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Geraldine Goat – The Hard Way To Enlightenment

By Katrina Palmer 9 May 2012

Stephan Dillemuth's film installation, The Hard Way to Enlightenment, deployed a live goat in an immanent critique of privatisation and its ...

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Orgy of the Non/Self

By Josephine Berry Slater 1 May 2012

Yayoi Kusama’s current Tate Modern retrospective provokes Josephine Berry Slater to join the dots of the artist’s agonising and ecstatic constella...

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Bloomsbury Olympic

By Richard Braude 24 April 2012

As the 2012 London Olympics looms, construction and education – two poles of an economy of despair – are to meet in East London. Richard Braude dr...

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Minor Politics, Territory and Occupy

By Nick Thoburn 17 April 2012

In a talk given by Nick Thoburn at the School of Ideas this February, some of the Occupy movement’s most hopeful qualities were magnified through th...

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The Art of the Exegesis

By Danny Butt 10 April 2012

With art schools' integration into the university system, artists are required to present their work as written ‘exegesis’. Here, Danny Butt trace...

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The Mourning of Anti-Music

By Eugene Thacker 27 March 2012

Travelling to the outer reaches of vocal performance, a recent event featuring noise artists Junko and Keiji Haino opened up the anti-political space ...

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Refusing Conformity and Exclusion in Art Education

By Dean Kenning 22 March 2012

  While experimentation and activism often focus on art school education or education as art, there is a tendency to ignore the creepin...

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Mute Archive Move

By mute 27 June 2022

This June and July the Mute magazine archive is being moved from its current home in a shipping container a hundred miles north of London to a new smaller space in Berlin.

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Mute Archive Move

By mute 27 June 2022

#mutearchive Buy here: https://archive.metamute.org/  Contact: simon@metamute.org DM @MuteMagazine  This June and July the Mute mag...

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25 Artists and Cultural Workers Divest from Zabludowicz

By BDZ Group (hosted in solidarity by Mute Magazine) 27 July 2021

BDZ Press Release  On 26th July, twenty-five cultural workers announced their divestment and disaffiliation from Zabludowicz Art Projects, the...

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Violence and Other Non-Political Actions in the New Cycle of Revolt

By Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen 4 April 2021

Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen contrasts Judith Butler's democratic analysis of Occupy in Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly with the concept of pe...

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Cars, Riots & Black Liberation

By Shemon and Arturo 17 November 2020

The US saw some of the largest riots and protests in its history this year in response to the continuing police murder of black people – most recent...

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Eulogy for David Graeber

By Sophie Carapetian 19 October 2020

David Graeber, academic, anthropologist and revolutionary died on 4 September, 2020 in hospital in Venice. To mark his passing and celebrate his life ...

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Struggle against the Algorithm: A View from the Trenches at Reading University

By Anonymous 21 September 2020

The pay and jobs dispute at Reading University is just one battlefield amongst many, linked to a broad pattern of algorithmically and financially...

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Primer′

By Benedict Seymour 15 August 2020

Benedict Seymour's speculative fiction on the post-internet artworld in London dates from June 2013 but points forward to the apotheosis of Trump (dev...

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Adversarial Infrastructure: The Crimean Bridge

By Anna Engelhardt 7 July 2020

Covid-19 relentlessly exposes the destructive preconditions of capitalism today. But states which 'make work and let die' on a pandemic scale as they ...

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Three Class Struggles and a Funeral

By Danny Hayward 18 June 2020

In his review of the recent book Class Power on Zero-Hours (PM Press, 2020), Danny Hayward reflects with enthusiasm on AngryWorkers' attempt...

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Class Power on Zero-Hours (excerpt)

By AngryWorkers 18 June 2020

To coincide with Danny Hayward's review of Class Power on Zero-Hours we asked the AngryWorkers for permission to publish two excerpts from their recen...

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This isn't a Virus, it's a Time Machine

By Benedict Seymour 16 May 2020

In a 2015 London Review of Books essay Fredric Jameson briefly imagines the Bolshevik Party as a kind of time machine. The party is a device by mean...

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