Issue 8 features an extensive section on Latin American politics and a Dossier on Contemporary Art from Lebanon. Further, Issue 8 offers an original contribution by reknowed historian Marcus Rediker and an interview with post-colonial thinker Gayatri Spivak

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Contents -

Fragments of a Prologue:
Qalandar Bux Memon, Simon Critchley, Nadim Samman.

Essays:
Marcus Rediker
Thomas Clarkson and History From Below
Naomi Green
Criticism as Autobiography: Pier Paolo Pasolini on E.M. Forster's Maurice

Dialogues:
Ernesto Laclau
Gayatri Spivak

Lebanese Contemporary Art Dossier:
Walid Sadeek, Jalal Toufic, and various authors.

The Latin American Turn
Ernesto Laclau in Conversation with Oscar Guariola-Rivera

SITUATIONS:
Fernando Garces
Territorial Order, Natural Resources and the Constituent Assembly in Bolivia: Towards a Plurinational state?

Fernando Coronil
State and Nation During the Coup Against Chavez

Orlando Fals Borda
Reinforcing Colombia's New Alternative Pole

Ramon Grosfoguel and Nelson Maldonado-Torres
Latinos(as) Migrants and the Decolonization of the US Empire

POTENTIALITIES:
Enrique Dussel, The People, the Popular and 'Populism'
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, The Most Sublime of Fetishists

Poetry:
Qalandar Bux Memon
Bruce Bond
Graham Foust
Ed Skoog
Stuart Dischell