Challenging the idealism of autonomist Marxism, Negativity and Revolution is a recent anthology that uses Adorno's negative dialectics to refuse false unities, placing contradiction and antagonism at the heart of revolutionary theory. Review by Marina Vishmidt

Despite the State being the main investor in the UK's national economy, the official rhetoric of private sector productivity is alive and well. James Heartfield takes a look at Labour's failed strategy of privatising public services and the rise of ‘corporate welfare'

From a canal path confrontation comes bobo redemption. A story by Benedict Seymour

The hipster was riding home from work along the canal path, past the yuppie apartments. The light was beautiful through the clouds and everything had a magical sheen in the aftermath of the rainstorm.

Alina Marrazzi's film, We Want Roses Too, juxtaposes found film footage with personal narratives in a mash up that identifies the struggles of Italy's sexual revolution. In her review, Agnese Trocchi points out a broader purpose: to unify today's solo-fighting woman with her activist mothers, aunts and grandmothers of radical past

Usury has been demonised throughout history, by poets, politicians and political economists, as a threat to healthy productive and domestic relations. But here, Melinda Cooper and Angela Mitropoulos praise subprime debtors as 'speculators' who are making their own exorbitant claims on the future

Matteo Pasquinelli's book, Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons, asks us to get real about the dark, libidinal desires and living labour that underlie the 'multitude' and the commons. Review by Luciana Parisi

The omission of local, working class voices from Liverpool's City of Culture programme is no less conspicuous in film-maker Terence Davies' plummy elegy, Of Time and the City - writes Peter Carty

In light of the postmodernist cul-de-sac of relativism which, for all its social constructivism, cannot escape crude causality, M. Beatrice Fazi proposes a metaphysics of difference for decoding expression in interactive media