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one sixth of Mute's ensemble music column covering sonic adventures across genres and time.

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Mute Vol 2 #16 Editorial content | Vol II
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 21 July, 2010 - 10:09

In this issue of Mute we look at the systemic requirement to appear, to have an identity, to become intelligible - as an individual, a face, a body, a set of affects, a data-set within biopolitical capitalism.


No More Poodles II: Bogue versus Vogue Editorial content | Mute Music
Submitted by admin on Wednesday, 1 September, 2010 - 12:34
Ben Watson

In the second installment of his music column, Ben Watson wages a war of social being against the hip priests of consensus reality

 

 

subject: Dada | Fluxus | Music theory | Poetry

Occultural Studies 1.0: Black Meta Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by admin on Tuesday, 24 August, 2010 - 11:31
Eugene Thacker

Increasingly DIY and nihilistic, it's not surprising that contemporary philosophy is drawn to the untilled fields of undead subculture. Recent book, Hideous Gnosis, unleashes a bloodthirsty plague of para-academic commentary upon Black Metal, but, asks contributor Eugene Thacker, ‘how to talk about a music that refuses to be talked about?’

 


Politics here is death Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Monday, 16 August, 2010 - 07:54
Anthony Iles

For one week the Psychogeophysical Summit merged renegade earth science, geekery and subjective mapping. Accompanied by Silje Hyenes Lysne, waving a magical video wand, remote reviewer Anthony Iles scryed what he could

Video: The Psychogeophysical Summit London | 2-7 August 2010, a Mute and BLIP co-production.


Music is the Crime that Contains All Others Editorial content | Mute Music
Submitted by admin on Wednesday, 4 August, 2010 - 16:53
Demetra Kotouza

In this month's music column Demetra Kotouza plucks rebetiko, music of the dangerous classes in Greece, from the stifling assumptions of its detractors and defenders

 

subject: Immigration | Music

Coma: The Art of Unconsciousness Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by admin on Tuesday, 3 August, 2010 - 16:51
Stephen Barber

Pierre Guyotat's books break down language, bodies and the self to stage an estranged eternal present. Stephen Barber sifts through Guyotat's extraordinary history and prises apart the pages of his most recent work

 


Creation Myth Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by admin on Wednesday, 28 July, 2010 - 11:54
Marina Vishmidt

This March at Central Saint Martins, teachers and students from a seminal '60s/'70s experiment in art education gathered to reconsider the past in the light of today's crisis-ridden academy.


Welcome to the Big Society! Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Saturday, 24 July, 2010 - 04:13
Benedict Seymour

The first in an irregular series of Mute columns kicks off with some reflections on a very special week for the UK and its 'plabour' pool


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