Urbanism

Bread soup that sprouts trees, redundant sex replicants gone feral and art publics harnessed to sort e-trash – artist and film director Shu Lea Cheang’s work knows no bounds. In conversation with Matthew Fuller, she discusses the polymorphous pleasure of jamming social, technical and organic circuits

Hackney Council in the East End of London plan to drop CLR James's name from a public library in fashionable Dalston. As the UK regime of austerity deepens, should we be fighting for symbolic concessions to those deleted or displaced by gentrification, or is it time for a more material response?, asks Ben Seymour

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