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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…

ByTariq AliFebruary 9, 20240Comments

Working Class Ballet: Fragments on Football

Let me try and explain why football is so important to me, and why it becomes more rather than less important to me as I get older. My family is from Liverpool in the northwest of England and my father used to train at Liverpool Football Club’s training ground in the early 1950s until an…

BySimon CritchleyFebruary 9, 20240Comments

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Solidarity Above All: Josh Hon and Stephanie Bailey talk about Art, Politics and Football

Stephanie Bailey and Josh Hon in conversation Josh Hon is an artist from Hong Kong who trained in the United States before returning to the city in 1982, where he established himself as a central figure in the art and political scenes of what was then a British colony. Hon’s cross-disciplinary practice encapsulated everything from theatre…

ByJosh HonFebruary 9, 20240Comments

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Exclusion & the Biopolitical Moment: Reflections on the evictions of refugees from Athens

The evictions of Athens squats in the Exarchia neighborhood of the city were expected once the elected New Democracy center-right party, were voted into office with a 39.85% win on July 7 of this year. What was less expected was that the center-right party whose Prime Minister is a Harvard and Stanford graduate would prove…

ByAdrianne KalfopoulouFebruary 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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Indigenizing International Law from an Inverse Legal Anthropology

Considering the philosophical, political, and artistic concerns that Naked Punch have been introducing over the years in order to unveil the plurality of philosophical languages that populate the world – echoing the interaction between Bruno Mazzoldi and Jacques Derrida – and projecting such a deconstructive endeavour as the interlocution of different philosophical traditions as equals,…

ByPaulo Ilich BaccaFebruary 9, 20240Comments

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Conflictual Universalism(s) – Part 1 of 3

Katrine Bregengaard in discussion with Etienne Balibar- Part 1 of 3. (Illustration of Etienne Balibar by Zahid Mayo) (This 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.) The question of universalism has haunted philosophy from its very beginnings. What…

ByEtienne BalibarFebruary 9, 20240Comments

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Conflictual Universalism(s) – Part 2 of 3

Katrine Bregengaard in discussion with Etienne Balibar- Part 2 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.) MARXISM KATRINE BREGENGAARD: Let’s turn to the history of your work in relation…

ByEtienne BalibarFebruary 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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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