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Children of the Grave vs Moloch

By Cameron Bain 13 January 2012

The exhibition, Home of Metal, celebrates forty years of heavy metal music while foregrounding Birmingham’s industrial past. In an act of ‘dedicat...

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La Jetée’s Spiral

By Benedict Seymour 5 January 2012

The image's mediation of the past is far from nostalgically comforting, writes Benedict Seymour in his review of Les Marques Aveugles at the Centre d'...

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Trading Futures, Consolidating Student Debt

By Angela Mitropoulos 20 December 2011

With a mass default on US student debt threatening to create the next subprime crisis, Angela Mitropoulos dissects the pious injunction to ‘live within ones means', reminding us that to do so has always implied the back-breaking, often immeasurable work of others.

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Stupid Regulators and Greedy Financiers or Business as Usual?

By Chris Wright 13 December 2011

As the occupy movement in the US this week shifts its attention from the shiny crystallisations of high finance to the hubs of material circulation, C...

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The Illegitimacy of Demands

By Dimitra Kotouza 7 December 2011

With demands over the wage and welfare in austerity Greece deemed illegitimate because unaffordable, what shape can struggle take? Dimitra Kotouza see...

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Style Without Subversion

By Gail Day 29 November 2011

The V&A’s Postmodernism exhibition acted like an industrial trawler, disembedding three decades of cultural artefacts from their diverse ecologi...

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FTH: The Savage and Beyond

By Howard Slater 22 November 2011

Howard Slater grasps the August riots as the appearance of an ‘unrecognisable demos’ which challenges the very ability of capitalist democracy to ...

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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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