In this week's magazine Should you bother to vote?

30 October 2013

Observations
Columns
- Laurie Penny on everyday surveillance: Why I was afraid to take a picture in New York
  Power is about who gets to do the watching and who has to put up with being watched.
  By Laurie Penny
Critics
- Snake Dance by Patrick Marnham: The self that is known
  Under the care of the psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin, Warburg was presented with a challenge: if he could successfully deliver a lecture to an invited audience of medical staff, patients and friends, he would be released.
  By Will Self
Backpages
- Will Self: How to let yourself become part of LA’s autopia
  In all civilised cultures there are patterns of social conformity that act to align the wayward individual with her conformist fellows as invisibly but irresistibly as magnetic waves arrange iron filings around a lodestone.
  By Will Self

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