Editorial

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

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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 ent...

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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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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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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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Agit Disco

By mute 30 November 2011

Agit Disco collects the playlists of its 23 writers to tell the story of how music has politically influenced and inspired them. The book provides a multi-genre survey of political musics, from a wide range of viewpoints, that goes beyond protest songs into the darker hinterlands of musical meaning.

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Anomie/ Bonhomie & Other Writings

By mute 30 November 2011

In this, his long awaited first book, Howard Slater extemporizes around what Walter Benjamin could have meant by the phrase 'affective classes'. Rathe...

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Eco-activist group, Climate Rush, has covered the pavement outside Shell’s UK headquarters with anti-oil slogans. Written in molasses, the stencils read: ‘£18bn profits last year, £0 spent on renewables. You can be sure ... more