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Amsterdam Wildside OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by pauline on Thursday, 2 November, 2006 - 15:01
Pauline van Mourik Broekman

To generate a visual accompaniment to Merijn Oudenampsen's recent piece 'Extreme Makeover', I decided to upload these images – made in the summer when visiting a friend in IJburg, one of the new 'polder' territories emerging adjacent to Amsterdam. In addition to the various existing neighbourhoods being annexed to the creative city project, these new architectural oases are literally being conjured out of the sea...


Looking for an Argument Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 25 April, 2006 - 22:17
Tom Roberts

Tom Roberts visits artist filmmaker Anthony McCall's first solo exhibition in the UK, as part of the AV Festival, and traces the shift from 'heavy industry' to ‘information economy’ presaged by the artist's work and the context of the show


Swell, 2005 Installation view

subject: Art | Business | Film | New Economy

Survival Scrapbooks Editorial content | Public Library
Submitted by mute on Saturday, 25 March, 2006 - 14:21
Simon Yuill

The Survival Scrapbooks are a series of six books published in the early-1970s covering different aspects of autonomous living from a practical perspective.  Several authors contributed to the series, often with additional input from others.  The titles in the series, and their authors, were:

volume 1: Shelter, 1972 - Stefan Szczelkun

contents: different forms of wild, mobile, or simple-to-build accommodation including caves, hand-made tents, wooden huts, and vans.


Basic Instinct: Trauma and Retrenchment 2000-4 Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 9 February, 2005 - 00:00
Anthony Davies

Four years ago Mute published Anthony Davies and Simon Ford's influential article 'Culture Clubs' (Mute18), a piece which surveyed the landscape of partnerships and alliances between business, art and politics that was shaping the late '90s culture of convergence. Today, in the wake of the dotcom crash, September 11th, the 'War on Terror', and Enron, we have seen the (re)emergence of some less euphoric, more risk-averse tendencies.

subject: Art | New Economy | Politics

Peak Oil and National Security: A Critique of Energy Alternatives Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 9 February, 2005 - 00:00
George Caffentzis

George Caffentzis analyses contemporary energy politics: is US national energy independence enough?


SPECIAL SECTION: EXPLORING PRECARIOUSNESS (Lessons from the Pietariat) Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 8 February, 2005 - 00:00
Mute editorial

A special section on the politics of precarious labour, including:

Precari-us? > Angela Mitropoulos on the use and misuse of the notion of precariousness as applied to the conditions of labour under neoliberalism


Open Source Development Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Monday, 12 January, 2004 - 00:00
Gilberto Câmara

The production and development of open source software (OSS) has received substantial attention recently, following the success of projects like Apache, Perl and Linux. But what are the real dynamics of this ‘new’ mode of production?


Securing the Knowledge Empire Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Monday, 12 January, 2004 - 00:00
Peter Drahos and John Braithwaite

Peter Drahos and John Braithwaite on how the US has used bilateral deals to secure its predominance in the information economy


Tamass: Contemporary Arab Representation Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Thursday, 3 July, 2003 - 23:00
Zoe Young

Zoe Young explores post-war issues in the Middle East

In 1996, a family of squatters died, demolished along with their Beirut home by the private company reconstructing the post-war city.


After the Greenrush (Saving Nature for Capital with the Global Environment Facility) Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 13 November, 2002 - 00:00
Zoe Young

The Global Environment Facility is a subtle weapon in the arsenal of state-backed globalisation. While ostensibly implementing environmentally-friendly development in the South, its long-term effect is to identify new resources for less-than-green corporate exploitation and to increase developing countries’ indebtedness to organisations like the World Bank and IMF.


Garlic=Rich Air Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 5 November, 2002 - 00:00
JJ King

Thomkins Square Park, New York. The pungent odour of fresh garlic saturates the nearby atmosphere. A bright orange truck marked in large letters with the words ‘Trade for Garlic’ is attracting the attention of passersby. They stop to examine its contents, harangued by the traders who stand by the truck exhorting members of the public to ‘get garlic!’


Real Politik versus Real Fantasy (Review of the Tate Modern's Border Crossing seminar) Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 8 October, 2002 - 23:00
Benedict Seymour

At the Tate Modern's Border Crossing seminar, the artist/activist approaches of panelists Heath Bunting and Florian Schneider threw divergent light on the politics of migration.


One Market Under God Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Monday, 10 December, 2001 - 00:00
Hari Kunzru

Hari Kunzru reviews One Market Under God


Cyberselfishness Explained Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Monday, 10 December, 2001 - 00:00
Geert Lovink interviewing Paulina Borsook

The media interest that surrounded dotcom mania was perhaps as short-lived and skin deep as the supposed economic miracle itself.


CYBERHYPE II – Brain Plagues Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Saturday, 9 September, 2000 - 23:00
CCRU

From Aaron Lynch’s Thought Contagion to Seth Godin’s Idea Virus, the proliferation of interest in media spin-cycles, viral marketing, corporate memetics and cultural contagions suggests that the infective model has itself become a craze.


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