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Peak Oil and National Security: A Critique of Energy Alternatives // George Caffentzis analyses contemporary energy politics: is US national energy independence enough? ;
Basic Instinct: Trauma and Retrenchment 2000-4 // Anthony Davies surveys the recent history of art, business and activism and explores some disquieting parallels :A special section on the politics of precarious labour ;
Precari-us? // Angela Mitropoulos on the use and misuse of the notion of precariousness as applied to the conditions of labour under neoliberalism ; Precarious Straits // Marina Vishmidt on the dubious equation of artists with other forms of insecure (service) workers ;
Cheap Chinese // John Barker on the perilous and exploitative employment of economic migrants essential to capitalist productivity today
Wages for Anyone is Bad for Business // Laura Sullivan spoke to Selma James and Nina Lopez about women's involvement in Venezuela's `Bolivarian revolution' and the State's recent recognition of the economic value of women's labour ;
PROJECT SPACE: Safe Institution -ú Fooling the Present, F*cking the Future// London Rising Tide visits the `Energy ú fuelling the future' exhibition at the Science Museum in London ; A special section exploring the complicity, and potential oppositionality, of art in neoliberal urbanism ;
The Shape of Locative Media// Simon Pope navigates the emerging genre of locative art ;
Mysteries of the Creative Class, or, I Have Seen The Enemy and They Is Us// Gregory Sholette on REPOhistory and their fight to re-write the official story of urban renewal in Manhattan ;
Explaining Urbanism to Wild Animals// Mark Crinson on some contemporary artists' attempts to engage with urban histories and collective memory ; Another Gaze// Simon Njami on the changing relation of the international art world to African art ;
Oh I love freedom! But what is it?// Mattin on the politics of musical improvisation ;
PROJECT SPACE: Migrasophia// Zeigam Azizov's specially comissioned art project ;
The Dissolving Fortress -ú Notes on the Future of WIPO// JJ King on the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)'s adoption of a 'Development Agenda' ;
Inside Out// Stella Santacatterina reviews the Helen Chadwick retrospective, at the Barbican, London
Network Culture// Steve Wright reviews Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age by Tiziana Terranova
Waste Product// Hari Kunzru on a new documentary about Gustav Metzger
Sex Cells// Andrew Goffey reviews Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire by Luciana Parisi
Terminal Platitudes// Daniel Jewesbury reviews Terminal Frontiers, a show at Streetlevel Photoworks in Glasgow
The Dishonour of Poets// Howard Slater reviews The Yale Anthology of Twentieth Century French Poetry, ed. Mary Ann Caws
Haunted Sublimity// Ben Watson reviews David Toop's Haunted Weather
The Death of the Death of the Portrait// Richard Wright reviews the exhibition About Face, Hayward Gallery, London
Bug Report// Christian Nold reviews Jodi's solo show at FACT, Manchester
Art(s Council) History// Olga Goriunova reviews New Media Art: Practice and Context in the UK 1994-2004, edited by Lucy Kimbell
Post-Humanism=Post-Animality// Tim Savage reviews Donna Haraway's Companion Species Manifesto
Back to the Future -ú Ars Electronica at 25// Michelle Kasprzak reviews this year's festival in Linz
The Insecurity Lasts a Long Time// Anthony Iles reviews Republicart's issue on precarious labour
Under the Pavement, the Id// Josephine Berry Slater reviews Paul Noble's show at The Whitechapel Gallery, London
Something over against is (or) Accidence commenced// Anja Büchele and Matthew Hyland on the works of poet Susan Howe
The Wireless Loveboat: ISEA 2004// Armin Medosch on the 12th International Symposium on Electronic Arts
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