Sean Cubitt on technology, social knowledge, dialectics, virtuality, and the futural politics and aesthetics of media and communications technologies   

The War Office: Everyday Environments and War Logistics

Gair Dunlop writes on war and logistics whilst photographing the abandoned office spaces on disbanded squadron facilities at RAF Coltishall

The Intellectual Genealogies and Possible Futures of Cultural Studies: An Interview with Tony Bennett

Huimin Jin questions contemporary cultural studies by way of this interview with one of its leading figures, who discusses everything from the concept of governmentality to Raymond Williams, Antonio Gramsci, and Michel Foucault

(The War on) Terrorism: Destruction, Collapse, Mixture, Re-enforcement, Construction

Leonie Ansems de Vries rethinks who committed suicide and what actually collapsed on September 11, 2001 in the light of contemporary urban despair and Jean Baudrillard's contentions concerning the dominant Western order

Pursuit in Paris

John Armitage visits the grave of Jean Baudrillard, takes a few photographs, and wonders what he is doing there

Field Report

Famous for 15 Seconds

Kathe Burkhart exhibits her Liz Taylor series of paintings and discusses celebrity culture in relation to her own artistic practice 

BOOK REVIEW ESSAY

What is Anti-Utopianism? Gray, Jacoby, Jameson

Stefan Skrimshire on the revival of interest in utopian politics, John Gray's Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia, Russell Jacoby, and Fredric Jameson

Book Reviews

An Analyst’s Couch for Architects

Li Shiqiao considers Neil Leach's Camouflage, architectural theory, and post-phenomenological frameworks of ontological thinking, mimesis, and architecture

Desiring a Coherent China

Emily Chua discusses Lisa Rofel's Desiring China, anthropology, and China's search for a post-Maoist narrative of national coherence