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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

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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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A season in (the vestibule of) hell News & Analysis
Submitted by matthew hyland on Thursday, 18 March, 2010 - 00:57
neinsager

Update on local abominations, written for Wildcat (Germany): , where recent events in other countries are also cut to the quick.

A season in (the vestibule of) hell

the economy is depressed, as is proper in an economically depressed area
Elfriede Jelinek

Sometimes, Stimpy, your wealth of ignorance astounds me!
Ren Hoek

subject: History

Struggle as a Second Language Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 17 March, 2010 - 17:26
B&R

While last summer's strike at Tower Hamlets College is often portrayed as a victory by unions, two of its organisers, B&R, remain critical, and place ESOL at the butt end of the government's chauvinist austerity

 

 


Grim Down South: Managing (in) London South Bank University Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 17 March, 2010 - 13:17
Raoul Paled

While education budgets are cut and university leaders have 'visions' for keeping competitive, Raoul Paled reports from Britain's 'worst performing' university, London South Bank, on staff's muted response to savage budgetary pruning

 

subject: Education

Fortress Academy: The Points-Based Visa System and the Policing of International Students and Academics News & Analysis
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 10 March, 2010 - 14:30
Valerie Hartwich

Over at the Manifesto Club, Valerie Hartwich has written up a long report on the effects of the points-based immigration system on the quality of life of students and academics in the UK, as well as the effects on academia itself. From the introduction: 

 

subject: Education

The Future Isn’t What it Used to Be Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 10 March, 2010 - 13:18
M. Beatrice Fazi

Tackling the conundrum of the future's relationship to the present through the prism of digital culture, this year's Transmediale festival strayed into some chaotic philosophical territory. In her review, M. Beatrice Fazi dismisses conceptions of the future as linear effect of the present, instead embracing models of ‘atemporality' and untimeliness

 

 


Communication Networks (Art institutions and New Publics) News & Analysis
Submitted by Open Space on Thursday, 4 March, 2010 - 17:14
Open Space

Communication Networks (Art institutions and New Publics)

Opening: Thursday, March 11 at 7 pm at the Mestna Galerija, Ljubljana

Concept by Alenka Gregoric & Bojana Piskur

Visual Notes by

A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro

P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana

Center for Visual Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade

ICA, Sofia

MGML / Mestna Galerija, Ljubljana

Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana

Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw

Open Space - Zentrum fuer Kunstprojekte, Vienna

The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon

Artists

subject: Art

We Don’t Need No Education? The Case of the London Met Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Thursday, 4 March, 2010 - 15:01
Mute

In the wake of a cash crisis and resulting round of savage job cuts, London Metropolitan University has been left reeling, but still standing.


Announcement: Extracts from “Eclipsed Voices News & Analysis
Submitted by Open Space on Tuesday, 2 March, 2010 - 20:38
Open Space

° Extracts from “Eclipsed Voices”, 10 March - 2 April 2010

Opening: 9 March 2010, 7 pm

Project curator: Basak Senova

Participating artists:

Erhan Muratoglu
Sala-manca

Book presentation: 9 March 2010, 7 pm

Eclipsed Voices

The exhibition presents two works whose subject matters alter diverse issues of social, political, cultural, and economic aspects of our daily life. Each work, in its own way, has the restrained intention of trying to understand the local realities that surround us and shape our identity.

subject: Art

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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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