term

Commons

Workshop: Video and Open Source (M)OOCs

The workshop will explore how video is being used in the new wave of distance learning software packages recently termed Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). We’ve take the liberty of removing the ‘Massive’ part to demonstrate our preference to examine the learning aspect and to question the motives for this optimistic idea of a wide reach.

0 Comments 2016 Reads Print

Listener As Operator (3)

In its encouragement of a group expression that supports musicians to ‘play beyond themselves’ and to evolve singularities within a shared ‘reservoir of artistic richness’, Howard Slater finds in jazz a response to the experience of slavery; one that evolved outside channels of sanctioned expression, and which preserves and propels a collective being. This is his third column for Mute Music

0 Comments 4892 Reads Print

They Want the Money, So Do We

Madame Tlank reviews Selma James, Sex Race and Class: the Perspective of Winning, Oakland: PM Press, 2012

In memoriam, Shulamith Firestone

0 Comments 4341 Reads Print

Call For Submissions: Reinvention of Research Workshop

Researching BWPWAP: The Reinvention of Research as Participatory Practice

Call for Participation for an
International Research Conference and PhD Workshop
to be held at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany,
22-24 November 2012

0 Comments 2805 Reads Print

The Bloomsbury Social Centre is currently under threat of violent eviction from SOAS management. We need your help. We have been in existence now for three weeks. In that time we've helped organise towards the 30 November Strike, organised tenants' rights workshops, and co-ordinated with student occupations in Birmingham and Cambridge.

Recent Comments

Mute Vol. 3, No. 4 - Slave to the Algorithm

magazine

By admin 13 April 2013

As the financial crisis fastens its grip ever tighter around the means of human and natural survival, the age of the algorithm has hit full stride. This phase-shift has been a long time coming of course, and was undoubtedly as much a cause of the crisis as its effect, with self-propelling algorithmic power replacing human labour and judgement and creating event fields far below the threshold of human perception and responsiveness.

Full Details

BUY NOW

0 Comments 5877 Reads