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Introducing –
Pil and Galia Kollectiv,
one sixth of Mute's
ensemble music column

covering sonic adventures
across genres and time.
Email: info AT kollectiv.co.uk

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No Room to Move
nils norman

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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He’s Not Beyond Good and Evil Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Thursday, 9 October, 2008 - 16:50
Nina Power

Paolo Virno’s latest book contends that the question of human nature – good or evil? – is suddenly topical, thanks to ‘immaterial labour’. But, if true, how useful is this insight?, asks Nina Power

 


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?


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By Tiziana Terranova & Marc Bousquet
July 2004

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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