If desire is tragedy and love comedy, where does that leave pleasure? Aaron Schuster presents his thoughts on a life of pleasure, in art and beyond.

The ‘state of exception’ is a tool of power and turns out to be always more than the dominant paradigm of ruling.

Following the attacks in New York and Madrid his book State of Exception makes it possible to envisage a political understanding of how forms of government that suspend the law can be permanently institutionalized.

Europe’s great cities are being transformed into high-security experiments in survival.