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Mute Vol 2, No. 16 − Real Life Training

By mute 1 June 2010

In this issue of Mute we look at the systemic requirement to appear, to have an identity, to become intelligible - as an individual, a face, a body, a...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 15 − Grey Goo Grimoire

By mute 1 April 2010

'Grey Goo’ is a hypothetical end-of-the-world scenario involving molecular nano-technology in which out-of-control self-replicating robots consume a...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 14 − Disorder/Colony/Collapse

By mute 1 December 2009

Whether seen as the ultimate capitalists, Buddhists or communards, bees elicit fantasies and fears of social productivity and crisis by turns. This is...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 13 − Out of Time

By mute 1 September 2009

In this issue of Mute there is a generalised refusal to have our selves, in the widest sense of the word, put to work. As we start to see the real rep...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 12 − The Creative City in Ruins

By mute 1 June 2009

Post-Fordist State planners, developers, and their entrepreneurial service arm have debased the meaning of ‘creativity’ to a shallow pretext for t...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 11 − Exhuming The Human

By mute 1 March 2009

In this issue of Mute we revisit the question of ‘the human’ in the age of biopolitics. What do philosophers, activists and ‘pro-revolutionaries...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 10 − We Don't Need Another Hero

By mute 1 October 2008

The state is pouring billions into propping up the collapsing financial sector, but who is going to take care of the rest of us? Between Hollywood’s...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 9 − Your Five A Day

By mute 1 July 2008

The ubiquitous injunction to consume 'Your 5 a day' quota of fruit and vegetables seems to stand in for a whole governmental ideology of population ma...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 8 − Zero Critical Content/No Added Aesthetics

By mute 1 April 2008

With investment in stocks and property now inducing ambient neurasthenia, mainstream investors are allegedly turning to 'alternative investments' like...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 7 − Show Invisibles? Migration/Data/Work

By mute 1 December 2007

We are living through an intensification of citizens’, and non-citizens’, visibility to capital. Database convergence, states of emergency and poi...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 6 − Living In A Bubble: Credit, Debt & Crisis

By mute 1 September 2007

In this issue of Mute we look at the cultural, political and social costs of an era of debt-backed boom now showing signs of busting. Our contributors...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 5 − It's Not East being Green: The Climate Change Issue

By mute 1 April 2007

Rather than the ultimate causes of global warming, our focus in this issue is the way its spectre is put to work by the developed world. Climate chang...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 4 − Web 2.0 Man's Best Friendster

By mute 1 January 2007

Web 2.0’s democratisation of media produces a wealth of new perspectives. Those formerly excluded from the public sphere have the chance to make the...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 3 − Naked Cities: Struggle in the Global Slums

By mute 1 October 2006

According to UN research data, by 2030 half of the world's population will be living in slums. Meanwhile, in Durban's Kennedy Road settlement resident...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 2 − Dis-Integrating Multiculturalism

By mute 1 June 2006

Since the advent of multiculturalism in the 1970s, the redefinition of race in cultural terms has gone hand in hand with an official discourse of resp...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 1 − Underneath The Knowledge Commons

By mute 1 December 2005

A struggle is ensuing to produce and protect what is being called the Knowledge Commons in defiance of the latter day regime of enclosures around know...

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