Mute Vol 2 #8 features Stewart Martin on aesthetic education in post-Fordism, a prizewinning essay on music and code by Simon Yuill (Vilém Flusser theory award, Transmediale 2008), comic-strip satire from Plastique Fantastique, Tom Campbell and Dmitry Vorobyev on carcino-regen in St Petersburg, and by Benedict Seymour on art-sport implosion and the 2012 Olympics. Plus hi-saccharine, zero % relational cover art from John Russell. Miaow!

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Contents

'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 Post-Autonomists, Even': John Cunningham sizes up Antonio Negri's aesthetics at Tate Britain

'Blurred Boundaries: Sport, Art & Activity': Benedict Seymour on the convergence of art and sport

'Anti-Viruses and Underground Monuments': Dmitry 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

Contents of this cluster

1. Editorial
2. All Problems of Notation Will Be Solved By the Masses
3. Pedagogy of Human Capital
4. Staabucks Fukkee is Your Enemy
5. Art Stripped Bare by Post-Autonomists, Even
6. Blurred Boundaries: Sport, Art and Activity
7. Anti-Viruses and Underground Monuments: Resisting Catastrophic Urbanism in Saint Petersburg
8. The Immaterial Aristocracy of the Internet