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.

Matthew Cole explores the ways in which greater choice, and greater freedom might not actually be the things we need

During the last century, to be considered modern was to be seen as being at the forefront of progress and change. Eighty years ago the Modernists fashioned from it an entire movement. Yet increasingly we seem to have fallen out of love with our own modernity, fearing its inventions and distrusting its enticements. Adam Burbage considers where this distrust comes from, and what its implications are for our own culture