'Walkabout' a poem submitted by Michael Hampton would have fitted excellently with the collection of verse published as part of our recent issue on credit, debt and financial crisis. As a late arrival it joins the site here and as part of our Ongoing accumulation of fiscal verse 

Walkabout

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As promised, Davis rolls out the opposite polarity to Planet of Slums: the inverted slum or gated Emirate.  His description bristles with empirical insight, but the rhetorical antithesis between the 'global slum' (analysed from an 'objective' distance) and gilded/fortified hyperluxury (apparently experienced firsthand) remains problematic, especially as Davis is admirably insistent on the antislum's dependence on cheap indentured labour inside it. 

Speaks for itself, in devastating earnest

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Peter Carty examines two conflicting strategies in contemporary psychogeography and asks whether rules and regulations or radical subjectivity is the way forward

Mikhail Epstein’s essay ‘Charms of Entropy and New Sentimentality’ shoehorns the memory of the Russian poet Venedikt Erofeev (1938-1990) into a simultaneously deconstructive and annunciatory treatise on mythmaking and historical times - past, present and future. In the process, he tells us more about contemporary myths of subject formation, but who are we to complain?

'I've got squirting glue out of my hands that gets people. I've got lines the come out of my eyes
special eyes that lines come out of and poke people and make a blast.......' short fiction by Matt Fuller

A mixed crowd of heavy-coated academics and younger and hipper things assembled to hear psychogeographic shaman Iain Sinclair hold forth.

Mike Sperlinger retrieves a gem from London's Pandemonium Festival, Rainer Komers short film B224