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.

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

Increasingly it can seem that the separation of the civil and military spheres is being eroded by the direct exposure of civilians to both acts of terrorism and images of those same acts. At the same time new technologies such as camera phones put the means of representation in the hands of civilians. David Crawford discusses what role art might play under these new conditions.

Continuing our Arts and Politics issue, Brian Butler examines the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay. Finlay died in 2006, leaving behind a body of work that uses war iconography to question the ability of art and artists to work outside of the conflicts and upheavals of their time.

In the final installment of our Arts and Politics Issue, James Wyness discusses the political nature of Sound art.

Welcome to our Art and Politics Issue

Issue Introduction
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New writing from Luke Smith, with illustrations by Alice Fletcher

A cartoon for, lover’s of Lynne Truss.