A hunger strike is a political act. It is, more specifically, the political act of someone whose voice has been excluded from the political realm.

The recent revelations in the Guardian by Glenn Greenwald and his colleagues about the mass surveillance operations of the US intelligence community (IC) have brought unusual attention to government activities that typically operate in conditions of extreme secrecy.

Palestine should not be seen as a gimmick, a virtual state that exists only on the Internet or on Facebook. It is gradually becoming recognized as a real state by the Palestinians and the international community. Palestinians may see this as a victory in their fight to preserve their national identity, even if the geographical boundaries of the state have yet to be determined.

Historically, colonial settlers followed ‘divide and rule’ strategies to carve up the world based on resources, ignoring native socio-economic and cultural linkages to their lands. ‘B/order/ology’ (Houtum, 2010) cannot be entirely understood by ignoring European colonial historiography.

This book, appropriately enough, offers a linguistic challenge. Which preposition is correct: is this a book on, by, for, or toward Gunnar Olsson? Is it amidst, between or outside him? As these most spatial of relational words suggest, there are a variety of ways of conceiving of the work of Gunnar Olsson, but no single way of summing it up. As we shall see, prepositions will reappear in his work.

On 9 May 2013 the iconic ‘Keeling Curve’ measured an average of over 400 ppm CO2 through the day. A symbolic threshold was crossed, that might not matter precisely in ecological terms, but which matters greatly in terms of contemporary global politics. It matters not only in terms of climate change but as a symbolic marker of the larger transformations underway, processes that now frequently invoke discussions in terms of the putative new geological epoch of the Anthropocene.

A frequent observation is that in the post-9/11 U.S., the police are becoming increasingly militarized, adopting military strategies, tactics and technologies to monitor the citizenry and control crime and disorder, and that this newly militarized policing poses a formidable threat to democracy. Certainly, a question at the heart of the relationship between the military and the domestic police force in modern democracies concerns the tenuousness of the distinction between them.

Drawing together themes from "Bubbles", "Globes" (Globen) and the final volume "Foam" (Schäume), Sloterdijk offered, in presentation and text alike, a litany of spheres, of enclosures, domes, atmospheres, and dwellings, which in his conclusion he claimed as nothing less than an extension of Heidegger’s "Being and Time", worked over as "Being and Space". In this reflection we discuss several important themes emerging from his presentation.

A very unusual thing happened on February 12th in Athens: the Greek capital city went up in flames. This commentary attempts to explain how the concentration of collective violence in Athens emerged and how this “violence equilibrium” that it created was interlaced with the post-dictatorial regime as a whole.

One might assume that the book would proceed to discuss the evolution of geographic information systems, which has grown in sophistication in recent years, both in the quality of its analytical capabilities, as well as in its representational qualities. The book’s focus is not this, however, instead focusing on a small group of design professionals who have worked with new capabilities in information graphics to experiment with ways of interpreting the complexities of contemporary landscapes.