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Naked Punch Review
| Naked Punch Review | |
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| Type | Journal |
| Format | Magazine |
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| Founded | 2002 |
| Political allegiance | Marxist / Universalist / Dada-Tata / Social Conservative |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
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| Website: http://www.nakedpunch.com/ | |
Naked Punch Review is a quarterly interdisciplinary review/magazine of philosophy, art, politics and poetry run voluntarily by young, unestablished figures in the above field. Contributors have included Antonio Negri, Tariq Ali, Wim Wenders, Arthur Danto, Richard Shusterman, Simon Critchley, Walden Bello, Michael Taussig, Adonis, Mahmoud Darvish among others.
Founded in 2002 by a group of young London-based thinkers, Naked Punch is a engaged review of contemporary art and thought. Essentially a federal, "non-institutional" project, Naked Punch is the spontaneous collaboration of thinkers and artists residing in different cities of the world. Before being a magazine, a container of material or a "cabinet of objects", it is a shared understanding, a shared feeling of unease, a shared concern, and a shared sensitivity. Naked Punch is the embodiment of its contributors' breath.
A distinguishing feature of Naked Punch is its contemporaneity. The review aims to actively engage with current developments in, broadly, three deeply connected areas.
The first concern it aims to address is the philosophical or, more generally, theoretical impasse that characterises much of contemporary discussion. Torn between a highly self-conscious "European" difficulty to surpass the deconstructive rhetoric and an English speaking philosophy that has divorced itself from fundamental cultural and social engagements, the current state of theoretical thought is in need of a new direction that actively surmounts both the risk of a purely self-referential, quasi-aesthetic philosophy, and the risk of an escape to an "ivory tower" characterised by exquisitely technical concerns and "professionalized" philosophising.
The second concern may be termed social or political. In times of great political turbulence, where the classical categories of political understanding and social division prove their inefficacy daily, a renewed interest in and engagement with the course our global society is taking is vitally necessary. Aside from political figures, the aim is to pose the question of the shape our society ought to take to philosophers and artists alike, inaugurating a platform of social debate between different and varied currents of thought.
The third concern may be called artistic. By treating artists and film directors as serious thinkers, the aim is to put into communication contemporary artistic currents with the developments of society at large. We believe in the power of art to rend more intelligible the reality one dwells in, or "the spirit of the age", to use such a term.
The inter-disciplinary character of the review aims to persuade the reader that the areas of expression just discussed cannot be clearly divided up in "spheres of influence", to be tackled by an exquisitely professionalized one-dimensional thinker, pursuing an all too sectarian approach.
The review strives, instead, to create debate and conversation across and over entrenched institutional and academic lines ? with the hope of creating options that can help us reassert our agency in creating and shaping our shared existence. Also, we actively seek to introduce our readers to thinkers geographically from the non-west in the hope of creating a ?fusion of horizon?, which can truly reflect and further the hybrid and interrelated nature of our existence.
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