Since there is no centralised events area, I'm adding an article here to help people keep track of Mute's rapidly expanding events programme as well as documentation of previous events. Check the front page for updates

A diagram/ drawing to explain, or hopefully partially explain the financial crisis and some of the intent behind it - at least from a UK perspective. This is an attempt produce something simple and accessible, that condenses things so that everyone can understand.

In this issue of Mute there is a generalised refusal to have our selves, in the widest sense of the word, put to work. As we start to see the real repercussions of the financial crisis bite, the Bretton Woods ideological state apparatus is looking rather threadbare. The strategy to placate social desires through cheap credit, property acquisition and the decoration of domestic surfaces continues against a muted backdrop of factory occupations, boss-nappings, foreclosures, and the dregs of what looks to be Big Brother’s last season.