In this issue:

• Contents: 131 Contents Page

• Commentary: You let her into the house? Reflections on the politics of aid in Africa

  Lara Pawson

• Article: On Bergson’s metaphysics of time

  Max Horkheimer

• Article: ‘Joining tracks with the world’

  The impossibility of politics in China

  - Rebecca E. Karl

• Article: Refiguring the multitude

  From exodus to the production of norms

  - Timothy Rayner

• Reviews: 131 Reviews

  Stewart Martin, Mark Neocleous, Drew Milne, Stephen Frosh, Alastair Morgan and Martyn Everett

• Obituary: Susan Sontag, 1933–2004

  Liam Kennedy

• Obituary: Wolfe Mays, 1912–2005

  Joanna Hodge

• Reviews: Walter Benjamin und die Künste, Haus Am Waldsee, Berlin, October 2004–January 2005

  Crevices and footholds

  - Esther Leslie