The application of theory to the modern world

Better understood as a popular modernist collective, Test Dept made records pulsing with panic and were one of the last examples of post-punk

Hollywood’s recent taste for revolt

Re-evaluating modernist housing at Tensta Konsthall

Salvador Allende's attempt to create a 'socialist internet, decades ahead of its time'

From the economic crisis to fanaticism, three new publications explore the meaning of capital

Puppets, dolls and horror stories; Toy Story 3 and Thomas Ligotti’s new book

Four new dystopian sci-fi novels set in the UK

Eds. Maria Hlavajova, Sven Lütticken and Jill Winder (BAK, Utrecht, and post editions, Rotterdam, 2009)

Philosophy in 2009: The Invisible Committee; speculative realism; an all-star conference on communism; new books from Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek

David Sylvian (Samadhisound, 2009)

‘The Year of the Flood’ captures very well the way in which climate catastrophe is both inevitable and impossible for us think about

Bernard Szajner (LTM Recordings, 2009)

Steven Shaviro (MIT Press, Cambridge, 2009) / Graham Harman (Re.Press, Melbourne, 2009)

Judith Butler (Verso, London, 2009)

Roundhouse, London

A report from the recent ‘Speculative Realism and Speculative Materialism’ conference at the UWE, Bristol

Alain Badiou (Verso, London, 2009)

Various artists (Tempa, 2009)

Badiou, Rancière and Žižek lead an all-star cast of speakers at the ‘On the Idea of Communism’ conference at Birkbeck, London