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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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Arts Centre 2.0 or Social Factory? Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 22 July, 2009 - 15:55
Simon Ford

Torturing their metaphors and confusing art and business, New Labour's favourite creative consultants revealed their vision for the future of arts institutions in the age of networks. Simon Ford reports from the Cornerhouse's ‘The Art of With' conference

 


Trouble on the High Seas News & Analysis
Submitted by Mavis on Sunday, 21 June, 2009 - 15:10
Johan Söderberg

analysis of the anti-politics of the Pirate Party. reposted from nettime.

With 215,000 votes in the European election from the Swedish precinct, the Internet pirates have winds in their sailes. Miltos asked in a previos posting on this list if similar parties will now spawn in other EU electorates. In the ligth of his question, it can be interesting to note that the two major events which angered people in Sweden to point that they casted their votes for the Pirate Party (PP), had only scantly to do with EU intellectual property directives.


Recording the creation of the worlds first Fascist Democracy News & Analysis
Submitted by saladofpearls on Wednesday, 12 November, 2008 - 12:27
Anon
Oddly useful willful misuse of Google's surveillance technology: world's first Fascist Democracy
 
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The Immaterial Aristocracy of the Internet Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Monday, 5 May, 2008 - 18:33
Harry Halpin

Taking issue with the argument that, after decentralisation, control is embodied within the protocols of networks, Harry Halpin gives a historical account of the all-too-human actors vying for power over the net. Not technical standards but immaterial aristocrats rule cyberspace and their seats of power are vulnerable to revolutionary attack


 


Death data drive new market OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Tuesday, 25 March, 2008 - 03:20
Sophia Grene (FT Fund Management)

Courtesy of the Financial Times, the latest news on the financial sector's most self-allegorizing activity: death hedging.  Or more prosaically, the develpment of 'longevity derivatives' and associated indices, through which fund managers can hedge against the risk that people (not to speak of broker-dealers) might not die soon enough.  In this update, Deutsche Börse has introduced live (so to speak) data feeds from undertakers to find out the age of the bodies they bury.

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Editorial Mute 2 #7 Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 12 February, 2008 - 14:53
Josephine Berry Slater

We are standing on the brink of an immense revelation. The revelation of people to states. In the UK – the surveillance workshop of the world – people are becoming increasingly visible through IT projects like the Electronic Patients Record and the National Identity Register, as well as a forthcoming points-based immigration regime premised on the ability to identify subjects and then track and cross-reference their data as never before. Joining-up data, and hence governance, is the name of the game.


Climate Camp 2007: Another End of the World is Possible Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Monday, 3 September, 2007 - 13:13
Damian Abbott

Now that environmentalists and government ostensibly have the same interests at heart one might expect a bit of collusion. But the Climate Camp at London's Heathrow Airport last month saw protesters, media and the police co-produce an event of extraordinary restraint, reports Damian Abbott. While the Met made the protesters' lives as difficult as possible, the campers seemed to be doing a pretty good job of this on their own


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