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In Times of Crisis: Act!
Submitted by sgbohm on Monday, 9 November, 2009 - 13:17
Steffen Böhm
It has been 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. We are ‘celebrating' this anniversary at a time when global capitalism and liberal democracy, the so-called winners of the Cold War struggle between East and West, find themselves in one of the deepest economic and political crises since the Wall Street crash in 1929 and the global turmoil that followed. subject: Environment | Film | Financial Crisis | History | Politics | Psychology | Society | Theory & Philosophy | War on Terror
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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 30 September, 2008 - 14:24
Andrew Fisher Giving a critical survey of the documentaries of Adam Curtis, Andrew Fisher evaluates the claims to realism and political neutrality made for his work, using the critical methodologies of Guy Debord and Georg Lukács
subject: Broadcast Media | Film | Neoliberal | Politics | State | Theory & Philosophy | War on Terror
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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
subject: Art | Iraq | New Media Art | War | War on Terror
The end of the post-Cold War era
Submitted by unterschreber on Wednesday, 13 August, 2008 - 23:25
MK Bhadrakumar All-too-plausible explanation from Asia Times (http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/JH13Ag02.html) of Georgia's attack on South Ossetia (2,000 civilians killed and refugees made of another 30,000; a helping hand from US airlifts of 2,000 'essential' Georgian troops back from Iraq) in terms of the push to extend NATO into the Caucasus, which, as it says in the title, would 'end the post-Cold War era', permanently activating the military faultline along Russia's southwestern border and the course of the major Central Asian gas and oil pipelines. subject: Asia | Cold War | Energy Resources | Events | Information | Media | Neoliberal | Occupations | Oil | State | Strategy | War | War on Terror
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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 15 July, 2008 - 16:24
Emilio Quadrelli In this series of interviews with young migrants living in different European cities, Emilio Quadrelli tracks the elusive subject of 'political Islam' as well as the intensive police actions which together shape the boundaries of a 'refugee subjectivity'. Translation from the Italian by Stefano di Cicco
subject: Class | Europe | Immigration | Media | Middle East | Politics | War on Terror
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Submitted by mute on Friday, 29 February, 2008 - 14:32
C. L-Stavrides While bird flu panic made a return to the UK mainland last autumn, the promised pandemic failed to materialise. What does continue to evolve, however, are repressive forms of population management sustained by hypothetical threats of megadeath – writes C. L-Stavrides subject: Asia | Biology | Biopolitics | Epidemic | Immigration | Labour Struggles | Mute Vol 2 #7 | Slums | Urbanism | War on Terror
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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 12 February, 2008 - 15:08
Leutha Blissett As database profiling of non/citizens grows increasingly pervasive and the dubious promise of 'techno-communism 2.0' haunts the blogosphere, real material differences will continue to sort the technologically ‘liberated’ from the dataslaves, declares Leutha Blissett
subject: Immigration | Mute Vol 2 #7 | Posthumanist | RFID | War on Terror
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 28 November, 2007 - 20:28
subject: Government | War on Terror
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