In the lead up to the May local elections in the UK, the selection of a Greek-Armenian candidate by the British National Party (BNP) has seen the party descend into turmoil. The admission of ‘ethnics’ to the party, hardliners have claimed on bulletin boards and in the national press, has destroyed one of the last bastions of white working class racists.

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A two-day open festival mapping media arts in London.

DMZ is a firewall-free mapping of media arts in London, a two-day open festival celebrating the diversity of screen based and network based local cultural practice with an exhibition, screenings, talks, installations, wireless networks, net art, live performances, workshops, stalls and a tea lounge as chill out zone.

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TOMAS ZAMOT – THE NEW LABOUR: HOW TO OCCUPY A FACTORY
SEBASTIAN HACHER – BOLIVIA’S WAR OF WARS
CONRAD HEROLD – FREE TRADE IN THE AMERICAS

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Now I am become Death, Destroyer of Worlds
By Hari Kunzru

Signatures of the Apocalypse: The Politics of Surveillance in Contemporary India
By Shuddhabrata Sengupta

War and Peace
By Pauline van Mourik Broekman

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Including: Martin Conrads and Ulrich Gutmair's interview to Bruce Sterling, Hari Kunzru on futurecasting and scenario-planning, Benedict Seymour on the modern metropolis' regeneration game, Mike Holderness on Microwave crowd-control weapons, Corinna Snyder on the ghost of dot com fever and corporate attempts to reanimate it. Includes Ceci n'est pas un magazine, a kind of Mute & Metamute manifesto.

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Including: Reports on Tulipomania and UK.com, Josephine Berry on International Browserday, Stewart Home on life and work with Iain Sinclair and Chris Petit, Anthony Davies and Simon Ford on Culture Clubs, Michel Houellebecq interviewed and Roy Ascott, Sara Diamond and Geert Lovink on the net status-quo + Ben Seymour on Empire and Steve Beard on Dromographic Stress Disorder.

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Including: John Fitzpatrick on the Prevention of Terrorism Bill, Chris Darke on the Rotterdam Film Festival's Exploding Cinema, Ulrich Gutmair on George Soros, Josephine Berry on etoy, Ted Byfield on Lawrence Lessig and the apocalypse industry, Kate Rich on The Centre for Land Use Interpretation and Ben Seymour on CRASH + David Panos on No Logo and Lev Manovich on Blade Runner.

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Including: Sheep T. Iconoclast on Bluetooth, Josephine Berry on the net as cemetery, JJ King on Matthew Zook and the digital divide, Dr. Future on Imaginaria, John Bichard in conversation with Peter Molyneux and Mark Fisher on Y2K + Matthew Fuller's 'I am the mayor of London' and the Mute Text Monument to the Second Millennium.

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Including: Frédéric Madre on net porn, Anthony Davies on J18 in the City of London, JJ King on ICANN + Space special with James Flint; Mary Lou Jepsen; Karl Grossman; 'Exploding Eve' women on space questionnaire; Margaret Wertheim on astrobiology; the Association of Autonomous Astronauts interviewed and Ted Byfield on 'Full Moon'.