Mute Vol 2, No. 5 − It's Not Easy being Green: The Climate Change Issue
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 change gives the developed world licence to check and restructure development in the South, impose austerity measures on domestic populations, or to break its own dependency on oil-producing nations that won't, despite military intervention, toe the neoliberal line. On the other hand, as capital pits whole regions against each other in the battle over development and control of energy resources, much of the left has pioneered (and recycles) the now dominant Malthusian moralism regarding behaviour modification and the need to limit consumption. If climate change is going to provide a focus for anti-capitalist struggle it must be seen for what it is − a problem of capitalism, not 'man' per se.
2007-04, ISSN 1356-7748-205 & ISBN 978190649614
FURTHER DESCRIPTION
Capital Climes
Will Barnes on the inhuman agent of global warming
Act Macro
James Woudhuysen on technological alternatives to green austerity
Climate Change Colonialism
Tim Forsyth and Zoe Young on the mechanisms of global climate change governance
Promised Lands
Kate Rich on corporate IT's bad impersonation of neo-commoning
Apocalypse And/Or Business as Usual
George Caffentzis plots the Bush Administration's green swerve
Heavy Opera
Anthony Iles reviews John Jordan and James Hewitt's climate change opera
Guttural Cultural
Howard Slater on the polyphonic vocal polyrhythms of Ghedalia Tazartes
Zombie Nation
Paul Helliwell argues that music in the 'Web 2.0' era is like the corpse of relational aesthetics
Mistaken As Red
Peter Suchin tries Art & Language's indictment of bourgeois political art on Lorraine Leeson's recent London retrospective
Take Me I'm Yours
Anthony Davies exposes the neo-liberal bottom line of 'progressive' cultural institutions
Expropriate, Accumulate, Financialise
Is the real problem neo-liberalism or capitalism? Ask Chris Wright and Samantha Alvarez
Illustrations
Nils Norman, The Chinchilla
ISSN 1356-7748
ISBN 978-1-906496-1-4
Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
124 pages