'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, w...
On Frantz Fanon
Forward to Black Skin, White Masks By Zia Sardar. Black Skin, White Masks by Franz Fanon, Pluto, London, 2008http://www.plutobooks.com/cgi-local/main.pl I think it would be...
'The Politics of Aesthetics': Jacques Rancière Interviewed by Nicolas Viei...
Translation by Anna PregerArt and politics N.V.: Your thought mainly revolves around mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion, around a great divide defining positions and shares, determining who ...
Running down the wrong road
Vijay Prashad considers the regional alternative to troop escalation in Afghanistan, and suggests its neighbours are ready to take on the burden of stabilising the country - but only if the US ...
Christian Communists, Islamic Anarchists?
In Part 1 of this article we argued that Slavoj Žižek and Alain Badiou's account of the foundation of Communist universalism in the event of Christianity signals a number o...
Bad Sufi
The Bad Sufi A look at the practise of Contemporary Sufism in Pakistan. It is often assumed that Sufism stands opposed to Wahhabism. Wrong. Sufism and Wahhabism, in ...
Vortex in Bengal.
Violence in West Bengal's western districts has reached crisis proportions. Each day, one or more cadre member or sympathizer of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPM] is killed either by Ma...
Caught in Justin Lieberman’s Web: A critique, or homage, or some ot...
Something strange happened after interviewing artist Justin Lieberman for his latest exhibition, Salto Mortale, at the Bernier Eliades Gallery in Athens, Greece; I suffered a crippling ca...
British terror trial: UK collusion with Musharraf’s dictatorship
The London trial of Baloch human rights activists on trumped up terrorism charges revealed high level collusion between the British government and the dictatorship of Pervez Musharraf. Prime Ministe...
Chhattisgarh: The Future of India?
NANDINI SUNDAR Chhattisgarh: The Future of India? Interviewed by David Barsamian New Delhi, India 29 November 2009 Nandini Sundar is a professor of sociology at the Delhi Sch...