Mute Vol 2, No. 8 − Zero Critical Content/No Added Aesthetics
With investment in stocks and property now inducing ambient neurasthenia, mainstream investors are allegedly turning to 'alternative investments' like wine and art, not to mention gold. Although art and wine were considered riskier than property in the pre-credit-crunch era, according to one recent article they are now regarded as safer than bricks and mortar. If this appears to spell good times ahead for the contemporary art market, further inspection reveals that a new breed of fund manager specialising in this asset class is looking to 'strip out the risk' by focusing on established artists − or wines. In other words, cultural conservatism will be (even more) the order of the day.
FURTHER DESCRIPTION
All Problems of Notation Will be Solved by the Masses
Simon Yuill on musical code making and breaking from Sun Ra to free software
Pedagogy of Human Capital
Stewart Martin on the post-Fordist crisis of progressive education
Art Stripped Bare by the Post-Autonomists, Even
John Cunningham sizes up Antonio Negri's aesthetics at Tate Britain's Art & Immaterial Labour conference
Artist's Project: Staabucks Fukkee is Your Enemy
by David Burrows and Simon O'Sullivan, Plastique Fantastique
Blurred Boundaries: Sport, Art & Activity
Benedict Seymour on the convergence of art and sport
Anti-Viruses and Underground Monuments
Dimitry Vorobyev and Thomas Campbell on carnivalesque anti-regeneration campaigns in St Petersburg
The Immaterial Aristocracy of the Internet
Harry Halpin reveals the human agents who pull the web's strings
Illustrations
David Burrows & Simon O'Sullivan/Plastique Fantastique, Theo Michael
ISSN 1356-7748-28
ISBN 978-1-906496-12-8
Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
120 pages
