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______________________________________________27 March 07 _

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Mistaken As Red

By Peter Suchin

With political art now celebrated in galleries and museums all over the
world what happens when practices tied to specific struggles and places
are institutionalised? At the recent retrospective of textbook political
artist, Loraine Leeson, Peter Suchin uncovers the remains of an earlier
discussion intitiated by Art & Language to propose a radical
reconsideration of Leeson’s art and the terms of the debate
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______________________________________________21 March 07 _

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State of Denial

By Martin Twomey

Having come full circle in half a century, today British citizens stand
on the brink of having their 'fundamental rights and freedoms' enshrined
in the plasticated chip of a compulsory ID card. But what, asks Martin
Twomey of the Hackney NO2ID Group, is this card for exactly and whose
interests does it serve?

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______________________________________________26 February 07 _

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Lost in Space
By Richard Hylton

Where Afrofuturism fused experimental music and the sci-fi imaginary to
probe a near future lived beyond the categories of race, the ICA’s
recent exhibition Alien Nation explored the nexus of sci-fi and art
through the lens of race – an approach that could only reinforce the
category

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______________________________________________17 January 07 _

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Scrying Stranger Aeons
By Cameron Bain

Suzanne Treister's art project and book Hexen 2039 investigates and
links a number of occult phenomena to the military industrial
entertainment complex. Cameron Bain examines the project and finds that
there are empirical reasons for the continuing popularity of mysticism.
Treister's approach, he writes, points not only to the surreal
foundations of contemporary consciousness but also to a materialist
study of power

http://www.metamute.org/en/Scrying-Stranger-Aeons

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What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate
By Ted Byfield

Last autumn’s conference, Architecture and Situated Technologies, at the
Villard House in New York sought to rescue technologists and architects
from their industry controlled and conceptually rigid engagement with
each other. With the current euphoria around situated or context
specific computing apparently creating new opportunities for dialogue,
Ted Byfield asks whether this intersection is really something new, or
whether architecture itself is not the ultimate situated technology

http://www.metamute.org/en/Architecture-and-Situated-Technologies

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Drowning by Numbers – The Non-Reproduction of New Orleans
By Benedict Seymour

After the actual hurricane that hit New Orleans in late August 2005,
came the second hurricane of neo-liberal looting. The vacuum left by the
evacuation of the working class population and the storm’s destruction
of infrastructure produced the dream conditions for economic
'restructuring'. This ‘disaster-catalysed primitive accumulation’,
argues Benedict Seymour, reveals in fast-forward the fire-fighting
strategy of a US economy in chronic decline

http://www.metamute.org/en/Drowning-by-Numbers

FROM OUR OPEN PUBLISHING PlATFORMS

NEWS&ANALYSIS:

From globalization to localization
By Stephen Roach

Morgan Stanley's Chief Economist creeps ever closer to acknlowledging
the implicit content of his 'bear market' line. In fact this time he
even includes a graphic purporting to map the quantitative 'battle
between labor and capital', before disingenuously diverting the question
into spurious terms like 'globalization and localization' and even more
oddly imagining the 'labor' side of the 'battle' as something fought by
'pro-labor' politicians like Prodi, Zapatero et al. Notably absent are
battle sites like Bangladeshi textiles, Chilean copper mines, etc.,
where elected representatives have nothing to add

http://www.metamute.org/en/From-globalization-to-localization

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The EU's post-industrial revolution
By James Woudhuysen

You don't have to acknowledge 'vision' as a meaningful category, let
alone one that can be 'insulted', to agree with James Woudhuysen that
European-level imposition of drastically reduced energy consumption
amounts to an aggressive austerity policy. Guess which class, as in
every other 'green' expression of market forces, gets to bear most of
the burden of 'a qualitative drop in everyday convenience, general
living standards and mass comfort'

http://www.metamute.org/en/The-EUs-post-industrial-revolution

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The Pottinger settlement
By Robert Neuwirth / Takebacktheland

Robert Neuwirth's urgently necessary 'Squattercity' draws attention to
the Takebacktheland occupation in Miami, where on the site of a
demolished block of cheap apartments the homeless are building and
defending the housing that the 'market' and the state will never
provide. As Neuwirth suggests, imagine if this supposedly 'third world'
phenomenon were to spread to New Orleans and...and...

http://www.metamute.org/en/The-Pottinger-settlement

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PUBLIC LIBRARY BITTORRENT TRACKER:

Midnight Notes Anthology
A complete archive of issues of pamphlets written by the seminal
Midnight Notes group of US autonomists
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PureDyne
A Dyne based GNU/Linux distribution for multi-media artists and
practitioners
http://publiclibrary.metamute.org:6969/stats.html?info_hash=0a34c9b565e6f10c01bd98556840cc7bc3127bd2

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Polly II a film by Anja Kirschner
A powerful counter-imaginary opposed to the fantasy visions of the
regenerated city (more info at www.supernumeraries.org)
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______________________________________________10 January 07 _

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What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate
By Ted Byfield

Last autumn’s conference, Architecture and Situated Technologies, at the
Villard House in New York sought to rescue technologists and architects
from their industry controlled and conceptually rigid engagement with
each other. With the current euphoria around situated or context
specific computing apparently creating new opportunities for dialogue,
Ted Byfield asks whether this intersection is really something new, or
whether architecture itself is not the ultimate situated technology

http://www.metamute.org/en/Architecture-and-Situated-Technologies

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Of Lammas Land and Olympic Dreams
By Anthony Iles

This extended report covers a demo held last December in Leyton against
one aspect of the collossal land-grab taking place as part of the London
Olympics, and is intended to put this struggle to save an historic
commons in the context of debate about the new enclosures taking place
globally

http://www.metamute.org/en/Of-Lammas-Land-and-Olympic-Dreams

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Drowning by Numbers – The Non-Reproduction of New Orleans
By Benedict Seymour

After the actual hurricane that hit New Orleans in late August 2005,
came the second hurricane of neo-liberal looting. The vacuum left by the
evacuation of the working class population and the storm’s destruction
of infrastructure produced the dream conditions for economic
'restructuring'. This ‘disaster-catalysed primitive accumulation’,
argues Benedict Seymour, reveals in fast-forward the fire-fighting
strategy of a US economy in chronic decline

http://www.metamute.org/en/Drowning-by-Numbers

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Pacific Revolutionaries
By Fabian Tompsett

This year’s prize for best long-titled left communist analysis of an
American literary classic goes hands down to Loren Goldner’s Herman
Melville: Between Charlemagne And The Antemosaic Cosmic Man – Race,
Class And The Crisis Of Bourgeois Ideology In An American Renaissance Writer

http://www.metamute.org/en/Pacific-Revolutionaries

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______________________________________________ 18 October 06_

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New Media, Rewired
By Jussi Parikka

Forming part of a recent media studies tendency to analyse the impact
media have in representing, and therefore also producing, the same
histories they exist within as 'denizens', Lisa Gitelman's 'Always
Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture' presents some
media historical 'remediations' of its own. Reviewed by Jussi Parikka

http://www.metamute.org/en/New-Media-Rewired

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First Cut is the Deepest
By Paul Helliwell

Free improvisation guitarist and theorist Derek Bailey could be
described as the Samuel Beckett of post-war music. Bailey moved
nohow-onward by means of a continually repeated negation of the
familiar, eschewing the idiomatic for the (almost) uncommodifiably New.
Ben Watson's biography of Bailey, published earlier this year,
celebrates the life and un-finishable works of an avant garde
anti-artist but, asks Paul Helliwell, do Bailey and Watson throw too
much musical baby out with the tonal bathwater? And where does the
increasingly venerable practice of free improvisation stand in relation
to modernism’s dialectics of the new today?

http://www.metamute.org/en/First-cut-is-the-deepest

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Extreme Makeover
By Merijn Oudenampsen

A new urban renewal initiative of historic proportions is underway in
Amsterdam. A considerable part of the city’s reserve of social housing
is being transformed into luxury apartments, lofts and maisonettes for
the growing numbers of 'creative economy' employees. Meanwhile the
waiting lists for social housing are being flooded by ex-occupants,
forced through renovation programmes to leave their houses and
neighbourhoods. In a re-working of a text originally published in the
Dutch language Flexmens Magazine, Merijn Oudenampsen describes a new
regime of urban renewal – the I Amsterdam model – where location has
become, quite literally, a brand

http://www.metamute.org/en/Extreme-Makeover

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When Wireless Dreams Come True
By Rob van Kranenburg

Waves, a recent exhibition and conference in Riga curated by RIXC and
Armin Medosch, tuned in to artistic engagements with the
electro-magnetic spectrum. By exploring the material, if imperceptible,
base of the information sphere, this event attempted to escape the
conventional fetishisation of message over medium. But here, Rob van
Kranenburg argues for a less esoteric, more abrasive confrontation with
the 'matrix'

http://www.metamute.org/en/When-Wireless-Dreams-Come-True

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______________________________________________ 20 September 06_

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The Factory Without Walls
By Brian Ashton

The mass worker isn't dead, s/he has just been reconfigured. Drawing on
personal experience and ongoing research, Brian Ashton argues that the
left needs to get its hydra-head around the global logistics industry
and offers a brief introduction to the complexities of networked production

http://www.metamute.org/en/Factory-Without-Walls

A full length version of Ashton's research into logistics and class
composition is now available in the News & Analysis section of this site

http://www.metamute.org/en/Logistics-Factory-Without-Walls

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Creation and Interest
By Jason Read

Peter Hallward's new book Out of this World: Deleuze and the Philosophy
of Creation constructs the French philosopher as a mystic whose ideas,
however inspiring, are politically useless. Jason Read, who has made his
own claims for Deleuze as an indispensable political thinker, welcomes
and contests this new approach

http://www.metamute.org/en/Creation-and-Interest

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Imagined Affinities? Benedict Anderson's Pre-History of Globalisation

By Esther Leslie

In his latest book, Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial
Imagination, Benedict Anderson advances his longstanding ambition to
rehabilitate the image of nationalism. Through a collaged history of the
late 19th century, Anderson forges uncanny connections between anarchism
and anti-colonial bourgeois nationalism. The interconnections between
these autonomous forces, and not Marxism's internationalism, supposedly
provide today's alter-globalisation movement with its pre-history. But,
asks Esther Leslie, how many get to share in this 'globalised sensibility'?

http://www.metamute.org/?q=en/Imagined-Affinities

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NEW IN MUTE'S OPEN PUBLISHING PUBLIC LIBRARY:

A Short History of Abahlali baseMjondolo, the Shack Dweller's Movement
by Abahlali baseMjondolo

The Abahlali baseMjondolo (Shack Dwellers) Movement began in Durban,
South Africa in 2005. Although it is overwhelmingly located in and
around Durban it is, in terms of the numbers of people mobilised, the
largest social movement in post-apartheid South Africa. Its originary
event was a road blockade organised from the Kennedy Road settlement in
protest at the sale, to a local industrialist, of a piece of nearby land
long promised to shack dwellers for housing.

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______________________________________________ 30 August 06_

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Imagined Affinities? Benedict Anderson's Pre-History of Globalisation

By Esther Leslie

In his latest book, Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial
Imagination, Benedict Anderson advances his longstanding ambition to
rehabilitate the image of nationalism. Through a collaged history of the
late 19th century, Anderson forges uncanny connections between anarchism
and anti-colonial bourgeois nationalism. The interconnections between
these autonomous forces, and not Marxism's internationalism, supposedly
provide today's alter-globalisation movement with its pre-history. But,
asks Esther Leslie, how many get to share in this 'globalised sensibility'?

http://www.metamute.org/?q=en/Imagined-Affinities

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AND RECENTLY ON OUR OPEN PUBLISHING PLATFORM, NEWS & ANALYSIS:

People's History of Iraq

By Stephen "Flint" Arthur (Baltimore NEFAC)

This review (posted by the author to the Aut-op-sy mailing list) of
People's History of Iraq: The Iraqi Communist Party, Workers' Movements,
and the Left 1924-2004 by Ilario Salucci, constitutes the beginnings of
an account of what has happened in Iraq in the past century in terms of
left-wing political organising. Both the review and the book are
intended to blow off the orientalism-tinted glasses most adopt when they
turn their attention towards the Middle East. Revealing the holes in the
book's analysis, the reviewer is ultimately interested not with the
extremely dodgy history and allegiances of the Iraqi Communist Party,
but rather those events, groups and forms of organising at its fringes
and therefore unfortunately also at the fringes of the review object -
these include the feminist and women's rights movement in Iraq, the
'shora' or workers' councils uprisings in 1991, the Iraqi unemployed
workers union, but also might include many other moments, of which, we
in the West will hopefully not remain ignorant much longer

http://www.metamute.org/?q=en/node/8280

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Chto delat - #13: Culture and Protest

By Chto delat

Timed to coincide with the G8 Summit in St Petersberg last month, Chto
delat have published a new issue of their newspaper. Members of the
group will hopefully be participating later this year in an online
Metamute discussion on protest culture and the politics of activism.
The workgroup Chto delat is happy to announce that there has been a
major update of its site. Please visit us at www.chtodelat.org

http://www.metamute.org/?q=en/node/8279

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