Mute Vol 2 #8 features a selection of articles and artwork commissioned for our online platform http://metamute.org over this Spring. The issue boasts hi-saccharine cover art by the inimitable John Russell, a prizewinning essay by Simon Yuill (winner of the Vilém Flusser theory award at Transmediale 2008), Plastique Fantastique's comic-strip satire of fashionable theory and metropolitan aesthetes and, returning to our coverage of the 2012 London Olympics, Benedict Seymour's text assessing the prospects for utopian currents in both art and sport. Scanning the bleak post-credit crunch horizon for novel cultural forms, the issue finds ample signs of life among the ruins of late capitalism