The fate of Tibet and its unelected superstar figurehead has captured the attention of western liberals, not to mention the US government. But the real fascination of Tibet is not its exoticism but its similarity to the rest of an undemocratic global system, argues Paula Cerni

Is the convergence of art and sport under the pressure of pseudo-participatory spectacle undermining the utopian potential of both? Benedict Seymour goes back to the future to recover the new kind of activity which, in different ways, informs them still

Over the past couple of months We Are Bad's invectives against sport as class-cleansing have been appearing on the notorious blue fence that runs around the site of the London 2012 Olympic games. Mute made contact with this shadowy underground organisation and can now present the first in a series of specially commissioned posters, made available here in hi-res for home printing