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Geraldine Goat – The Hard Way To Enlightenment

Stephan Dillemuth's film installation, The Hard Way to Enlightenment, deployed a live goat in an immanent critique of privatisation and its implications for art, research and education. Geraldine has since slipped her collar to appear in this short story by Katrina Palmer satirising the apparently limitless masochism of the contemporary artist

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When a London-based international artist comes in contact with a run down East End housing estate, what happens? The typical narrative is this: a large well funded curating body facilitates a high profile, costly, impressive and much-reviewed well-hyped installation spectacle that brings the bourgeoisie in droves to the site, where they marvel at not only the work but the frisson of excitement at actually being in a run down council estate.

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

'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 anarchism *
Gail Day on postmodernism at the V&A * Brian Ashton zooms in on RFID * Mark Neocleous on generalised anxiety * Benjamin Noys on spaghetti communism * Howard Slater on the August riots * Mme Tlank and Mira Mattar on motherly love, care and capital * Stefan Szczelkun on Gregory Sholette's book, Dark Matter * Anustup Basu on the Arab Spring * Sander on why China won't save capitalism

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Connecting People Apart

A free eBook reader compiled from the Mute magazine article archive for the Post-Media Lab, a new collaboration Mute is embarking on that will explore the following themes as part of the overall framework of the lab.

Digital Networks: Connecting People Apart, The Subsumption of Sociality, The Question of Organisation, Acting within Non-Human Ontologies

Download as ePub and Kindle, or HTML5 for the other types screen readers (text only) .

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Politics Here is Death

Psychogeophysical Summit - Crossbones Cemetery, London 7 August 2010

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.

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The Shacks Fight Back - a talk by Richard Pithouse

In collaboration Mute with Soho hosted a talk by contributer Richard Pithouse of the South African Shack Dwellers' Movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo in June 2007.

The Shacks Fight Back - a talk by Richard Pithouse video documentation

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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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