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Introducing –
Pil and Galia Kollectiv,
one sixth of Mute's
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covering sonic adventures
across genres and time.
Email: info AT kollectiv.co.uk

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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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Mute Talks and documentation 2008 Public Library
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 5 November, 2008 - 10:54
mute

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


Somali ‘Pirates’ want to send loot confiscated from rich countries to Haiti News & Analysis
Submitted by mute on Sunday, 24 January, 2010 - 13:29
Agencia Matriz del Sur

Thanks, passed on by c chemnitz


Avatar, or film as the third dimension of financialisation News & Analysis
Submitted by Ben on Thursday, 31 December, 2009 - 19:51
Ben

Some thoughts on James Cameron's Avatar, film, and financialisation.

A familiarity with the 3D movie and the works of Jean Baudrillard may help render this more intelligible.


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

 


So Feral it's Tame Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Monday, 21 September, 2009 - 14:03
John Millar

In her recent show, Kate Rich harnesses the spare baggage capacity of the globe-trotting art world to create a ‘feral trade' network of human scale exchange. John Millar has trouble suspending his disbelief

 


Capitalism, Biotechnology, Securitisation and Other Scary Words! Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 21 October, 2008 - 13:17
Melancholic Troglodytes

Speculation and risk management, once the preserve of finance, have become defining traits of all facets of contemporary capitalism from military planning to stem cell research. The Melancholic Troglodytes review two recent books exploring the expansion of this speculative logic

There are distinct ideological ties of continuity between these two contributions.


Can Obama See the Grand Canyon?On Presidential Blindness and Economic Catastrophe News & Analysis
Submitted by anthony on Friday, 17 October, 2008 - 10:18
Mike Davis

Davis' metaphor of the Grand Canyon is a useful one, few commentators have yet managed to go beyond the language of prior financial crises to describe this one (meltdown, bubble, crash etc.) and it seems useful, at this point, at least to indicate the shortfall in perception.


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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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