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No Room to Move
nils norman

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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Damning the Flood Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 14 October, 2008 - 16:30
Richard Pithouse


By supporting NGOs, is the left suppressing a radical politics in Haiti and elsewhere?


Monstrous Plans & Good Habitats Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 1 October, 2008 - 11:28
Mark Crinson

Was modernism complicit with colonialism, and did the struggle for decolonisation also entail the targeting of imperial modernist architecture? Mark Crinson visits the exhibition In the Desert of Modernity to see if the charge will stick

 


Any Other But Our Selves Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Thursday, 25 September, 2008 - 11:17
J.J. Charlesworth

Contemporary curators are loving the alien, the sacred and the cultic. But far from challenging contemporary social mores, this Other-worship is just an orthodox postmodern denigration of human agency, argues J.J. Charlesworth

 


Orientalism Inverted: The Rise of 'Hindu Nation' Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 30 July, 2008 - 18:22
Neil Gray

Is Indianness just a German ideology? In the first of a two-part analysis of neoliberalism in the subcontinent, Neil Gray traces the history of Hindu cultural nationalism, from a colonialist mystique of pure spirituality to today's fascist pogroms and economic polarisation

 


Western Sahara Editorial content |
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 28 November, 2007 - 20:24
Western Sahara

Image: Refugee camp in western Sahara, http://www.arso.org/05-3.htm


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


Super Size my pay OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by matthew hyland on Friday, 9 March, 2007 - 03:39
Toby

Official 'New Zealand' is a sporty, soporific hell-hole of 'classless' good cheer.  Fortunately successive generations of the Pacific proletariat (see also L.Goldner's Melville book and Fabian Thomsett's review of same on Metamute) refuse to learn that the colonial/class war is over.
(from Libcom: http://libcom.org/)


Surging towards the holy oil grail Editorial content | News & Analysis
Submitted by matthew hyland on Saturday, 13 January, 2007 - 05:09
Pepe Escobar

Schedule of impending disaster in Iraq according to the oil rights law (cf. Midnight Notes any time since 2003) about to be passed under cover of moral fever over the US cannon fodder 'surge'.  From by-no-means-sympathetic perspective the speculator, sorry, journalist almost acknowledges a common class interest between insurgent Sunni and Shia non-oil-owners, against their 'representatives' including the newly-ministerial Badr Brigades as well as th ex-Ba'ath thanatocrats courted by the occupiers as potential deal-brokers.


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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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