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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 KosakowskiFebruary 7, 20240Comments

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‘The Politics of Aesthetics’: Jacques Rancière Interviewed by Nicolas Vieillescazes

Translation by Anna Preger Art and politics N.V.: Your thought mainly revolves around mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion, around a great divide defining positions and shares, determining who may and who may not take part in an activity (primarily, in political practice), and which you term, in recent works, “the distribution…

ByJacques RanciereFebruary 7, 20240Comments

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‘Between Art and Life’: NP Interview with Arthur Danto

From Naked Punch 03, Summer, 2005. NP: We’re familiar with the discontinuity between art produced before, say, the 14th century, and art produced after that period, with the earlier work being almost exclusively religious or devotional in character. The devotional and religious meanings really structured people’s relations to this art: their artistic character didn’t enter into their production,…

ByArthur DantoFebruary 7, 20240Comments

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Scoundrel times: Paris, Baghdad, Lahore…Interview with TARIQ ALI

Qalandar Bux Memon and Jacopo Moroni in conversation with Tariq Ali: Jacopo Moroni – Mr. Ali, we would like to begin by concentrating on the recent events in the French banlieues. First of all, it seems undeniable that the events are of fundamental importance for the future political and socio-cultural European landscape, forcing us to grasp for a theoretical understanding…

ByTariq AliFebruary 7, 20240Comments

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Gayatri Spivak, Interviwed by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera: At this point in your life, in your career, how would you cast yourself? Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: I have always had great difficulty casting myself, surely it is others who cast me. I think what I really do is teach. I don’t ever have a sense that I do anything other than teach. I…

ByGayatri SpivakFebruary 7, 20240Comments

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Against Discouragement – HOWARD ZINN Interviewed by David Barsamian

Howard Zinn, professor emeritus at Boston University, is perhaps this country's premier radical historian. He was born in Brooklyn in 1922. His parents, poor immigrants, were constantly moving to stay “one step ahead of the landlord.” After high school, he went to work in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. During World War II, he saw combat…

ByHorward ZinnFebruary 7, 20240Comments