Contains the first translation of Jean-Philippe Toussaint's work. This book includes two articles on photography, a photo-essay on Iranian exiles, and articles on Gieogio Agamben, semiology and the history of humanitarianism.

This year marks twenty years of new formations, two decades over which the journal has resolutely maintained its position that the spheres of culture, theory and politics are always in dialogue. The issue contains the first translation of Jean-Philippe Toussaint's work. It includes two articles on photography, a photo-essay on Iranian exiles, and articles on Gieogio Agamben, semiology and the history of humanitarianism.

Contents:David Glover and Scott Mccracken EditorialJean-Philippe Toussaint Zidane's MelancholyDavid Macey Un coup de Boule N'Abolira jamais A...Timothy Bewes 'Form Resists Him ':The event of Zidane's MelancholyThangam Ravindranathan The Song f ZidanePeter Buse Photography Degree Zero: Cultural History of the Polaroid ImageGillian Rose Seeing Beyond the Spectacle: London 7 July 2005Mitra Tabrizian Border - Photo ProjectPaul Cobley Semio-Ethics and anti-HumanismSimon Morgan Wortham Law of friendship: Derrida and AgambenMaisaa Youssef Peace Material: Giorgio Agamben and The Israeli Palestinian Peace AccordsBertrand Taithe Horror, Abjection and Compassion: From Dunant to Compassion FatigueREVIEWSMatt ffytche The Sleep of ReasonGurminder K. Bhambra Context MattersPeter SjA lyst-Jackson A Transcultural Modernity?