a special box set of Mute magazine back issues

Original copies of nearly every issue* of Mute from 1994 to the present - 41 issues, including special inserts, CDs, software and artworks

In this issue of Mute there is a generalised refusal to have our selves, in the widest sense of the word, put to work. As we start to see the real repercussions of the financial crisis bite, the Bretton Woods ideological state apparatus is looking rather threadbare.

Post-Fordist State planners, developers, and their entrepreneurial service arm have debased the meaning of ‘creativity’ to a shallow pretext for the further looting of cities and public wealth. The cookie-cutter aestheticisation of selective zones of our cities (tourist promenades, waterside public art, creative quarters), is a mere fig leaf covering the acts of enclosure and exclusion that cultural regeneration entails.

In this issue of Mute we revisit the question of ‘the human’ in the age of biopolitics. What do philosophers, activists and ‘pro-revolutionaries’ have to say about homo sapiens in a world where monstrous claims on value demand populations be reduced to ‘bare (hardworking) life’?

Price UK £18.50 EUR £19.20 US/ROW £20.30 FLOSS+Art critically reflects on the growing relationship between Free Software ideology, open content and digital art. It provides a view onto the social, political and economic myths and realities linked to this phenomenon.

The state is pouring billions into propping up the collapsing financial sector, but who is going to take care of the rest of us? Between Hollywood’s embattled superbats and the gruesome charisma contests of political party leaders, we can be sure of one thing – we don’t need another hero! Mute surveys some popular myths of political-economic salvation (and damnation), and looks for signs of collective agency in the global Gotham

Price UK £6 EUR £6.7 US/ROW £7.8   Featuring; Falling for the Future - Iain Boal brings modernity's futuramas back down to earth. Citizens Banned?

Price UK £5.99 EUR £6.69 US/ROW £7.79 DiY Survival There is no subculture, only subversion. DiY or do-it-yourself survival is a collection of essays, tips and case studies collated from an online call for participation by the maverick art group C6.

'Price UK £9.29 EUR £9.99 US/ROW £11.09 Extra-comunitarios', or citizens of non-European countries, have the 'extra' bureaucratic task of changing their status, to one that will allow them to move and work 'freely' within the European Union.

Price UK £11.00 EUR £11.70 £12.80 Civil Twilight & Other Social Works' explores the performance artwork of provocative Scots artist Roddy Hunter.

Price UK £11.00 EUR £11.70 US/ROW £12.80 New Chronica Dublin is a graphic novel and musical album download, based on a collection of contemporary folklore from the Irish capital.

Price UK £11.00 EUR £11.70 US/ROW £12.80 The Mag.net reader 2 Between Paper and Pixel

Price UK £7.50 EUR £8.20 US/ROW £9.30 FeedBack 4 - Ideas that Inform, Construct and Concern the Production of Exhibitions and Events focuses on participatory art events and examines them from the point of view of the artist, the curator and the participant.