Mute Vol 2, No. 9 − Your Five A Day
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 management in contemporary Britain and beyond. Where once welfare was handed out in a relatively standardised form, it is now highly individualised, with far more intrusive assessments, data gathering and heavy conditions on the recipient than ever before. It is to be hoped that these universal injunctions and 'cures' can be turned on their heads, transforming the insistence on 'Your 5 a day' into the radical demand to be freely fed.
FURTHER DESCRIPTION
Falling for the Future
Iain Boal brings modernity's futuramas back down to earth
Citizens Banned?
Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony Iles review the AV Media Arts festival held in Newcastle
Crisis in the Visual System
Paul Helliwell argues the art world's favourite philosopher, Jacques Rancière, does have something to hide
Borders 2.0: Future, Tense
Bryan Finoki and Angela Mitropoulos present an incursion, in text and image, into the contemporary borderlands
Manufactured Scarcity
James Heartfield on Enron's pioneering of green capitalism through cutting production
Battle of All Mothers
Madame Tlank on welfare, surveillance and working class women
When Travesty Becomes Form
Alberto Duman contemplates the cyclical self-affirmation of the curator
llustrations
Dominik from WeLikeNiceThings, Nick Brooks, Adam Vass
ISSN 1356-7748-29
ISBN 978-1-906496-17-3
Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
104 pages
