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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
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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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Nostalghia unto Death News & Analysis
Submitted by Nathan_Coombs on Saturday, 26 September, 2009 - 12:20
Nathan Coombs

The famous Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky once described the experience of exile for a Russian as “nostalghia” – he insisted that the word not be translated into proper English, but rather retain the Italian translation of the Russian word "??????????." For Tarkovsky, who evinced a peculiar brand of medievalist Russian nationalism throughout his work, a Russian leaving their homeland would experience a form of spiritual and physical death; and, indeed, the central character, the semi-autobiographical poet, Andrei Gorchakov, does actually die at the end of his film Nostalghia.


Reformist Politics Content
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 4 November, 2008 - 18:45
Reformist Politics

Graffiti in toilets of Mono Bar, 'Merchant City' cultural quarter Glasgow


Climate Camp and Class News & Analysis
Submitted by Neon_Black81 on Saturday, 30 August, 2008 - 00:26
Adam Ford

Picture the scene. The setting sun is glinting off the visors of the police lined up in front of me. It's the second or third day of the weeklong Camp for Climate Action - already I've lost count - and for the second or third time since I last slept it looks as if the cops are about to invade. I've just bolted from the opposite end of the site, where I've helped dig a defensive trench at another gate. To my left, atop a red van, a woman who sounds scouser than scouse exhaustedly screeches words of encouragement into a megaphone and somehow dances to Radiohead.


All Problems of Notation Will Be Solved By the Masses Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by admin on Friday, 23 May, 2008 - 16:56
Simon Yuill

In the 1960s and '70s musicians devised innovative forms of notation and protocol to liberate themselves from aesthetic and social conventions. Today's digital devotees of code based production and improvisation are continuing this tradition, argues Simon Yuill*


All Problems of Notation Will be Solved by the Masses Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 6 February, 2008 - 18:36
Simon Yuill

If relational aesthetics and open source were always commercial, can the musical score provide a way of thinking through different relationships between creativity and code? The return to improvisation in 'livecoding' draws parallels with experimental practices developed by maverick musicians, programmers and educators from Sun Ra, The Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Scratch Orchestra to Seymour Papert. Simon Yuill argues that these 'di


Intellectuals with Street Cred? Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 30 October, 2007 - 13:17
Melancholic Troglodytes

What is radical research? Does it emanate from grass roots social movements, the universities, both, or neither? Melancholic Troglodytes review AK Press’s recent collection of ‘militant research’ with an illustrated tour following the book's line of enquiry from the ‘ivory tower to the barricades’


Professor,
take off your bicycle glasses!
I myself will expound
those times
and myself.


Yuppie Anarchists Editorial content |
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 16 October, 2007 - 17:03
Yuppie Anarchists

Illustration Melancholic Troglodytes

subject: Anarchist | Politics

Defending Anonymity OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Monday, 9 July, 2007 - 20:30
Anarchist Federation

This Anarchist Federation analysis of the National (UK) ID Database, parts of which are already up and running with no need for cards, needs to be read as widely as possible.  A terrifying account of how much more than abstract 'privacy' is at stake, and FOR WHOM.


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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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