Crises tend to generate apocalyptic dreams and nightmares. Through a reappraisal of 20^th century anti-capitalist thought, Benjamin Noys urges us to critically re-think how such an apocalyptic tone operates within radical analyses of the current crisis

Ben Pritchett dives into the alphabet soup of Brian Rotman's Becoming Beside Ourselves and Joanna Zylinska's Bioethics in the Age of New Media and picks apart the jumbled relations between ethics, new media and subjectivity

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

When is a book about Deleuze, paradoxically, not a book about Deleuze? When it’s by Slavoj Zizek. Jean-Jacques Lecercle reviews the latest theory romp from the Slovenian philosophy king

Organs Without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences, Slavoj Zizek, London: Routledge, 2004

Melanie Gilligan casts a sceptical eye over Richard Doyle’s ‘postvital’ experiments

Wetwares: Experiments in Postvital Living, Richard Doyle, Minnesota Press, 2003

How does control exist after decentralisation? asks Alexander Galloway’s book Protocol. Mark Poster is still waiting for an answer

Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralisation, Alexander Galloway, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004

Anja Büchele on Jean-Jacques Lecercle's Deleuze and Language

Deleuze and Language, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

‘mythical people are realistic and realistic people are mythical’1

What is it that typifies and stymies organisational cultures, be they enterprising or oppositional? The repression of psychical multiplicity and alterity into the strait-jacket of the Self, argues Howard Slater