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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 we aim to address is the philosophical or, more generally, theoretical impasse that characterises much of contemporary discussion. Torn between a highly self-conscious "European" difficulty in surpassing 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, we aim 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 we may call artistic. By treating artists and film directors as serious thinkers, we aim 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.
Our inter-disciplinary character 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. It is rather the interplay of such disciplines that, representing the fundamental expression and definition of the age, needs to be fostered and encouraged.
Naked Punch aims to lodge itself in between so called 'high academic' discourse and the dubbed down gibberish of all too many publications aimed at "the general educated reader". All too often it seems impossible to pick up a journal without either being utterly baffled by an obscure argument resting upon an army of footnotes or down right disappointed when faced with yet another 'Science vs. Religion' paper.
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The Naked Punch Board is as follows:
Editors
Qalandar Bux Memon
qalandar@nakedpunch.com
Francesco Cincotta
francesco@nakedpunch.com
Philosophy
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
oscar@nakedpunch.com
Nicolas Vieillescazes
Art Committee
Ariane Braillard
Juliana Cerqueira Leite
Mark Charles
Editorial Collaborators
Max Kob
Iffat Memon
Amin Samman
Zain Sardar
Zoe Sutherland
Illan Rua Wall
Contributing Editors
Amelie Barras
John Chalcraft
Kyoo Lee
Elena Loizidou
Vijay Prashad
Artists
Saiful Huq
Eunkyung Kang
Biaggio Mastroianni
Consulting Editors
Simon Critchley
Arthur Danto
Costas Douzinas
Hilary Lawson
Marcus Rediker
Ziauddin Sardar
Richard Shusterman
Michael Taussig
Peter Weibel
Marketing & Sales
Illan Wall
illan@nakedpunch.com
Art Direction & Design
Rasha Kahil
www.rashakahil.com
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United Kingdom