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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 12 August, 2008 - 16:34
Josephine Berry Slater The ubiquitous injunction to consume ‘Your 5 a Day’ quota of fruit and vegetables seems to stand in for a whole governmental ideology of population management in contemporary Britain and beyond. subject: Class | Economics | Editorials | Government | Mute Vol 2 #9 | Socially Engaged
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 28 May, 2008 - 16:20
Josephine Berry Slater With investment in stocks and property now inducing ambient neurasthenia, mainstream investors are allegedly turning to ‘alternative investments' like wine and art, not to mention gold. Although art and wine were considered riskier than property in the pre-credit-crunch era, according to one recent article they are now regarded as safer than bricks and mortar (‘Credit crunch fuels investor search for art, wine', Clara Ferreira-Marques, Reuters.com).
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Submitted by mute on Monday, 13 August, 2007 - 10:16
Suhail Malik If the wider economy were to crash, would the art market follow it down? And are critical-political claims for art as inflated as prices? Suhail Malik puts his money on art's (economic) autonomy
Images by " " [sic] Tim Goldie
subject: Art | Cultural Industries | Debt | Economics | Hedge Fund | Markets | Relational Aesthetics
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Submitted by mute on Thursday, 10 May, 2007 - 10:49
George Caffentzis Since 2004 the rhetoric of Bush’s republican party has turned curiously green, integrating climate change as a legitimation for neoliberal imperialism. At the same time the unintended consequence of America’s unsuccessful adventures has been to enrich an ‘anti-neoliberal’ class of oil rentiers in Africa, Latin America and Asia. George Caffentzis plots the changes in the US energy policy as it turns from eco-naysayer to ecowarrior
subject: Climate Change | Energy Resources | Globalisation | Government | Marxist | Nationalism | Neoliberal | Oil | Policy
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Submitted by mute on Thursday, 10 May, 2007 - 10:29
Tim Forsyth and Zoe Young In their tango with grassroots green activists, inter-governmental policy makers are taking the lead. Tim Forsyth and Zoe Young analyse the ‘new green order’ and the carbon offset colonialism that accompanies it
subject: Biodiversity | Climate Change | Energy Resources | Environment | Policy
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Submitted by mute on Thursday, 10 May, 2007 - 09:50
Chris Wright and Samantha Alvarez David Harvey is an influential academic theorist of the spatial, cultural and economic forms of neoliberal capitalism. Chris Wright and Samantha Alvarez contrast his analysis with that of Michael Hudson, whose Super Imperialism exposed the fiscal foundations of neoliberalism some 30 years earlier
subject: Economics | Finance & Trade | Globalisation
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 9 May, 2007 - 14:39
Kate Rich It’s not just the founders of hippy communes or artists like Amy Balkin who are looking for ‘a breathing space from the State’ in which to experiment with freedom and free-time. Big IT companies like Google apparently share their ideals. With a commitment to ‘me time’, the production of ‘universal access’, and (energy) sovereignty, corporates are leveraging the dream of the commons
subject: Climate Change | Commons | Computing | Energy Resources | Environment | Management Theory | Oil
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 9 May, 2007 - 14:35
Anthony Iles John Jordan and James Marriott’s operatic audio tour set in London’s Square Mile is intended to awaken city workers to the impact of financial systems on climate change. But not only does And While London Burns misgauge how much the suits already know, its hysterical tone also harmonises too easily with the coming new eco-order subject: Artivism | Climate Change | Environment | Finance & Trade | Locative | Site-Specific | Socially Engaged
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 9 May, 2007 - 09:16
James Woudhuysen The emerging capitalist War On Global Warming concentrates on adapting technology and behaviour – particularly other nation-states’ – to mitigate environmental damage. Transformative technological and social innovation is better than meddling micro-action, argues James Woudhuysen
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Science | Climate Change | Economics | Energy Resources | Environment | Oil | Policy | Technology
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 2 May, 2007 - 14:44
Will Barnes Liberal critics assume that climate change is a ‘man-made’ process, not a natural phenomenon. Against this view, Will Barnes argues that global warming does indeed have an inhuman agent behind it – not nature but capital
Capitalist Criminality
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Science | AntiCapitalist | Biodiversity | Climate Change | Environment
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 2 May, 2007 - 13:50
Nils Norman A commission for the Mute Vol 2 #5 - It's Not Easy Being Green edition, Summer 2007.
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 2 May, 2007 - 13:22
Josephine Berry Slater By and large the writers in this issue of Mute accept that climate change is a reality. Earth’s rising temperature can no longer be attributed solely to natural fluctuations produced by solar and volcanic activity, it is instead the result of man’s massive consumption of fossil fuels. There are those who contest the science that underlies this idea, claiming that levels of CO2 in the atmosphere follow rather than determine temperature – man’s activity is irrelevant. subject: Climate Change | Environment
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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 5 September, 2006 - 16:37
Demetra Kotouza The spectre of poverty has always been used by the powerful as a stick to goad those wishing to live without working. Here Demetra Kotouza explores the intimate relationship between the management of the pauper and the (re)production of the labourer, overseen by state and philanthropic institutions. Whether stigmatised by the workhouse, cushioned by welfare or patronised by the neoliberal rhetoric of self-help, she argues, the poor are a necessary constant of capitalism subject: History | Labour Struggles | Law | Neoliberal | New Enclosures | NGO | Society | State
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 24 May, 2006 - 15:30
Alessandra Chila All photography by Alessandra Chila (except where otherwise credited), taken in
subject: Immigration | Multiculturalism | Race
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 24 May, 2006 - 15:15
Eric Krebbers Dutch parliamentary democracy has long worn the mask of multi-culturalism, but its swing to the right in recent years has exposed the limits of Holland’s famous tolerance. Now that it looks like the UK government may be following suit, we present here a new version of Eric Krebbers’ text on Dutch assimilationist racism originally published in De Fabel van der illegaal in January 2005
subject: Multiculturalism | Politics | Race | Society
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