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 mute on Saturday, 2 January, 2010 - 17:36
Ben Pritchett
Ben Pritchett dives into the alphabet soup of Brian Rotman's Becoming Beside Ourselves and Joanna Zylinska's Bioethics in the Age of New Media and picks apart the jumbled relations between ethics, new media and subjectivity
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 16 September, 2009 - 11:21
Marcel Stoetzler
Bourgeois society's reduction of sexuality to the logic of (re)production results in a series of rigid dichotomies. Drawing on a rich history of radical theory, Marcel Stoetzler rejects sexual dimorphism and the gay/straight split to imagine a sexuality that is free to recreate itself
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 19 May, 2009 - 12:12
Luciana Parisi
Matteo Pasquinelli's book, Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons, asks us to get real about the dark, libidinal desires and living labour that underlie the 'multitude' and the commons. Review by Luciana Parisi
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.
Culture Clubs -
By Anthony Davies and Simon Ford
Sept 2000
New Labour orthodoxy maintains, in line with its predecessor, that public private partnerships are the only way forward economically. Transport, health and education have been the most controversial new enterprise zones, but is the cultural sector's restructuring any less absolute?