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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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Flipping the Script Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Friday, 15 August, 2008 - 12:28
Imogen O’Rorke

As western audiences increasingly switch off from generic reporting of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Imogen O'Rorke finds the news-unworthy testimonies at Tate Modern a much needed corrective

 


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.


McMilitarism to Go Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 28 February, 2006 - 17:18
Anustup Basu

What mutations in the circulatory logic of capital and spectacle have occurred since September 11th? In their 2005 book Afflicted Powers: Capital in a New Age of War, Bay Area collective Retort argue that neoliberalism has moved from an era of austerity programmes and agreements to one of all out war – over air, land, and media. Here Anustup Basu reviews their book and traces the demise of a Kantian modernity based on ‘enfranchisement and eternal peace’ and the rise of one based on ‘weak citizenship and perpetual conflict’


Internal Intifada: Workers' Struggle in Occupied Iraq Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Thursday, 9 September, 2004 - 23:00
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With Iraq transformed into a vast Free Trade (War) Zone, how are unionised workers fighting back against the occupation’s neo-Ba’athist regime? Ewa Jasiewicz, who recently returned from eight months working with human rights groups, families, Palestinian refugees, women’s groups and trade unions in Baghdad and Basra, reports

subject: Insurgency | Iraq

The Big Other's 'Unknown Knowns' Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 21 July, 2004 - 23:00
Mark Fisher

In Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle Slavoj Zizek applies his theoretical apparatus to the war on terror once again. Mark Fisher reviews the book and finds that there are some things the US intelligence services didn't know they knew


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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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