Anxious subjects are also docile and self-absorbed subjects. The neoliberal state's production of generalised anxiety through non-stop risk preemption and contingency planning produces subjects that fit perfectly with the needs of capital – writes Mark Neocleous. This is the concluding article to Mute's short series on surveillance, national security and logistics-driven production

In the second contribution to a group of articles on logistics, workplace surveillance and national security, Brian Ashton zooms in on the microscopic technologies surveilling and shaping working lives

You already have zero privacy. Get over it. – Scott McNally, Chief Executive of Sun Microsystems1

'Sabotage the social machine'. 'Incinerate the documents!'. In the first contribution to a group of articles on logistics, workplace surveillance and national security, Alberto Toscano examines the anti-urbanist presuppositions of insurrectionary anarchism, speculating on how the catastrophic destiny of certain technological innovations might instead be turned to different ends

Is salvagepunk sci-fi with left politics? Laptops with brass trimmings? Anything that looks kind of like Mad Max? At a recent event in London China Miéville and Evan Calder Williams discussed the term, its long pasts, its cursed present, and its uncertain future.  Camera by Hamish Heartnell. Sound by Rachel Baker and video Hamish Hartnell.

The phone-hacking scandal hasn't only revealed the true sleaziness of Britain's establishment, but also the resounding hollowness of a post-ideological elite held together by little more than self-interest - writes James Heartfield

• 60 Metropolitan Police officers have widened their investigation of News International to take in the rest of the national press.

All over the world, the capitalist states are taking austerity measures to slow the growth of their debts. It is obvious that this policy, since it slows consumption, can't in itself sustain the growth required for capital accumulation. Where, then, can the necessary economic stimulus come from? For lack of alternatives, eyes are turning eastward. It seems that history, the supreme ironist, has chosen ‘communist' China as global capitalism's saviour

What Crisis?

Two recent books focusing on the Situationist International, Expect Anything Fear Nothing and The Beach Beneath the Street, salvage the plurality of the group's activities, laying an emphasis on art, friendship and life praxis, rather than the usual theory and splits. Review by Christopher Collier