happens is not the same everywhere capitalism is present. There is an international division of labor and, mainly after the globalization, the task of production…

ByRenan Nery Porto

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The Postnormal Perfect Storm 1

THE POSTNORMAL PERFECT STORM - IN THREE PARTS PART 1: THE NATURE OF THE CRISIS When Ziauddin Sardar published his landmark paper Welcome to Postnormal Times (PNT) ten years ago, he proposed a new theoretical approach for developing a better understanding of how change itself was changing in the present. Over the years, there have…

ByJordi Serra del Pino

INTERVIEWS Philosophy Poetry POLITICS

Tariq Ali on Corbyn and the British Media, Palestine, Kurdistan, Pashtun movements and how to revive Internationalism.

Tariq Ali Interview Transcript: Interview conducted on 1st June 2019. Vilayat Khan: So, let’s start with Corbyn and the Labour Party. How would you assess Corbyn on Brexit? Tariq Ali: I think Corbyn’s position is correct. I think to make Brexit into the major divide of the British politics is crazy. Given…

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We Will Not Be Silenced

Colonialism made us feel backward. It was always Europe that was advanced and enlightened, and it was always the East that was backward and wretched. Rather than honestly say that they had come to plunder, the colonial rulers said that they had come to school the East – it needed to be civilized. Every European…

ByVijay Prashad

ART Fiction Poetry

To Contend With The Heart In Winter (For Sushi Anarkali)

It is strange to contend with the heart in winter to carry blood so visible to each passer-by, To bleed with memories of colour, To carry to friends choked tears verses, moments and now sumptuous pain To coil reprieves and apologies, To consider eulogy but to write laments, In winter it is hard to contend…

ByQalandar Bux Memon