In this issue:

• Contents: 146 Contents Page

• Commentary: Who’s afraid of gay parents?

  Sylvie Duverger

• Commentary: Many enemies, much honour

  The founding of The Left Party in Germany

  - Albrecht von Lucke

• Article: The absolute artwork meets the absolute commodity

  Stewart Martin

• Article: The impossibility of gender in narratives of China’s modernity

  Harriet Evans

• Article: documenta 12 magazines project: Debacle

  Introduction, The Sublime Whiff of Criticality, Magazines Field, or, the Next Documenta Should be Curated by Magazines, The Big Lie

  - Peter Osborne, Radical Culture Research Collective, Patricia Canetti, Leandro de Paula, Dario Corbeira and Irene Montero

• Reviews: 146 Reviews

  Simon Jarvis, David Macey, Harry Harootunian and Liam O’Ruairc

• Obituary: Richard Rorty, 1931–2007

  Neil Gascoigne

• Obituary: Joseph McCarney, 1941–2007

  Chris Arthur