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Cover image
Leaving Purgatory, 2009
Editorial collective
Claudia Aradau, Mat hew Charles,
David Cunningham, Howard Feather,
Peter Hal ward, Esther Leslie, Stewart Martin, Mark Neocleous, Peter Osborne,
Stel a Sandford, Chris Wilbert
Contributors owen hatherley
is a freelance writer, a researcher at Birkbeck Col ege, University of London and the author of Militant Modernism (Zero Books, 2009). He blogs at Sit Down Man, You’re a Bloody Tragedy.
Isabel e stengers
teaches Philosophy of Science at the Free University of Brussels.
Her books in English include The Invention of Science (University of Minnesota Press, 2000).
Simon bayly
is artistic director of the London-based performance col ective PUR and Principal Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at Roehampton University.
Gayatri chakravorty spivak
is University Professor and Director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University, New York. Her most recent book is Other Asias (Wiley–Blackwel , 2008).
Andrew fisher
teaches in the Visual Cultures Department, Goldsmiths, University of London. His ‘Beyond Barthes: Rethinking the Phenomenology of Photography’ appeared in RP 148 (March/April 2008).
Commentary
Lash Out and Cover Up: Austerity Nostalgia and Ironic Authoritarianism in Recession Britain
Owen hatherley …………………………………………………………………………………. 2aRTiClES
William James: An Ethics of Thought?
isabelle Stengers ……………………………………………………………………………….. 9
Theatre and the Public: Badiou, Rancière, Virno
Simon bayly …………………………………………………………………………………….. 20
They the People: Problems of Alter-globalization
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ………………………………………………………………. 31
The Involution of Photography
andrew Fisher …………………………………………………………………………………. 37REviEwS
István Mészáros, The Chal enge and Burden of Historical Time: Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
harry harootunian ……………………………………………………………………………. 47
Sandra Harding, Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities and Modernities
Steve hinchliffe ………………………………………………………………………………… 51
Dimitris Papadopoulos, Niamh Stephenson and Vassilis Tsianos, Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the Twenty-First Century
douglas Spencer ……………………………………………………………………………… 54
Mark Neocleous, Critique of Security
Olena Kobzar …………………………………………………………………………………… 56
Thomas C. Hilde, ed., On Torture
david macey …………………………………………………………………………………….. 58
Adriano Cavarero, Horrorism: Naming Contemporary Violence
Phillip Cole ………………………………………………………………………………………. 60
Annalisa Di Liddo, Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel
Tony venezia …………………………………………………………………………………….. 62NEwS
Iran and the Left
NK …………………………………………………………………………………………………… 65
Israel and Academic Freedom in California
maryam Griffin and daniel Olmos …………………………………………………….. 67
Immigration Raid on SOAS