Editorial
One Hundred and Fifty, Not Out
………………………………………………………. 2cOmmEnTARy
Beware Electocrats: Naomi Klein on South Africa
Ronald Suresh Roberts ………………………………………………………………………. 3ARTIcLES
‘The Rush to the Intimate’: Counterinsurgency and the Cultural Turn
Derek Gregory ……………………………………………………………………………………. 8
‘All Human Beings are Pregnant’: The Bisexual Imaginary in Plato’s Symposium
Stella Sandford ………………………………………………………………………………… 24InTERvIEw
Art after Photography, after Conceptual Art
Jeff wall interviewed by Peter Osborne …………………………………………….. 36REvIEwS
Giovanni Arrighi, Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century
John Kraniauskas …………………………………………………………………………….. 52
Andy Hamilton, Aesthetics and MusicPaul Hegarty, Noise/Music: A History
Andrew mcGettigan …………………………………………………………………………. 55
Amber Jacobs, On Matricide: Myth, Psychoanalysis and the Law of the Mother
Alison Stone ……………………………………………………………………………………. 58
Claudia Aradau, Rethinking Trafficking in Women: Politics Out of Security
Guillermina Seri ……………………………………………………………………………….. 61
Christopher Goto-Jones, ed., Re-politicising the Kyoto School as Philosophy
Fabian Säfer …………………………………………………………………………………….. 64nEwS
Academic Freedom, the Israeli Left and the Occupation Within
David cunningham …………………………………………………………………………… 67cOnFEREncE REPORT
The Substance of Thought, Cornell University, 10–12 April 2008
nathan Brown………………………………………………………………………………….. 71cOnTEnTS150
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Editorial collective
David Cunningham, Howard Feather, Peter Hallward, Esther Leslie, Stewart Martin,
Kaye Mitchell, Mark Neocleous,
Peter Osborne, Stella Sandford
Contributors ronald suresh roberts
is a Cape Townbased West Indian writer whose recent books include No Cold Kitchen: A Biography of Nadine Gordimer (2005) and Fit to Govern: The Native Intelligence of Thabo Mbeki (2007).
Derek gregory
is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia at Vancouver, and author of The Colonial Present: Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq (Blackwell, 2004). His next book is War Cultures (Routledge, forthcoming).
Stella sandford
is Principal Lecturer in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University, London. Her next book, Plato and the Philosophy of Sex, will be published by Polity Press.
Jeff wall
is an artist and writer.
Peter osborne
is Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy,
Middlesex University. His books include Conceptual Art (Phaidon, 2002).
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Pif le Chien, Red Bauble, 2008. The images on pp. 29, 57, 62 are of works in the Boijamns van Beuningen Museum,
Rotterdam, by Paul McCarthy, Maurizio Catalan and Lawrence Weiner, respectively.