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Fortress Taksim

Report from Taksim, Istanbul. Reflections and reenforcement after days of chaos and drama. Our reporters Reuben & Gielty take to the streets of Istanbul to find out more about the protestors and their supporters. Reposted from: http://rabble.ie/2013/06/04/fortress-taksim/

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Dusty Mariee is a live stream from the 19th floor of a tower in East London which responds to the Barbican's Dancing Around Duchamp exhibition

This age of austerity comes on the back of a lengthened period of apparently rampant consumer excess: that was a party for which we are all now having to pay. A spectacular period of unsustainably funded over-indulgence, it seems, has now given rise to a sobering period of barely fundable mere-subsistence. Consumption, narrated along such lines, is a sin which has to be paid for. Beyond the deceptive theology of consumption, however, lies actual politics

I Burn Paris - Review

A review of Bruno Jasienski, I Burn Paris, Twisted Spoon Press 2012 reposted from: http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/paris-is-burning/

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Slave to the Algorithm Talk

At last we have video documentation from Mute's night of talks, noise and music investigating the abstract power of algorithms and celebrating the launch of Mute Vol 3 #4 - Slave to the Algorithm

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Good Old Avant-Garde

Does the institutional embrace of collaborative and interventionist art spell the end of the avant-gardist attack on art as a bourgeois individualist form? In his expanded review of Marc James Léger’s book Brave New Avant Garde, Bill Roberts begs to differ

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Classic feminist art magazine from the 1970s through the 1990. Collectively produced issues featured a wide variety of artists’ work, essays, prose and poetry.

Download below. Treasure via Monoskop website: http://monoskop.org/log/?p=7823

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

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.

Human Resolution

Harry Sanderson reflects on the economy of networked image commodities and the chains of labour which underpin their appearance

There is a relation, largely avoided and unexplored, between the ubiquity of digital commodities, and the capacity of these devices to reproduce and maintain a necessary insouciance towards the exploitation and violence required for their continued production.

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