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Introducing –
Pil and Galia Kollectiv,
one sixth of Mute's
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covering sonic adventures
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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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Hopenhagen against Hope Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 17 February, 2010 - 14:29
Ilya Lipkin

Amidst the general panic and its commodification, Ilya Lipkin travelled to the Copenhagen Summit to witness capitalism's first last chance at preserving a climate conducive to its growth

 

 

Situating COP15: Capitalist Logic and Subjectivity

 


The State Climate Camp's In Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 4 November, 2009 - 17:54
Damian Abbott

Having chosen the conspicuously tranquil site of Blackheath for Climate Camp 2009, attention shifted from the politics of land occupation to the camp’s panic-fuelled green authoritarianism. Report by Damian Abbott


Any Other But Our Selves Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Thursday, 25 September, 2008 - 11:17
J.J. Charlesworth

Contemporary curators are loving the alien, the sacred and the cultic. But far from challenging contemporary social mores, this Other-worship is just an orthodox postmodern denigration of human agency, argues J.J. Charlesworth

 


Mute Vol 2 #9 Editorial content | Vol II
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 13 August, 2008 - 08:48

The new print issue of Mute magazine is out now. Vol2 #9 takes on the UK's services-for-surveillance State, technological utopias, green capitalism and much more!


Nuclear Fusion and Art’s Fission Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 30 January, 2008 - 16:03
Nuno Rodrigues

In the recent show FUSION NOW!, curator J.J. Charlesworth invited his exhibitors to imagine technologically produced abundance. But without a vision of social revolution, what kind of politics was the show promoting, and were the artists on message?, asks Nuno Rodrigues


Views on climate change OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by philippfreudenberg on Saturday, 12 January, 2008 - 14:24
Philipp Freudenberg

Text inspired by Will Barnes 'Climate and capital' (see Mute #2 Vol. 5)  with a more scientific and technical approach.  

Views on climate change  

There are many important topics in the news these days, but none is as
important for future generations as climate change. The decisions that
are made in the next years, months or days [1] will be determining the
future of mankind. Climate change is also a topic where political, social,


Eco-imperialism at the Bali summit? OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Wednesday, 19 December, 2007 - 23:30
James Heartfield

Brief historicization (from www.spiked-online.com) of the latest inter-governmental eco-policy deal, looking into the way certain branches of capital established the 'Green' agenda long before its discovery by counter-culture and adoption by mainstream moralism.  The ideology of Scarcity is perpetual, but it took on this distinct institutional form during the late 20th century Supply Side ascendancy.  Incidentally the implicit contradiction between an 'eco-imperialist' drive to keep the 'underdeveloped' world that way (as a 'non-capitalist' source of loot) and industrial capi


Green politics explained in full OpenPublishing |
Submitted by unterschreber on Tuesday, 9 October, 2007 - 21:03
Green politics explained in full

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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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