This double volume includes 'The value of forgery', Jonathan Hay; 'Affective operations of art and literature', Ernst van Alphen; 'Betty's Turn', Stephen Melville; 'Richard Serra in Germany', Magdalena Nieslony; 'Beheadings and massacres', Federico Navarrete; 'Pliny the Elder and the identity of Roman art', Francesco de Angelis; 'Between nature and artifice', Francesca Dell'Acqua; 'Narrative cartographies', Gerald Guest; 'The artist and the icon', Alexander Nagel; 'Preliminary thoughts on Piranesi and Vico', Erika Naginski; and, 'Portable ruins', Alina Payne.It also includes: 'Istanbul: The palimpsest city in search of its archi-text', Nebahat Avcioglu; 'The iconicity of Islamic calligraphy in Turkey', Irvin Cemil Schick; 'The Buddha's house', Kazi Khalid Ashraf; 'A flash of recognition into how not to be governed', Natasha Eaton; Hasegawa's fairy tales, 'Christine Guth; The paradox of the ethnographic superaltern', Anna Brzyski, and contributions to "Lectures, Documents and Discussions" by Karen Kurczyncki, Mary Dumett, Emmanuel Alloa, Francesco Pellizzi, and Boris Groys.