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Introducing –
Pil and Galia Kollectiv,
one sixth of Mute's
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covering sonic adventures
across genres and time.
Email: info AT kollectiv.co.uk

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No Room to Move
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No Room to Move: Radical Art and the Regenerate City
A fistful of research on the state of critical public art in the maelstrom of New Labour's regeneration programmes.
By Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony Iles


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Invisible Politics - An Introduction to Contemporary Communisation Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 29 September, 2009 - 14:22
John Cunningham

In the wake of the organised left and the demise of working class self-identity, communisation offers a paradoxical means of superseding capitalism in the here and now whilst abandoning orthodox theories of revoluti


The Return of the Red Bourgeoisie – An Interview with Nada Prlja Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 23 September, 2009 - 13:11
Stefan Szczelkun

Heavily influenced by the Black Wave or dissident Yugoslav cinema of her childhood, artist Nada Prlja considers its unique balancing act between iconoclasm and idealism, individualism and communism to be exemplary. In an interview with Stefan Szczelkun, Prlja talks about the cultural context of communist Yugoslavia and its mutation into a consumer culture - a shift that her artwork pivots on

 


When Nothing is Produced Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 16 September, 2009 - 11:21
Marcel Stoetzler

Bourgeois society's reduction of sexuality to the logic of (re)production results in a series of rigid dichotomies. Drawing on a rich history of radical theory, Marcel Stoetzler rejects sexual dimorphism and the gay/straight split to imagine a sexuality that is free to recreate itself

 

 


Editorial Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 25 August, 2009 - 15:00
Josephine Berry Slater

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. The strategy to placate social desires through cheap credit, property acquisition and the decoration of domestic surfaces continues against a muted backdrop of factory occupations, boss-nappings, foreclosures, and the dregs of what looks to be Big Brother’s last season.


Notes on The Last Days of Jack Sheppard: Capital Crimes and Paper Claims Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 12 August, 2009 - 17:36
Benedict Seymour

Extrapolating from his talk on Anja Kirschner and David Panos’ recent film about 18th century folk legend Jack Sheppard, Benedict Seymour traces the intimate relationship between death, representation, fiction and speculation. Then, as now, the attempt to escape from capitalism’s calculus threatens to collapse into another moment of capture

 


Beneath the Idol, the Bureaucrat Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by admin on Wednesday, 3 June, 2009 - 15:50
Sam Williams

A recently published volume of Guy Debord's early letters provides insights into a singular personality, and the fractious relationships that spawned the Situationist International. But, asks Sam Williams, how does this disenchanting account alter its spectacular legacy?

 

subject: Situationist

Editorial: Empathy for the Devil Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 18 March, 2009 - 15:36
Matthew Hyland

Lobotomist Walter Freeman to patient under local anaesthetic: What's going through your mind right now?

Patient: A knife.

- Quoted in Howard Dully's, My Lobotomy: A Memoir, 2007, (ghost-writer Charles Fleming)

 

How tired I am after another year of denunciation!

- Myles na gCopaleen

 


Digital Cold Front Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 10 March, 2009 - 14:39
Sam Williams

Against a background of culture’s wider digitisation, the Transmediale festival is moving beyond its new media art niche – but into what? asks Sam Williams

 

subject: New Media Art

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Far removed from the clichéd image of the ‘ivory tower’, today’s universities have been opened to the harsh realities of neoliberal economics. In the name of democratisation and equality, the university has become a cross between a supermarket and a factory whose consumers are also its hyper-exploited labour force. But the conditions of mass intellectuality also create new potentials and alliances

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