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Minor Politics, Territory and Occupy

In a talk given by Nick Thoburn at the School of Ideas this February, some of the Occupy movement’s most hopeful qualities were magnified through the lens of Deleuze and Guattari’s theory. As Occupy May looms there are signs that the starburst beyond the conceptual and physical limits of the original camp, intuited by Thoburn, will appear

 

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Refusing Conformity and Exclusion in Art Education

 

While experimentation and activism often focus on art school education or education as art, there is a tendency to ignore the creeping influence of corporate public pedagogy which is poisoning the roots of art education in the UK’s schools. Art pedagogy can only be radical, writes Dean Kenning, if it takes on the exclusions and market bias which are impoverishing educational culture

 

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Street Writing Observatory

Featured in Mute Vol. 3, No. 2 - Politics my arse
Fuck May 68

A collective photo project by the Mute Allstars

 

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“The stated goal for the day was to “move-in” to a large, abandoned, building to turn it into a social and political center. It is a long vacant convention center – the only people ever near there are the homeless who use the space outside the building as a bed. The building occupation also draws attention to the large number of abandoned and unused buildings in Oakland.”

Salt - what it's worth

SALT

January 2012

After too many months of preparation, escalate collective’s new text SALT is available to download!

This piece, more extensive than our previous interventions, offers a history of the economic crisis of capitalist deferral particularly with reference to struggles in the United Kingdom

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Trading Futures, Consolidating Student Debt

Gustave Doré, illustration for Canto XII of Dante Alighieri's The Vision of Purg

With a mass default on US student debt threatening to create the next subprime crisis, Angela Mitropoulos dissects the pious injunction to ‘live within ones means', reminding us that to do so has always implied the back-breaking, often immeasurable work of others.

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Reflections on the Arab Spring

Featured in Mute Vol. 3, No. 2 - Politics my arse

Twittering teens or absolutist ayatollahs, men we can do business with or loony autocrats? The media’s proliferation of polarities is a strategy to fragment the connectedness of events and disavow western Realpolitik. Here, Anustup Basu reveals the transnational composition of a Spring that is now a Winter

 

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Mute Vol. 3, No. 2 - Politics my arse

By mute 17 February 2012

'Well, the first thing I want to say is, politics my arse' Issue 2 includes: cover art by Johnny Spencer * Alberto Toscano on logistics and anarchi...

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The Mute Magazine Archive

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By admin 5 January 2012

a special box set of Mute magazine back issues Original copies of nearly every issue* of Mute from 1994 to 2010 - a total of 45 issues spanning th...

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Agit Disco

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By mute 30 November 2011

Agit Disco collects the playlists of its 23 writers to tell the story of how music has politically influenced and inspired them. The book provides a multi-genre survey of political musics, from a wide range of viewpoints, that goes beyond protest songs into the darker hinterlands of musical meaning.

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