Mute Vol 2, No. 16 − Real Life Training
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 set of affects, a data-set within biopolitical capitalism. This recurrent demand to appear is both extracted and seduced out of us by the apparatuses of state and spectacle; the system of property and images; the simultaneous need to harness labour and manage the unemployed. In this issue we also look at the deeper shifts in capitalism which trigger the intensifying management of life; a crisis of abundance is brought on by industrial and technological developments converting the majority of the earth's inhabitants into a ‘surplus' population to be managed and ‘warehoused' in jails, workfare schemes or that open prison known as Web 2.0.
2010-06, ISSN 1356-7748-216 & ISBN 9781906496494
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On Edge
Stefan Szczelkun talks to artist Alexa Wright about how her work breaks down the self
Rumours of War
Paul Helliwell rhythmanalyses Steve Goodman's Sonic Warfare and the group work Noise and Capitalism
Artificial Scarcity in a World of Overproduction: An Escape that isn't
The 'production of innovation', write Sander, is no replacement for the production of value
Eliminating Labour:Aesthetic Economy in Harun Farocki
Benedict Seymour on devalorisation in a high-tech cinematic oeuvre
Artist's Project: The Wealth of Negations
by CVA Group
Clandestinity and Appearance
John Cunningham takes up the case of clendestinity and resistance in the age of biopolitics
Is the Brickburner Still the Same
Neinsager opens and shuts dissident writer and migrant labourer B.Traven's identity file
Casa Pound and the New Radical Right in Italy
The Moyote Project discusses the strange case of fascists imitating anarchists to popular effect
University Struggles at the End of the Edu-Deal
George Caffentzis pieces together an emerging plane of struggle
Illustrations
Alexa Wright, Harun Farocki, Mongrel
ISSN 1356-7748-21
ISBN 978-1-906496-49-4
Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
120 pages