In this issue:

• Contents: 157 Contents Page

• Commentary: Lash out and cover up

  Austerity nostalgia and ironic authoritarianism in recession Britain

  - Owen Hatherley

• Article: William James: An ethics of thought?

  Isabelle Stengers

• Article: Theatre and the public

  Badiou, Rancière, Virno

  - Simon Bayly

• Article: They the people

  Problems of alter-globalization

  - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

• Article: The involution of photography

  Andrew Fisher

• Reviews: 157 Reviews

  Harry Harootunian, Steve Hinchliffe, Douglas Spencer, Olena Kobzar, David Macey, Phillip Cole and Antonio Venezia

• News: 157 News

  Iran and the Left, Academic freedom in California?, Immigration raid on SOAS

  - Sophia Marie Hoffmann, Daniel Olmos, Maryam Griffin and NK