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Distinguishing friend from foe

Antti Kauppinen (TCD): What Is Wrong With Economic Inequality? From Social Research, a special issue on The Body and the State: How the State Controls and Protects the Body. From Archaeology, a look at the top 10 discoveries of 2011. How to break Murphy's Law: The introduction of verification and checking procedures can improve structural safety and performance and so prevent the application of the "law". From LRB, Slavoj Zizek on the revolt of the salaried bourgeoisie. His ascent to cultural superstardom has been fuelled by his comic talent, but jokes are a serious business for Slavoj Zizek. Mat Callahan on distinguishing friend from foe in the intellectual property debate. Jacques Verges, lawyer who seeks out and associates with nazis and antisemites and downplayed the horrors of the Holocaust to defend a Nazi war criminal, has been invited to take part in a public event at the University of London. Dialectic of Counter-Enlightenment: Martin Jay on the Frankfurt School as scapegoat of the lunatic fringe. A scientist has dreams filled with carrots screaming, crying and begging to die.