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‘The Artist is Part of the Class’: Mike Leigh in Conversation with Qalandar Bux Memon

Mike Leigh talks to Qalandar Bux Memon about film-language and class, film-making as an artistic process, acting, editing, and the politics of representation. Qalandar Bux Memon: So, I had a question about the… Mike Leigh: Which films of mine have you seen? QBM: I've seen... I've seen a few. I was in Lahore and I…

ByMike LeighFebruary 10, 20240Comments

Philosophy Uncategorized

“He Has Lit a Funeral Pyre in Everyone’s Home”

Dear Kamran Baradaran, Your question is complex—“what does it mean to be a philosopher in the middle of a pandemic in India”. Philosopher has no adjective—national, linguistic, and even of schools. In your question “the pan” or “the whole“ of the “pandemic” (what has befallen the whole) speaks of that which exceeds adjectives such as…

ByShaj MohanFebruary 10, 20240Comments

Philosophy Uncategorized

Why “Philosophy-World-Democracy” matters? Vital Emergence of a New Beginning

There is a new “It” journal—Philosophy World Democracy. It has all the ingredients which make a great journal and a historic moment in philosophy as the “Ends of Man” conference organised by Jacques Derrida, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and Jean-Luc Nancy did in 1980. In fact, Philosophy World Democracy can be traced to that event called “Ends of Man”,…

ByKamran BaradaranFebruary 10, 20240Comments

Philosophy POLITICS Uncategorized

BECOMING VIAGRA AND CHLOROQUINE: Essay on Toxic-Subjectivities

CARTOGRAPHY OF VULNERABILITY If we really think about vulnerability during the pandemic period of COVID-19, we should say that this feeling is widespread. Every single person feels vulnerable to the virus. It is a sort of becoming trans* of the world. However, it is necessary to sketch out a cartography of vulnerability in Latin America.…

ByAlessandra MawuFebruary 10, 20240Comments

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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…

ByMike LeighFebruary 10, 20240Comments

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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…

ByAuwn GurmaniFebruary 10, 20240Comments

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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…

ByAuwn GurmaniFebruary 10, 20240Comments

INTERVIEWS POLITICS Uncategorized

Algeria’s Second Revolution: An Interview With Amel Ouaissa

Naked Punch Talks To Sociologist Amel Ouaissa About Her Experience As An Algerian Living In The Diaspora And Her Take On The Hirak. Qalandar Bux Memon: Let us begin with questions regarding the movement or the protests themselves. What was your experience participating in these protests? Why did you and others protest? What were the…

ByAmel OuaissaFebruary 10, 20240Comments

Poetry POLITICS Uncategorized

TRYING TIMES

Dear Friends and comrades We are going through trying times. Humanity is on trial. This is the time when the worst and the best in us comes out in ways that we could not have imagined in normal times. We are used to saying ‘the personal is political’. Now the ‘social is personal’, so much…

ByIssa G. ShivjiFebruary 10, 20240Comments

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Little Things I Miss

Little things I miss I miss laughter. I miss meeting and greeting people in the street. I miss my friends at Kijiweni. I miss the incessant chatter of baraza and utani between Yanga and Simba. And the argument among wazee of who is older than whom. I miss children in their uniforms walking to school.…

ByIssa G. ShivjiFebruary 10, 20240Comments