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Chapter 6: Introduction - Assuming the Position: Art and/Against Business

By Josephine Berry Slater 20 September 2012

Introduction to Chapter 6 of Proud to be Flesh - Assuming the Position: Art and/Against Business —   I want to burn down all you...

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The Garden of Earthly Delights

By Matthew Fuller 19 September 2012

Establishing a temporary experimental research station within spitting distance of East London's Olympic Park, The Crystal World proposed to decrystal...

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The feral underclass hits the streets: On the English riots and other ordeals

By Rocamadur/Blaumachen 12 September 2012

The dangerous classes represent what has become universal as a dynamic for the proletariat at large: the lumpenisation of the wage relation. There is no longer a ground for a workers’ identity or proletarian community, nothing to be liberated, no craftsmanship or human nature. The ephemeral ‘us’ of the rioters, this transient subject of destructive practices that appears momentarily only to rapidly dissolve, is the impossibility of a permanence of the Subject. The overcoming of the limit of struggles is today the attack on the very existence of the class of proletarians.

 

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Atelier: artists at work on site Tamsyn Challenger | David Crawforth | Judith Dean | Rachel Garfield | Bruce Gilbert |Naomi Siderfin | Caroline Wright

By Beaconsfield 8 September 2012

  Atelier: artists at work on site Tamsyn Challenger | David Crawforth | Judith Dean | Rachel Garfield | Bruce Gilbert |Naomi Siderfin | Caro...

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Gimme the Loot

By Gavin Mueller 29 August 2012

  From Zizek to Badiou, I'm not much swayed by the revival of Jacobin politics, but who can not like the Toussaint/Boukman? silhouet...

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Crises Capitalism and Independence Doctrines

By Gordon Asher and Leigh French 28 August 2012

An open letter/essay proposing to establish dialogue over Scottish independence       Cr...

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The Housing Monster

By anthony 23 August 2012

THE HOUSING MONSTER and HOUSING CRISIS? Two recent publications focusing on housing. From Prole.info The Housing Monster takes one seemingly simple...

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Mute Archive Move

By mute 27 June 2022

This June and July the Mute magazine archive is being moved from its current home in a shipping container a hundred miles north of London to a new smaller space in Berlin.

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Mute Archive Move

By mute 27 June 2022

#mutearchive Buy here: https://archive.metamute.org/  Contact: simon@metamute.org DM @MuteMagazine  This June and July the Mute mag...

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25 Artists and Cultural Workers Divest from Zabludowicz

By BDZ Group (hosted in solidarity by Mute Magazine) 27 July 2021

BDZ Press Release  On 26th July, twenty-five cultural workers announced their divestment and disaffiliation from Zabludowicz Art Projects, the...

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Violence and Other Non-Political Actions in the New Cycle of Revolt

By Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen 4 April 2021

Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen contrasts Judith Butler's democratic analysis of Occupy in Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly with the concept of pe...

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Cars, Riots & Black Liberation

By Shemon and Arturo 17 November 2020

The US saw some of the largest riots and protests in its history this year in response to the continuing police murder of black people – most recent...

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Eulogy for David Graeber

By Sophie Carapetian 19 October 2020

David Graeber, academic, anthropologist and revolutionary died on 4 September, 2020 in hospital in Venice. To mark his passing and celebrate his life ...

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Struggle against the Algorithm: A View from the Trenches at Reading University

By Anonymous 21 September 2020

The pay and jobs dispute at Reading University is just one battlefield amongst many, linked to a broad pattern of algorithmically and financially...

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Primer′

By Benedict Seymour 15 August 2020

Benedict Seymour's speculative fiction on the post-internet artworld in London dates from June 2013 but points forward to the apotheosis of Trump (dev...

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Adversarial Infrastructure: The Crimean Bridge

By Anna Engelhardt 7 July 2020

Covid-19 relentlessly exposes the destructive preconditions of capitalism today. But states which 'make work and let die' on a pandemic scale as they ...

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Three Class Struggles and a Funeral

By Danny Hayward 18 June 2020

In his review of the recent book Class Power on Zero-Hours (PM Press, 2020), Danny Hayward reflects with enthusiasm on AngryWorkers' attempt...

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Class Power on Zero-Hours (excerpt)

By AngryWorkers 18 June 2020

To coincide with Danny Hayward's review of Class Power on Zero-Hours we asked the AngryWorkers for permission to publish two excerpts from their recen...

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This isn't a Virus, it's a Time Machine

By Benedict Seymour 16 May 2020

In a 2015 London Review of Books essay Fredric Jameson briefly imagines the Bolshevik Party as a kind of time machine. The party is a device by mean...

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