M | U | T | E | __ rrrrrread it! ______________________________________________ 03 February 06_ OUT NOW ON METAMUTE.ORG: * Context is the New Pretext By Finn Smith Behind the book's attempts to discuss a loose tendency in current art practice, Finn Smith detects in Contemporary Art from Studio to Situation an effort to homogenise and reduce to a market friendly genre art that takes social relations as its subject and material. This discursive homogenisation abounds even while this recent publication, edited by Claire Doherty, insists on the fragmentary effects of art's commited engagement with context and communities http://www.metamute.org/en/Context-the-New-Pretext * Remnants of Democracy By Anthony Iles In their recent blockbuster show and doorstopper book Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy, Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel describe a horizontalised network of relations between people and things in which nothing can nor should be exluded from (political) representation. But, argues Anthony Iles, in seeking to universally include the excluded, they fail to allow for the negation of representational politics that such outsiders provoke. http://www.metamute.org/en/Remnants-of-Democracy * Survival Scrapbooks By Simon Yuill The Survival Scrapbooks are a series of six books published in the early-1970s covering different aspects of autonomous living from a practical perspective. Several authors contributed to the series, often with additional input from others. The titles in the series, and their authors, were: http://www.metamute.org/en/Survival-Scrapbooks _______________________________________________ Mute-social mailing list Mute-social lists.metamute.org http://lists.metamute.org/mailman/listinfo/mute-social _______________________________________________