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Mute Vol 2 #7 - Show Invisibles? Migration / Data / Work Editorial content | Vol II

Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 12 February, 2008 - 15:53

We are living through an intensification of citizens’, and non-citizens’, visibility to capital. Database convergence, states of emergency and points-based immigration systems destroy the legal and informational grey zones in which the poor shelter and organise. As black economies and shadow sectors are exposed to the light of networked information in the interests of population management, border enforcement, welfare clamp-downs and, above all, profit, what are the risks and advantages of visibility? What do (political and artistic) representation and rights have to offer the illegal and ‘invisible’?

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Mute readership survey 2007 Editorial content | Publishers' Blog

Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 19 September, 2007 - 11:35

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This year we are launching an annual survey to make sure that we know what you think about Mute. We've tried to design the survey to be as short as possible and you only need to complete the sections you want to feedback on. You can even remain totally anonymous if you wish. Anyone who completes the form and enters a contact will be entered into a competition to win one year's subscription to Mute and a free copy of Mute Anthology which is due to be released in 2008. If you have the time and/or the inclination to complete the survey please click here.

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Multiversity Editorial content | Images

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The Immaterial Aristocracy of the Internet Editorial content | Articles

Submitted by mute on Monday, 5 May, 2008 - 18:33

ByHarry Halpin

Taking issue with the argument that, after decentralisation, control is embodied within the protocols of networks, Harry Halpin gives a historical account of the all-too-human actors vying for power over the net. Not technical standards but immaterial aristocrats rule cyberspace and their seats of power are vulnerable to revolutionary attack

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Karl Proper Editorial content | Images

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Goo Editorial content | Images

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Ambassadors Editorial content | Images

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Fighting Gentification in Harlem – and Hackney Editorial content | News & Analysis

Submitted by mute on Friday, 2 May, 2008 - 01:02

ByHackney Solidarity Network

Juan Haro, a speaker from the Movement for Justice in El Barrio will talk
in Dalston, London about their struggle against displacement by

subject: Architecture | Events | Gentrification

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Crisis in the Visual System Editorial content | Articles

Submitted by mute on Thursday, 1 May, 2008 - 18:20

ByPaul Helliwell

To celebrate Mayday and in anticipation of the leftist ‘danse macabre’ which the anniversary of May ’68 once again promises to be, Mute offers a skeleton for the soixante-huitard feast: Here, Paul Helliwell exhumes the Althusserian preconditions of Jacques Ranciere’s insistently superficial aesthetic politics, and questions whether a notion of the hidden might not still have something decisive to show us

‘There is no science… but of the hidden’ – a phrase by Bachelard taken up by the Althusserians.
– Jacques Rancière from ‘The Janus-Face of Politicised Art’[1]

subject: Theory & Philosophy

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