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
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
Submitted by unterschreber on Thursday, 25 October, 2007 - 18:43
Wildcat / Manuela Pellarin
Porto Marghera – the last firebrands Screening and presentation/discussion Friday, 9th of November, 7.30pm, Pullens Estate community centre [see end of page for details]
Submitted by mute on Thursday, 22 February, 2007 - 11:22
Matthew Hyland
Creative and professional class squatters are being lauded in The Financial Timesas socially responsible agents of regeneration. Meanwhile, the UK’s market-driven housing crisis is making squatting more necessary and more insecure.
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