Since there is no centralised events area, I'm adding an article here to help people keep track of Mute's rapidly expanding events programme as well as documentation of previous events. Check the front page for updates
Loren Goldner - Fictitious Capital and Today's Global Crisis
Tuesday January 22nd 2008, 7pm – The Whitechapel Centre
Info: http://www.metamute.org/en/Three-Talks-by-Loren-Goldner
Documentation: http://blip.tv/file/667781
Feeding Frenzy: Food, Fuel and Finance
1 July, 2008 at 7pm - The Church House, Fletcher St, London E1
Info: http://www.metamute.org/en/feeding_frenzy_debate_continued
Documentation: http://www.archive.org/details/ff_mute_01
THE ASSAULT ON CULTURE: A Mute Magazine talk on privatisation and critical artistic practice
Sunday 3 August 2008 3-5pm, Upstairs at Publish And Be Damned self-publishing fair, Rochelle School, London E2
Info: http://www.metamute.org/en/content/the_assault_on_culture_a_mute_magazine_talk_on_privatisation_and_critical_artistic_practice
Crunch Time: A New Wave of Struggles?
18 October, 5-6pm Lecture Room 1 Anarchist Bookfair 2008, Queen Mary & Westfield College, London E1
Info: http://www.metamute.org/en/content/crunch_time_a_new_wave_of_struggles
Forever Blowing Bubbles?
(Writer) Fabian Tompsett and (Historian) Peter Linebaugh will guide a tour around the City relating the contemporary financial crisis to those of previous eras (such as the 1720 South Sea Bubble), using the urban fabric as text
12th November, 2008, 3-5pm. Meet 3pm in front of Royal Exchange EC1
Info: http://www.metamute.org/en/content/mute_s_november_events_programme_peter_linebaugh_fabian_tompsett_hillel_ticktin
THE ASSAULT ON CULTURE II
Glasgow - Sat 15 Nov
Variant continue the exploration of the perils and opportunities for critical cultural activity in neoliberalising institutions.
screening: CAN DIALECTICS BREAK BRICKS?
Part of 'Moot-Points : Exercise in Self-Organisation, Discourse and Collaboration', Transmission Gallery
Hillel Ticktin - Capitalist Decline, Financial Crisis & Revolutionary Prospects
Saturday 29 November, 4pm The Whitechapel Centre, London E1
Info: http://www.metamute.org/en/content/mute_s_november_events_programme_peter_linebaugh_fabian_tompsett_hillel_ticktin
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