
LEARN TO LIVE WITHOUT MASTERS.
AN INTERVIEW WITH SLAVOJ zIZEK BY OSCAR GUARDIOLA-RIVERA London, November-December 2007 1. GETTING RID OF THE BIG OTHER. OGR: It seems as if, in the end, your philo...

Human Beings and (Other) Animals
Can philosophy make room for animals? Perhaps that is the only question I want to ask in this paper. My worry is that the language of philosophy has kept us in a cage as far as animals are concerne...

My country, Left or Right (from theSamosa.co.uk)
Political hand-wringing over the ethnicity of Britain’s babies simple reveals the pervasiveness of racist attitudes. Good news: the population is stabilising. The people of Britain a...

The Violent State
Whose headless body is this Whose scarlet shroud Whose torn and wounded cloak Whose broken voice? (1) I Meditations on violence The macho encounte...

Violent Thoughts About Slavoj Zizek
Slavoj Zizek has been telling lies about me. He attacked a recent book of mine, Infinitely Demanding, in the London Review of Books.[1] Since then, things have gone from ba...

Beyond the Page - Hammad Nasar on Contemporary Pakistani Art
Jan. 12, 2008 From issue 10 of Naked Punch Review Juliana Cerqueira Leite: Peter Weibel has described the curator as a 'producer'  ...

"Creating Something Artful": Interview with Richard Shusterman
From Naked Punch 05.Tully Rector: Much of your work focuses on the idea of self-fashioning, the creation and shaping of oneself, as askesis. What constitutes askesis for you? Richard Shusterman: It&r...

DREAMING BETWEEN THE FRAMES
From Naked Punch: 04 WW: I’ll do my best to answer them. Let’s see… Naked Punch: You've written that "the act of filming is a heroic act", because "the camera i...

Nostalghia unto Death
FROM NP COMMUNARD: Journal of Critical Globalisation www.criticalglobalisation.com The famous Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky once described the experience of exile for a...

Blinded by race
We imagine our life to be lived through a singular journey in which we are striving for a meaningful existence. The start of this journey is predicated on the foundational idea that there is a basic b...