Whether seen as the ultimate capitalists, Buddhists or communards, bees elicit fantasies and fears of social productivity and crisis by turns. This issue is not really about bees of course, but the ‘colony collapse disorder' which is currently threatening the global bee population works as a stark metaphor for the crisis of reproduction that is currently afflicting human society as it is currently configured. The collection of articles, stories and images in this issue can be seen as actively disordering colony collapse, whereby our destabilised social and ecological environments are not dispassionately reported upon, but insistently reordered in the pursuit of a hive better suited to our species needs

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Editorial

Class War: The Game: The Movie
Between playful graffiti on the walls of the Sorbonne and long denunciations of the spectacle lies the enigma that is Guy Debord's Game of War. Veteran gamer Scott Lenney played a match with Class Wargames at their Summer Offensive, enjoyed it thoroughly but wondered at the aim of the game

Crisis in California – Everything Touched by Capital Turns Toxic
California dreaming turns to California nightmare as decades of agribusiness, real estate development and exploitation of migrant workers take their toxic toll. Gifford Hartman takes us on a guided tour of the Golden State's darkside

The State Climate Camp's In
Having chosen the conspicuously tranquil site of Blackheath for Climate Camp 2009, attention shifted from the politics of land occupation to the camp’s panic-fuelled green authoritarianism. Report by Damian Abbott

Upstairs Downstairs: From Intensity to Entitlement
Separating out the wrist-strain of typewriter-hewn typographic constructions from more recent wheel-mouse conceptualism, Keston Sutherland navigates the textual corridors and dead ends of Poor. Old. Tired. Horse. at the ICA

Invisible Politics - An Introduction to Contemporary Communisation
In the wake of the organised left and the demise of working class self-identity, communisation offers a paradoxical means of superseding capitalism in the here and now whilst abandoning orthodox theories of revolution. John Cunningham reports from the picket line of the ‘human strike'

London is a World Class City!
By Max Reeves

On the Post-City
As the urban grid of modernity gives way to the web, and architecture cedes to the virtual dynamics of tethered electronics, Daniel Miller cracks open the password protected ‘post-city’

Post-Crunch Futures: A Mute Fiction Special
By Hari Kunzru, Benedict Seymour, and Laura Oldfield Ford

Fill Your Life With Win!
Top tips for lulzy living with Serena Mimsy-Borogrove, our resident teen success coach and lifestylist. By Hari Kunzru

2013
By Laura Olfield Ford

Creativity's Rainbow
By Benedict Seymour

Contents of this cluster

1. Editorial
2. Class War: The Game: The Movie
3. Crisis in California – Everything Touched by Capital Turns Toxic
4. The State Climate Camp's In
5. Upstairs Downstairs: From Intensity to Entitlement
6. Invisible Politics - An Introduction to Contemporary Communisation
7. London is a World Class City!
8. On the Post-City
9. Post-Crunch Futures: A Mute Fiction Special
10. Fill Your Life With Win!
11. 2013
12. Creativity's Rainbow