As the recent G20 demonstrations have demonstrated, technologies which allow us not only to see the other but to see them looking back at us, through their own cameras, have changed the rules of the game for contemporary conflict. Dr Andrew Hill unpicks this web of gazes against a backdrop of Government anit-terror advertising and How to Look Good Naked.

6 New Poems by Bridget Arsenault

Three new tracks plus an interview with Bristol based noise musician Greg Godwin – who, under the guises Dsic and Aut, spits out sublime shards of digital abstraction and waves of analog scuzz.

Steve Ely is an English poet who writes about America. In doing so, he seems to interest people who wouldn’t ordinarily be all that interested in contemporary English poetry. For the interested reader, Steve’s excellent poem sequence JerUSAlem is a fine…

She stood at Pentire and could not get their faces and whispers and body language out of her mind. Old coots. Old owls. Lost without her.
New short fiction from poet, novelist and regular Geometer contributor David Grubb.

Kim Cascone; composer, founder of the .microsound list and an influential voice in modern electronic music discusses ways of hearing and offers new routes away from the stage for contemporary music.

Three new poems from Caleb Klaces

Concluding our Art and Politics Issue we have extracts from Adam Burbage’s long poem, Slow Train Coming. Taking as its starting point the build-up to the war in Iraq, the poem seeks by way of cut-up and more conventional means to chart the emotional and intellectual history of the period, a period in which old distinctions between right and left have dissolved, and in which positions are increasingly polarised.

Kicking off our Art and Politics issue, Paul Nash interviews the artist Guy Denning.

As part of our Art and Politics issue, we are pleased to present Steve Ely’s poem sequence, The Visions of Vicki Weaver, which centres on the shooting in 1992 of white separatist Vicki Weaver during the so-called ‘Siege of Ruby Ridge’. A cause celebre amongst human rights activists, constitutionalists and the libertarian right, the incident has been cited as a motivation for the Oklahoma City bombing.