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The Mourning of Anti-Music

By Eugene Thacker 27 March 2012

Travelling to the outer reaches of vocal performance, a recent event featuring noise artists Junko and Keiji Haino opened up the anti-political space ...

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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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Event: Signal:Noise II

By Mute 13 January 2012

Signal:Noise II Friday 20 – Saturday 21 January 2012 The Showroom Gallery, 63 Penfold Street, London NW8 Introduction ...

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Mic check

By Benedict Seymour 14 December 2011

the decision about what to do next is being mic checked:

some people

just can't break

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Arab Revolts Blog #1: Notes on Rentier States and the Stalled Libyan Revolt

By L.S. 21 June 2011

In the first of a blog series aiming to deepen and politicise understandings of the revolts across the Arab world, L.S. kicks off with an anatomisatio...

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Mute Vol. 3, No. 2 - Politics my arse

By mute 17 February 2012

'Well, the first thing I want to say is, politics my arse' Issue 2 includes: cover art by Johnny Spencer * Alberto Toscano on logistics and anarchi...

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Radio Kebele May Show!

by BeTheMedia - various Isles alt media 16 May 2012

Author: radiokebele Holy Belatedness Batman! …well it wasn’t too late fortunately… heh. heh. This Show. WHOOP. Interview with Special guests- Ken and Boris disc... more

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By admin 5 January 2012

a special box set of Mute magazine back issues Original copies of nearly every issue* of Mute from 1994 to 2010 - a total of 45 issues spanning th...

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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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