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The end of the post-Cold War era News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Wednesday, 13 August, 2008 - 23:25
MK Bhadrakumar

All-too-plausible explanation from Asia Times (http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/JH13Ag02.html) of Georgia's attack on South Ossetia (2,000 civilians killed and refugees made of another 30,000; a helping hand from US airlifts of 2,000 'essential' Georgian troops back from Iraq) in terms of the push to extend NATO into the Caucasus, which, as it says in the title, would 'end the post-Cold War era', permanently activating the military faultline along Russia's southwestern border and the course of the major Central Asian gas and oil pipelines.


Press Release on Variant’s removal from CSG venues Editorial content | News & Analysis
Submitted by anthony on Tuesday, 22 July, 2008 - 13:38
Variant Magazine

Variant magazine have produced a press release addressing the response of James Doherty, Media Manager of Culture and Sport Glasgow and President of the National Union of Journalists, to a text published in Variant by Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt. 'The main thrust of the article is to expose the connections between the various board members of CSG and its trading arm and their multifarious business interests and strategies for culture, which point to the privatisation of a valuable public service and the erosion of the common good.'


Colossal Youth 2 Editorial content | Public Library
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 25 June, 2008 - 17:37
Colossal Youth 2
subject: Film | Media | Regeneration | Slums

Colossal Youth 1 Editorial content | Public Library
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 25 June, 2008 - 17:35
Colossal Youth 1

A Scandal in New Bohemia OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by anthony on Tuesday, 17 June, 2008 - 11:50
Culture and Sport Glasgow structure diagram
Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt / Variant editorial

Variant, one of the few magazines covering the grim process of stealth privatisation of Glasgow's cultural assets, appears to have been specifically targeted by one of the very privateers it criticised, and who has banned its distribution at Tramway gallery, in a highly defensive abuse of power:

 


The Immaterial Aristocracy of the Internet Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Monday, 5 May, 2008 - 18:33
Harry Halpin

Taking issue with the argument that, after decentralisation, control is embodied within the protocols of networks, Harry Halpin gives a historical account of the all-too-human actors vying for power over the net. Not technical standards but immaterial aristocrats rule cyberspace and their seats of power are vulnerable to revolutionary attack


 


Free Software Editorial content | Public Library
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 12 February, 2008 - 15:31
Toni Prug

                               Free Software
                         Toni Prug, toni@irational.org
                                August 13, 2007


The fight for equal pay for women: Britain's 'Guardian' defends union's dirty deals OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Wednesday, 9 January, 2008 - 19:23
Chris Marsden

From World Socialist Web Site (http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jan2008/guar-j09.shtml), a telling example of what 'the real world' means when invoked by government, unions and sympathetic media.  The story of a group of women care-workers employed by Cleveland and Redcar council who were forced to turn to 'no win no fee' lawyers after to obtain back-pay withheld through a council-Unison stitch-up.  Guess whose side the 'Guardian' was on...


Heathrow protest: not-so-happy campers OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Friday, 17 August, 2007 - 21:15
Nathalie Rothschild

An all-too-believeable first-hand account from Spiked (http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/3730/) of the heroic Civil Obedience at the pro-Behaviour Modification protest camp outside Heathrow.  (Although Spiked's habit of labelling this lot 'Puritans' seems a bit unfair on 17th century Calvinists, given the latter group's social-levelling tendencies, hatred of superstition and insistence on independent thought.)  There are particularly telling moments when protest spokesman John Jordan says the muddy austerity of the camp exemplifies the kind of 'simple life'


Effective Politics or Feeling Effective Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 26 June, 2007 - 17:09
Chris Carlsson

The anti-G8 summit demonstrations in Rostock this June had something of the atmosphere of a music festival and a detention camp and not all the constituents of the decentralised protests were happy campers. Chris Carlsson reports back

 


Black Grammatology Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 18 April, 2007 - 12:18
Josephine Berry Slater

Initially a vital component of experimental black film culture, the Black Audio Film Collective quickly arrived at retrospective respectability. Josephine Berry Slater enters the memory space of their recent show at FACT and retrieves the radical yet 'still born' possibilities from its multi-media memorial

Let them bear witness to the process by which the living transform the dead into partners in struggle, Handsworth Songs, BAFC


Embedded Adventurism Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Thursday, 22 February, 2007 - 11:22
Matthew Hyland
Creative and professional class squatters are being lauded in The Financial Times as socially responsible agents of regeneration. Meanwhile, the UK’s market-driven housing crisis is making squatting more necessary and more insecure.


Silence and (extra) Material Editorial content | Public Library
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 7 February, 2007 - 17:48
Giorgio Agostoni

Attached here are two texts by Mute Vol. 2 Issue 4 contributor Giorgio Agostoni :

A Text for an Exhibition that regards Sound as a Weapon

Silence and Material


Mute Vol 2 #4 - Web 2.0 – Man's best friendster? Editorial content | Vol II
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 13 December, 2006 - 17:14

Buy | read the full version online | PDF | low graphics | designed PDF<


MiniBar - London OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by simon on Tuesday, 7 November, 2006 - 17:49

OpenMute has been developing FLOSS software web tools since 2002 based on our previous bitter and sweet experiences of web publishing and using FLOSS tools in a pressured production working environment. Below are details of a Web 2.0 meetup event based in London that OpenMute is co-organising with our interest of flying the FLOSS flag and that are obviously a set of technologies that underpins many of the more interesting developments that now fall this this catchall phrase Web 2.0.

subject: Media | New Media

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