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Glass Architecture – A Riotous Mythology

By Mark Crinson 9 February 2012

The act of smashing glass can reveal the material's most troubling quality: its transparency may invite us to look, but not necessarily to enter. Mark...

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Police Assault on Occupy Oakland: A First-Hand Account

By mute 31 January 2012

“The stated goal for the day was to “move-in” to a large, abandoned, building to turn it into a social and political center. It is a long vacant...

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Adventures in the Sausage Factory: A Cursory Overview of UK University Struggles, November 2010 – July 2011

By Danny Hayward 25 January 2012

Nearly a year after the attenuation of a wave of further and higher education struggles against state-led ‘decomposition’, Danny Hayward looks bac...

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Philosophical Doomcore

By Eugene Thacker 24 January 2012

  Objectively pessimistic or just plain grouchy? Schopenhauer’s ethics, which threw out positive conceptions of freedom and the human will, mi...

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Salt - what it's worth

By Escalate Collective 24 January 2012

SALT January 2012 After too many months of preparation, escalate collective’s new text SALT is available to download! This piece, more extensi...

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Media Lab Culture in the UK

By Charlotte Frost 24 January 2012

Download Media Lab Culture in Word format or PDF format. http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/our-priorities-2011-15/digital-innovation/digital-r...

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arab revolts column

Hanging by a Thread: Class, Corruption and Precarity in Tunisia

By L.S. 17 January 2012

Looking back beyond the events that triggered Tunisia’s overthrow of President Ben Ali, the systemic corruption of the state’s numerous officials ...

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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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