reviews

Revolution at Point Zero

By Joshua Eichen 22 November 2012

A review of Silvia Federici's anthology, Revolution at Point Zero, by Joshua Eichen   In 2012, we all pay at least lip service to the entanglem...

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mute music

Listener As Operator (3)

By Howard Slater 20 November 2012

In its encouragement of a group expression that supports musicians to ‘play beyond themselves’ and to evolve singularities within a shared ‘rese...

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articles

Becoming Camwhore, Becoming Pizza

By Jennifer Chan, Rozsa Farkas, Ann Hirsch & Cadence Kinsey 8 November 2012

In the hot lava of social media flows the critical distance between performing and being a ‘somebody’, a subject type, seems to collapse, along wi...

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your posts

How Noam Chomsky’s World Works

By mute 5 November 2012

Noam Chomsky's political writings are extremely useful for any understanding of the crimes of US imperialism. But his scientific work, whose politi...

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articles

Catalysing Dissent

By Andrew Osborne and Inigo Wilkins 1 November 2012

The 2011 UK Riots were the inspiration for this article, although what can be said of the riots also holds for the sequential outbreak of protests and...

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articles

100% or Bust: Mute Crowdfunding Update - New incentives and video

By mute 1 November 2012

Mute Needs You! As you will now most likely know, Mute has embarked on a crowdfunding campaign for its 2013 contributor budget. We want to continue t...

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fifth column

Nothing is better than love: how not to repeat Weimar in Greece

By Benedict Seymour 27 October 2012

The following is a commentary on Paul Mason's important but flawed article on the situation in Greece: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-20105881 Paul...

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articles

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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articles

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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articles

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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your posts

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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articles

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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articles

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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articles

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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articles

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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articles

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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