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Pil and Galia Kollectiv,
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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.


Heidegger, the Fuhrer-principal News & Analysis
Submitted by Heartfield on Sunday, 24 May, 2009 - 12:56
James Heartfield

Heidegger with oak leaves

Rudiger Safranski, Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil, Princeton University Press, £10.95 pbk, 469pp  

subject: Nationalism

The Political Immunity of Discourse Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Friday, 28 November, 2008 - 11:12
Erik Empson

The English translation of Roberto Esposito’s Bios appears to be an important contribution to the critical analysis of a politics of life, but can the book’s claim to ‘revitalise’ politics really be thought from within the exclusive bounds of academic philosophy? Erik Empson reviews

 


The Pogroms in South Africa: a Crisis in Citizenship OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by anthony on Wednesday, 2 July, 2008 - 15:14
Richard Pithouse
Richard Pithouse analyses the politics of “xenophobia and authoritarianism” in South Africa

 

subject: Africa | Nationalism | Race

The situation of left communism today OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Friday, 18 April, 2008 - 20:43
Loren Goldner / SaNoShin

In-depth to say the least (it's 55 pages if you print it out) interview with marxist writer/activist and recent Mute collabor Loren Goldner by the South Korean SaNoShin group, covering the 20th century history of class struggle and present developments/future prospects.
From Goldner's Break Their Haughty Power website (http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner/)

The Situation of Left Communism Today:
Interview with the Korean Socialist Workers Newspaper Group (SaNoShin), November-December 2007

Loren Goldner


Doing it for the Kids Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Thursday, 14 February, 2008 - 16:42
Elizabeth Povinelli

On the pretext of a child sexual abuse crisis in Australia’s Northern Territory the Howard government passed emergency legislation and prepared a land invasion of aboriginal areas by police, doctors and the army. Elizabeth Povinelli locates this latest state of exception in a wider neoliberal project to impose work and austerity. Images and text box by Benedict Seymour


The Failure of Political Theology Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 28 November, 2007 - 15:33
Angela Mitropoulos

The notion of the 'failed state' is recurrently invoked to justify military and security interventions. Reviewing two books which take so-called failed states in Africa and South America as their object of enquiry, Angela Mitropoulos questions the founding premises of 'successful' national sovereignty


Fictitious Capital For Beginners: Imperialism, 'Anti-Imperialism', and the Continuing Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 21 August, 2007 - 16:44
Loren Goldner

The liquidity crisis currently wiping billions off global stock markets is just the tip of a very big iceberg. Beneath the credit crunch and incipient insolvency crisis lie the economic and political crisis of the USA’s global reign, claims Loren Goldner. But will this mean global depression, wars and intensified authoritarianism, or a renewed opportunity for communism?


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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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