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Domino, no, no!

By Benedict Seymour 6 April 2014

The Domino sugar factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is  currently being torn down and replaced with massive condominiums. As it happens, these ...

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IC-98: Arkhipelagos

By Beaconsfield 3 April 2014

4 April – 7 June 2014 Wednesday – Saturday, 11am-5pm Preview: Friday 4 April 6.30-8.30pm Finnish-duo IC-98 return to Beaconsfield on a gr...

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Nuff Aura: Absolute Artwork Meets Absolute Desperation

By Benedict Seymour 28 March 2014

  [This little screed was written as a facebook post but seemed worth giving a minutely longer half life... It responds to this article: ...

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Protests in Bosnia and Herzegovina: live updates

By Balkanist and bhprotestfiles 10 February 2014

The Balkanist blog is a good place to start looking for reliable coverage of the recent protests in Bosnia and the region, this post collects recent u...

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STATION HOUSE OPERA: DISSOLVED

By Beaconsfield 6 February 2014

A brand new installation for performance   6-22 March 2014 Beaconsfield, 22 Newport St, Vauxhall, London, SE11 6AY Installation open ...

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Of Learned Ignorance

By Heartfield 8 January 2014

In his essay Being Dumb the poet Kenneth Goldsmith makes a very good case for what he calls 'Smart Dumb' - but this is an argument that 'Sma...

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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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