The new print issue of Mute magazine is out now. Vol2 #9 takes on the UK's services-for-surveillance State, technological utopias, green capitalism and much more!

Borders 2.0: Future, Tense – Bryan Finoki and Angela Mitropoulos explore contemporary borderlands though text and image

The Battle of All Mothers – Madame Tlank on welfare, surveillance and working class women

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

Crisis in the Visual System – Paul Helliwell argues the art world's favourite philosopher, Jacques Rancière, does have something to hide

Manufactured Scarcity – James Heartfield on how Enron pioneered ecologicaly correct regressive capitalism

When Travesty Becomes Form – Alberto Duman contemplates the self-flagellating self-affirmation of the curator

Cover image by Dominic: Your Five a Day! An average portion of Mute contains all the cultural vitamins essential to a healthy (contempt for the) economy

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Contents of this cluster

1. Editorial: Your Five a Day
2. Falling for the Future
3. Citizens Banned?
4. Crisis in the Visual System
5. Borders 2.0: Future, Tense
6. Manufactured Scarcity - The Profits of Deindustrialisation
7. The Battle of all* Mothers (or: No Unauthorised Reproduction)
8. When Travesty Becomes Form