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Mute Vol. 3, No. 4 - Slave to the Algorithm

By admin 13 April 2013

As the financial crisis fastens its grip ever tighter around the means of human and natural survival, the age of the algorithm has hit full stride. This phase-shift has been a long time coming of course, and was undoubtedly as much a cause of the crisis as its effect, with self-propelling algorithmic power replacing human labour and judgement and creating event fields far below the threshold of human perception and responsiveness.

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Slave to the Algorithm Talk

By Mute 16 May 2013

At last we have video documentation from Mute's night of talks, noise and music investigating the abstract power of algorithms and celebrating the lau...

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In the Junkyard of Wrecked Fictions

By Andrey Shental 14 May 2013

Artist and film-maker Hito Steyerl has been a key thinker of the relationship between the fragmentary landscape of global networked images and contemp...

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Good Old Avant-Garde

By Bill Roberts 7 May 2013

Does the institutional embrace of collaborative and interventionist art spell the end of the avant-gardist attack on art as a bourgeois individualist ...

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This Property is ConDemned

By Owen Hatherley 30 April 2013

What are the ConDems up to with their grim vision of class cleansed, jerrybuilt cities? Owen Hatherley pieces together recent urban austerity measures...

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50 Shades of Rape

By Hestia Peppe 23 April 2013

In his latest book, Stewart Home draws the comparison between the rape of unconscious victims and capitalism. But, asks Hestia Peppe, does this insigh...

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Keep Calm and Carrion: Two Funerals and a Reflection

By Benedict Seymour 18 April 2013

Some quick thoughts prompted by looking at images of St Paul's and Goldthorpe, the sites of two rather different funerals for Margaret Thatc...

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Street Writing Observatory

Featured in Mute Vol. 3, No. 2 - Politics my arse
By Mute All Stars 22 February 2012

A collective photo project by the Mute Allstars   Image: Anonymous Hackney Council Election Poster*, May 2006. Note that market-'social' hous...

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Connecting People Apart

By mute 3 February 2012

A free eBook reader compiled from the Mute magazine article archive for the Post-Media Lab, a new collaboration Mute is embarking on that will explore the following themes as part of the overall framework of the lab.

Digital Networks: Connecting People Apart, The Subsumption of Sociality, The Question of Organisation, Acting within Non-Human Ontologies

Download as ePub and Kindle, or HTML5 for the other types screen readers (text only) .

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Mute Vol. 3, No. 4 - Slave to the Algorithm

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By admin 13 April 2013

As the financial crisis fastens its grip ever tighter around the means of human and natural survival, the age of the algorithm has hit full stride. This phase-shift has been a long time coming of course, and was undoubtedly as much a cause of the crisis as its effect, with self-propelling algorithmic power replacing human labour and judgement and creating event fields far below the threshold of human perception and responsiveness.

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By mute 4 November 2009

A Mute Magazine Anthology of Cultural Politics after the Net ed. Josephine Berry Slater,  Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Michael Corris In late 1...

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