Stephan Dillemuth's film installation, The Hard Way to Enlightenment, deployed a live goat in an immanent critique of privatisation and its implications for art, research and education. Geraldine has since slipped her collar to appear in this short story by Katrina Palmer satirising the apparently limitless masochism of the contemporary artist

October

According to the art critic and theorist Boris Groys, philosophy may have met its match in a counter-tradition of modern ‘antiphilosophy.’ Introduction to Antiphilosophy marshals such thinkers as Benjamin, Nietzsche and Derrida in an attempt to antagonise standard philosophical practice. Eleven essays explore separate figures in turn, with the project’s rationale made explicit in an extended preface and prologue.

Yayoi Kusama’s current Tate Modern retrospective provokes Josephine Berry Slater to join the dots of the artist’s agonising and ecstatic constellation of obliteration and multiplication

As the 2012 London Olympics looms, construction and education – two poles of an economy of despair – are to meet in East London. Richard B draws out the unlikely connections in-the-making between Bloomsbury and Stratford