Issue 08
Contemporary Art from Lebanon
Autumn 2006: a dossier on contemporary art from Lebanon and a Latin America special — with Ernesto Laclau, Gayatri Spivak, Marcus Rediker, Simon Critchley and more. Cover by Guillermo Gómez-Peña.
In this issue
Green marks the dossier on contemporary art from Lebanon; blue marks the Latin America special.
1
The Wolves Must No Longer Find Isolated Lambs to Prey Upon
Qalandar Bux Memon’s prologue — Fanon, Lebanon, Palestine and the failures of our governments.
5 min read
2
Ruminative Fragments from a Book I Will Never Finish
Simon Critchley thinks aloud — fragments from an unwritten book.
6 min read
3
Thomas Clarkson and History from Below
Historian Marcus Rediker on the abolitionist Thomas Clarkson and writing history from below.
10 min read
4
Criticism as Autobiography: Pasolini on Forster's Maurice
Naomi Greene reads Pasolini reading Forster.
8 min read
5
Gayatri Spivak in Conversation
The postcolonial theorist in dialogue with Oscar Guardiola-Rivera.
12 min read
6
Poetry Section
New poems by Qalandar Bux Memon, Bruce Bond, Stuart Dischell, Graham Foust and Ed Skoog.
8 min read
7
DOSSIER: ART FROM LEBANON
From Image to Corpse
Walid Sadek on images, war and mourning in Lebanon.
10 min read
8
DOSSIER: ART FROM LEBANON
Excerpts from File: Public Time
Abdullah, Khbeiz and Sadek — a collaborative text on public time in Beirut.
7 min read
9
DOSSIER: ART FROM LEBANON
The Writing is on the Wall
Jalal Toufic reads the walls of a city that has survived itself.
7 min read
10
DOSSIER: ART FROM LEBANON
Featured Artist: Gilbert Hage
Portraits from the series Tout Un Chacun, exhibited in ‘Out of Beirut’.
4 min read
11
LATIN AMERICA SPECIAL
Ernesto Laclau in Conversation
The theorist of populism and hegemony in dialogue with Oscar Guardiola-Rivera.
14 min read
12
LATIN AMERICA SPECIAL
State and Nation During the Coup Against Hugo Chávez
Fernando Coronil on Venezuela’s 2002 coup and what it revealed.
12 min read
13
LATIN AMERICA SPECIAL
Reinforcing Colombia's New Alternative Pole
Sociologist Orlando Fals Borda on Colombia’s political alternative.
7 min read
14
LATIN AMERICA SPECIAL
The People, the Popular, and “Populism”
Philosopher of liberation Enrique Dussel untangles the popular from populism.
8 min read
15
LATIN AMERICA SPECIAL
The Most Sublime of Fetishists
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera closes the Latin American turn.
10 min read