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Crime Scene Investigation

By Benedict Seymour 20 August 2012

Shot at while eating alfresco in Broadway Market, E8. I think it's some kind of karma. Certainly another episode for the East London Book of the Dead....

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The Marikana Mine Worker's Massacre – a Massive Escalation in the War on the Poor

By Ayanda Kota 19 August 2012

Reposted from: http://abahlali.org/node/9035 8 August 2012     The Marikana Mine Worker's Massacre – a Massive Escalatio...

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A Critical Review of Anarchism & the City

By PG 16 August 2012

Reposted from The Anvil http://theanvilreview.org/ May 24, 2012 By pg Note from author: This review was orphaned from another an...

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Editorial Mute 3 #3

By Josephine Berry Slater 15 August 2012

In this issue of Mute, a disagreement over the politics of the ‘We are the 99%’ slogan emerges in articles by Clinical Wasteman and Nick Thoburn. ...

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Mute Vol. 3, No. 3 - Becoming Impersonal

By Mute 15 August 2012

The ways in which the personal can be grasped as political is an exponentially productive legacy of second wave feminism. This idea connects the argum...

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Noam Chomsky: Politics or Science?

By chris knight 12 August 2012

  For over fifty years, Noam Chomsky has been exposing the crimes of the United States military across the world. Less well known is the fact th...

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Serco gain sole control of NHS Hospital for the first time in a £160m deal

By Dr Eoin Clarke 29 July 2012

  Whilst one nurse defends the cost of bouncing around on hospital beds for a daft spectacle intended to induce short-lived national euphoria...

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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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