A recent conference at Birkbeck gathered together philosophers to discuss the past, present and, more importantly, the possible future of communism. Paul Graham takes a bird's eye view of proceedings

Peter Hallward's new book  Out of this World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation constructs the French philosopher as a mystic whose ideas, however inspiring, are politically useless. Jason Read, who has made his own claims for Deleuze as an indispensable political thinker, welcomes and contests this new approach

Since the late 80s, Lettre International, the 'European Magazine for Culture', has represented a network of independent magazines from a variety of cities, including Madrid, Rome, Bucharest and Budapest - all of which work on a file sharing basis.

In the aftermath of Donna Haraway‘s seminal ‘Cyborg Manifesto’ (1985), cyberfeminism emerged as a critical fictional platform to weave nonlinear connections between machines and women.

Brian Dillon reviews Hatred of Capitalism

Henri Bergson (1859-1941), a French philosopher highly influential in the first half of the 20th century, proposed a dramatic new way of thinking about time and duration that took into account mathematics, psychology and evolution. Keith Ansell Pearson’s new book on Bergson could also be read as a Bergsonian introduction to Deleuze. The opening paragraph cites Deleuze as its starting point and Pearson makes continual reference to his work throughout.

Steve Goodman reviews 'African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design' by Ron Eglash