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Soft hands from baby bonds

By Infuriant 30 December 2007

In Mute 2.6 fictitious capital collided with hypermetrical verse distemper[*].  What follows makes matters worse by further entangling these thin...

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Magna Carta, mucho rewardo

By Robert Shrimsley 21 December 2007

A Peter Linebaugh piece on the Magna Carta auction appeared on Counterpunch a few days ago (http://www.counterpunch.org/linebaugh12152007.html). ...

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Eco-imperialism at the Bali summit?

By James Heartfield 19 December 2007

Brief historicization (from www.spiked-online.com) of the latest inter-governmental eco-policy deal, looking into the way certain branches of capital ...

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All We Have Is Music

By jabber 18 December 2007

Such unexpected things happen: I came to Britain from Belarus, to which I can return only as a dissident, only to find myself in touch with my ex-comp...

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Financial Whodunwhats?/ Morgan Stanley recession alert

By Speculative Identity / (Why Didn't They Ask) Ambrose (Evans)-Pritchard 13 December 2007

As after a violent crime, when detectives set upon the forensic residues of a now absent conflict, we may approach the papers as the scene of a financ...

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Irony 2.0

By Pil and Galia Kollectiv 11 December 2007

Ironic distance is ambiguous. It grounds both critique and detached resignation to the status quo. What becomes of it in the viral world of web 2.0?, ...

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The Few and the Many

By A. Andreas 8 December 2007

The Few and the ManyCulture as the social outcome of tensions between the few and the many obviously has a firm political component. This component ha...

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The Conditions of Possibility: Tributes to Marina Vishmidt 1976-2024 (I)

By Mute Collective 6 June 2024

Marina Vishmidt, a much loved and deeply formative contributor for our magazine from its early years, tragically passed away at the end of April. The ...

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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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