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My Poems Bear The Weight And Suffer The Limitations Of My Experiences: An Interview With Rangi McNeil

MY POEMS BEAR THE WEIGHT AND SUFFER THE LIMITATIONS OF MY EXPERIENCES Qalandar Bux Memon: Your poems often evoke death and also aging - which we might say is a movement towards death - it seems the scent of death lingers in your poems. Why. And, then, can I ask, is, for you, live a means…

ByRANGI MCNEILFebruary 9, 20240Comments

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On War, Photopolitics, White Public-Space and the Body: A Conversation with Allen Feldman

AA: I was thinking about the new modalities of warfare; it is no longer a war between two countries, there’s no warfront. I was just reading some statement from a US Military general about how they don’t release details about who is wounded in the fight against ISIS, even though American troops have noncombatant status.…

ByAllen FeldmanFebruary 9, 20240Comments

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Conflictual Universalism(s) – Part 3 of 3

Katrine Bregengaard in discussion with Etienne Balibar- Part 3 of 3 (Illustration of Etienne Balibar by Zahid Mayo) (The interview is a revised version of a conversation that took place in November 2014 at Professor Balibar’s office at Columbia University’s French Department.) HUMAN RIGHTS KATRINE BREGENGAARD: I want to turn to the question of human…

ByEtienne BalibarFebruary 9, 20240Comments

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Noam Chomsky on ISIS

Below is a transcript of a brief interview with Noam Chomsky conducted on 17th November 2015 in Boston, US. Qalandar Memon: How do you think France, EU countries and the US will react to the violence that took place in Paris on 13th November 2015? Likewise, how do you think they should react to that, with the…

ByNOAM CHOMSKYFebruary 9, 20240Comments

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ON ANARCHISM, ALTERNATIVES & NON-VIOLENCE: AN INTERVIEW WITH TODD MAY

Interview conducted 6/29 – 2014 Cæcilie Varslev-Pedersen: How is it to live and work in South Carolina these days? Todd May: It doesn’t get easier. You see that a lot of the country is moving away politically. We don’t have gay marriage. In fact, they’re passing laws to make it harder to be gay. If gay…

ByTodd MayFebruary 9, 20240Comments

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Women Changing India: An Interview with Urvashi Butalia

How does feminism manifest itself in your every day life? Feminism simply is my way of life. I breath it and base my decisions on it. I run my company on feminist principles. For example I employ women and men, but it’s important to me that both can ask for time off to be with…

ByJeanny GeringFebruary 9, 20240Comments

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Prefiguration of a Common Dream: An Interview with David Graeber

Qalandar Bux Memon: Can you explain why you support horizontal organisation, collective assemblies and a dialogical method for organising for social change as opposed to the vertical left party? David Gaeber: I like to make the distinction between forms of organization that could exist outside structures of coercion – that is, in the absence of…

ByDavid GraeberFebruary 9, 20240Comments

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Exclusive Interview with Commander Dr. Allah Nazar of the Baloch Liberation Front

Dr Allah Nazar is Balochistan’s most popular middle-class nationalist leader. Belonging from a modest family in Balochistan’s town of Mashkay, he started his political career from Baloch Students Organization (BSO). He founded his own faction of BSO in February 2002 that openly advocated an armed struggle for liberating Balochistan. In 2003, he went underground to…

ByAsif MagsiFebruary 9, 20240Comments

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The War on the Baloch: An Interview with Meerain Baloch

Qalandar Bux Memon: It has been widely acknowledged that the Pakistani establishment has used right-wing Sunni jihadi organisations as a way to counter Baloch insurgents, who are secularist in their philosophies. Would you agree with this statement, and what examples are there of the complicity between jihadis and the state? Meerain Baloch - Yes, that is…

ByMeerain BalochFebruary 9, 20240Comments

Object Anxiety: Seher Shah Interviewed by Asif Akhtar

An encounter with Seher Shah's work bears an invocation to possibilities of re-enchantment in a disaffected world. Through the minutest detail of mark-making to the construction of expansive urbanscapes, Shah's work, in drawings, photographs, prints, and sculptural objects challenges preconceived notions of the spatial-visible and the temporal-historical facets of modern life. Lines burst into fractals, familiar…

BySeher ShahFebruary 9, 20240Comments