Naked Punch started life as a vehicle of intellectual hope; as a belief in the possibility of a field of open discourse, where disciplinary boundaries are no longer a bar to the reach of the young, original talent we seek to promote alongside the more established thinkers we feel have urgent messages to communicate.

Read on, and share our enthusiasm for the possibilities opened up, the thoughts exposed and hopefully, the conversations initiated by the pages of Naked Punch.

In Issue 5, you will find:

Michael Taussig on 'Ibizan Poppies'
Samuel Hazo 'Ahead of the Road Behind us...'
Philip Lugendorf 'On the Indian-ness of Indian Cinema'
Suraya Sidhu Singh 'Hands, December...'
Richard Shusterman 'In conversation with...'
Qalandar 'Lament with an Ode to a Suit...'
Alphonso Lingis 'The Steppe'
Simon Glendinning 'Human Beings and (Other) Animals'
Rachel Bulla 'A Conversation With Zarathustra'
Salvatore Settis 'Europe and its Many Identities'
Timothy Secret 'The Night is Strewn with Absurd Lights'

See also - www.nakedpunch.com/onlineedition.html