'Double Negative Feedback' expresses the hope that the chaos unleashed by the cybernetic loops

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...