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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

ART Fiction Poetry

Notes to Myself and My Other Privileged Friends.

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?”…

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…

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Making Films about the Working-Class: Mike Leigh in Conversation with Qalandar Bux Memon. Part-I

Qalandar Bux Memon: Let’s start with your last film, Peterloo. I read it as an essay on a social movement. It wasn’t focused on a particular character, of course. There was no hero, it explained how unity was build by working-class activists across divisions to demand there rights. It focused on the movement, my first question…

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“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…

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“The Winter of Absolute Zero”: Interview with Shaj Mohan by Auwn Gurmani

The 20th century carried a silent consensus that philosophy was Western, which then was split into ‘continental’ and ‘Anglo-Saxon’/analytical. In recent decades we have seen the assertive presence of non-White philosophers including Achilles Mbembe, Anthony Appiah, Divya Dwivedi, and Shaj Mohan. Shaj Mohan is the philosopher who has been “forsaken”[i] by philosophical traditions as his work…

Philosophy POLITICS

The Macabre Measure of Dalit-Bahujan Mobilisations

Another Dalit girl is dead after being brutally raped, tortured and mutilated by upper caste men (Thakur caste belonging to the savarna Kshatriya varna) on 14 September in Hathras village in Uttar Pradesh, where ten rapes are committed every day according to official statistics, while many others go unreported. Hereby, another human identified as untouchable by…

ByDivya Dwivedi

Algeria’s Forgotten Revolutionary History

Amilcar Cabral, the leader of the Bissau-Guinean armed struggle against colonial Portugal, once said about Algiers: “The Muslims make the pilgrimage to Mecca, the Christians to the Vatican, and the national liberation movements to Algiers.” Cabral was also the first to name Algiers “capital of revolutions” in 1969. By the early 1970s, Algeria had a…

ByYoucef Oussama Bounab