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Is salvagepunk sci-fi with left politics? Laptops with brass trimmings? Anything that looks kind of like Mad Max? At a recent event in London China Miéville and Evan Calder Williams discussed the term, its long pasts, its cursed present, and its uncertain future.  Camera by Hamish Heartnell. Sound by Rachel Baker and video Hamish Hartnell.

Focusing on specific events and mythologies attached to past and recent maritime radicalism, historian Marcus Rediker talks to Omar El-Khairy about piracy, the origins of global capitalism, and the poetics of history from below. This interview was facilitated by Gasworks in the context of their Hydrachy: Power and Resistance at Sea exhibition

1. The Shifting Figure of the Pirate: from the golden age of piracy to its place in popular imagination today

For one week the Psychogeophysical Summit merged renegade earth science, geekery and subjective mapping. Accompanied by Silje Hyenes Lysne, waving a magical video wand, remote reviewer Anthony Iles scried what he could

Video: The Psychogeophysical Summit London, 2-7 August 2010, a Mute and BLIP co-production.

Forever Blowing Bubbles?

Video footage of a Mute event held on the 12th November 2008

A walking tour and talk in the City of London, taking in landmarks of capitalist crisis past and present. Organised by Mute magazine. Writer Fabian Tompsett and Historian Peter Linebaugh will guide a tour around the City relating the contemporary financial crisis to those of previous eras (usch as the 1720 South Sea Bubble), using the urban fabric as text.

Forever Blowing Bubbles video documentation

On 1 July 2008 Mute hosted an open discussion entitled 'Feeding Frenzy: Food, Fuel and Finance' in which we tried to connect the recent food crisis to a chain of 'crises' – first the credit crunch and, following hard on its heals, the unprecedented hike in fuel prices. We would like to continue this debate here with your help!