Featured in this issue:

• Franco "Bifo" Berardi on the European uprising of 2011
• Gustavo Beck on the psychic economy of Occupy
• Micah White on Pussy Riot, and Mexico's Blue Revolution
• 5 G8 leaders fishing for a hook
• An excerpt from Slavoj Žižek's The Year of Dreaming Dangerously
• Liu Xiaobo, reflecting on Tiananmen Square from prison
• Nathan Gardels on the Germanic soul vs. the Italian volksgeist
• andrea bennett on power, vulnerability and America's political climate
• Darren Fleet on the God particle