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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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Submitted by davem on Wednesday, 10 March, 2010 - 14:13

Background articles for ICA discussion News & Analysis
Submitted by szczels on Friday, 12 February, 2010 - 14:23
Stefan Szczelkun

Two other Anthony Davies texts on Metamute are essential if this debate on the ICA is to be understood in a wider context. As well as his original Culture Clubs (2000) written with Simon Ford the two texts are:

1. Basic Instinct: Trauma and Retrenchment 2000-4 (2005)
http://www.metamute.org/en/Basic-Instinct-Trauma-and-Retrenchment-2000-4

Basic instinct alludes to the reassertion of capitals core values within the art scene.

It starts with a reference to the previous director at the ICA:


A CRISIS OF UNDER ACCUMULATION News & Analysis
Submitted by Heartfield on Saturday, 6 February, 2010 - 09:41
James Heartfield

Capitalist profits have been falling, but not for the reasons that Marx said they would, says James Heartfield: it is not the objective laws of capital accumulation that are a barrier to growth today, but the subjective retreat of the capitalist class from industrial growth

subject: Economics

Wealth transfer explained Public Library
Submitted by davem on Wednesday, 23 December, 2009 - 16:26
Dave Miller

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.


Failure to Moderate Excess: A Round-Up of Crisis Chronicles Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 21 October, 2009 - 13:41
William Dixon

Now the dust has settled on the collapse of the banking industry, William Dixon looks back at some crisis bestsellers and finds their limit in a lack of systemic analysis and insistence on reform

 


Mute Vol 2 #13 Editorial content | Vol II
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 25 August, 2009 - 14:13

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.


It's Over (and Over) News & Analysis
Submitted by Ben on Saturday, 15 August, 2009 - 13:49
Vladimir & Estragon Global Solutions

Here's a summer game called: 'It's Over (and Over)' - aka The Eternal Return or 'If it's so over why do you keep saying it's over?'

If you do still have a job and want to kill some undead time, or if like me you are simply hungOVER, collecting 'Over' headlines is easy and fun .


The Buck Stops Here? Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 5 August, 2009 - 10:47
Daniel Berchenko

Amidst late-noughties currency fluctuation, Daniel Berchenko considers the history of the dollar's haphazard rise to global currency standard, its geopolitical consequences and the difficulty of breaking its hold

 

 


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