Ceasefire's Terence Elliott-Cooper reports from today's demonstration at the US embassy in London, demanding justice for Trayvon Martin.
In the second of his series of essays on Baudrillard, Andrew Robinson examines how the French thinker saw 'symbolic exchange' giving way to capitalist alienation, and discusses Baudrillard's intriguing proposition that alienation stems from the social exclusion of death.
In the second of his essays on "Screening Thought" Paul Taylor explores the wider constraints imposed on serious thinking by the media. Despite the problems caused by Zizek's popularity, his celebrity-intellectual persona still retains an important aspect of “the return of the repressed” - abstract thought's stubborn survival in a heavily mediated age.