Featuring articles by Anthony Davies, Paul Helliwell, Howard Slater and Peter Suchin,and a special section on climate change andcapital with texts by Will Bar

Web 2.0’s democratisation of media produces a wealth of new perspectives. Those formerly excluded from the public sphere have the chance to make their voices heard. But this wave of participation is as important for busines as it is for the newly included.

According to UN research data, by 2030 half of the world's population will be living in slums. Meanwhile, in Durban's Kennedy Road settlement residents risk arrest and police violence in their struggle for toilets and drinking water.

Since the advent of multiculturalism in the 1970s, the redefinition of race in cultural terms has gone hand in hand with an official discourse of respect for cultur

A struggle is ensuing to produce and protect what is being called the Knowledge Commons in defiance of the latter day regime of enclosures around knowledge and informational goods.

This Reader collects together texts on Precariousness that first appeared in Mute magazine issues 29 (January 2005) and 28 (August 2004) with writing on the politics of precarity from a number of other sources.

Including: Anthony Davies on art, corporations and activism, Simon Pope on locative media, Gregory Sholette on the art group REPOhistory and gentrification in Manhattan, Tiziana Terranova’s Network Culture, JJ King on the future of WIPO, Mark Crinson on art and urban histor

Including: Lutham Blissett on gender, networks and the PGA conference in Serbia; Richard Wright on the history of debates in computer art; the Melancholic Troglodytes on Iranian Cinema; Kolinko's enquiry into call centre work; Richard Barbrook on cold war technology and co

Including: Zoe Young on Polish agribusiness; Peter Drahos and John Braithwaite on America's strategic use of bilateralism; Harry Potter on the Wikipedia; Sebastian Olma on Peter Lynds' theory of time; Ruth Maclennan on television and science; Betti Marenko and Miriam S

Including: Peter Suchin on Roland Barthes; Matt Locke on FACT; Conrad Herold on the FTAA and class war; Shuddhabrata Sengupta on Surveillance in India; Alan Toner on WSIS; Simon Ford on Gustav Metzger; the London Particular on regeneration in Hackney; Matthew Fuller on Relati

Including: JJ King on the European Social Forum, Mark Crinson on Manchester's new Urbis museum, Maria Fernandez and Matthew Hyland on Documenta 11, Horacio Tarcus on the political crisis in Argentina, Heath Bunting & Kate rich in conversation with Matt Jones, Neil Mul

Including: Pit Schultz and Boris Groendahl on hacking, Lisa Haskel on Swansong TV, Mikkel Bolt on Counterrevolutionary times in Denmark, Florian Schneider on the No Border Network, Brian Holmes on art in the age of the flexible personality and virtual class, Andrew Goffey on the