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Poem: Untitled (From Dossier Brighton Poetry)

1: If there could be such a love, a dog love, dog did I love a bit as though it yelps, impenetrably. Love is a picture, a picture of a river and inside the salt moves in ways that remind me of a dream I once had bound tight up to the eye sockets, “I…

Poem: The Steps (Dossier Brighton Poetry)

THE STEPS After Paul Valéry You are not the clutch of silence, placed gently against the blessed, as towards a knowledge that sleep is the patina mooting its practices. Nor clear with sacraments’ shade, that are soft but like unrestricting! Good in everything I can divine comes to me at bases…

ByMichael Kindellan

Arthur Danto – Interviewed by Zoe Sutherland

Zoe: It is a great pleasure to be here in New York, interviewing you for Naked Punch. I’m happy to see that you have a lot of exciting art here in your apartment, including, naturally, the Brillo Box that you have positioned rather nonchalantly under your coffee table. Is that thing real? Is it an, original? Danto: It is…

Poem: Epiphany (For Adrian Mitchell, 1932 – 2008)

Epiphany For Adrian Mitchell (1932-2008) Epiphany is not a blazing light. A blazing light blazes when warplanes spread their demon’s wings and drop their demon’s eggs over the city, and the city burns like the eye of a screaming horse. Epiphany is a comic book during the war. A sailor on the convoy from New…

ByMartin Espada

Interview with film-maker Michal Kosakowski

Naked Punch Contributing Editor and founder of Shoppinghour magazine Peter Eramian interviews Michal Kosakowski. Peter: Three movies that I’d like to discuss: “Just Like the Movies”, “The Heart of It” and “Fortynine”. In “Just Like the Movies” you basically reconstruct September 11th using footage from Hollywood blockbusters. This seems to me to be a statement about the fictionalization of certain political…

ByMichal Kosakowski

The Trouble with House Arrest

One problem with house arrest is that you never quite know who’s in-charge. Or what you’ve been charged with. Or how the situation will be resolved. Between prisoner and jailor, who has the greater power? Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar, Zhao Zhiyang in China, Habib Bourgouiba in Tunisia, Sukarno in Indonesia, Mossadeq and Ayatollah Hossein-Ali…

Those Struggling for a Different Pakistan

I. Prologue Pakistan is in a state of crisis. The history of Pakistan, looked at from a human perspective, has been a perpetual crisis since its birth. The ruling elite have operated -- from the very beginning -- on cronyism, nepotism, and legal and illegal corruption. They have always been inefficient and indifferent to the…

ByQalandar Bux Memon

The survival of Art in an image-saturated era

The survival of Art in an image-saturated era Introduction The advent of Photography and Film undoubtedly changed our perception of Art forever. What was once static representation, secluded within the walls of the museum, became motion and action in front of the eyes of TV and cinema´s massive audiences. At the time, art theorists had…

ByVeronica Pamoukaghlian

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'Naked Punch Review is looking for fresh voices in poetry, art and film criticism, philosophy and anything else that you think may interest our readers. We would welcome your submission for our on-line version. There is no limit in terms of words and form from our side except the technical limit of presenting material on-line.…

Philosophy POLITICS

The Withered State

Disaster is the only news of the day. It was providential that a sinkhole has opened up in Guatemala. It is 100-feet deep with a circular chasm of 66 feet. An act of nature, it is felt, is so much easier to deal with than the many, too many acts of human despoliation. Oil plumes…

ByVijay Prashad

Landscapes of the Green Line of Cyprus: Healing the Rift.

Landscapes of the Green Line of Cyprus: Healing the Rift. From a deep wound to a beautiful scar. The UN controlled Green Line occupies approximately 3% of the land mass of the island of Cyprus. Frozen in a military status quo for the past 35 years, this strip of land swallows up abandoned…

ByDr. Anna Grichting

Philosophy POLITICS

A Cypriot’s Problem, or How Not to Deal with Existential Anxiety

A Cypriot’s Problem, or How Not to Deal with Existential Anxiety What’s our problem? What’s in a problem? There is an old joke that participants to Cyprus conflict seminars probably heard more than once. It pokes fun at a peculiar Cypriot fixation, still highly topical, and goes like this. Three men are sentenced to death in a…

ByCostas Douzinas