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Copyfarleft and Copyjustright

By Dmytri Kleiner 18 July 2007

Challenges to traditional copyright resulting from peer-to-peer applications, free software, filesharing and appropriation art have caused a wide rang...

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Notes on Why it Matters that Heiligendamm Felt like Winning

By Ben Trott 11 July 2007

[Original source: http://transform.eipcp.net/correspondence/1183458348] “Weapons are affects and affects weapons” – Deleuze and G...

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Exodus

By Paul Helliwell 11 July 2007

In her recent anthology Participation, Claire Bishop targets the suspect utopianism of relational aesthetics – a new model public art for the ag...

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Poor people are not a threat to social order : The real threat comes from attempts to expel them from the city

By Imraan BuccusI\'m pasting up some updates from our friends at Abahlali here. The initial announcement of an international conference on poverty held in Durban is followed by a report of a mass action by shack dwellers against it: 10 July 2007

http://www.abahlali.org/node/1636http://www.themercury.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3904353 Poor people are not a threat to social order The real threa...

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Defending Anonymity

By Anarchist Federation 9 July 2007

This Anarchist Federation analysis of the National (UK) ID Database, parts of which are already up and running with no need for cards, needs to be rea...

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The Magic of Debt, or, Amortise This!

By Brett Neilson 5 July 2007

Today we don’t feel guilty about incurring debts, just the opposite – indebtedness is the entry price of being a good citizen, pulling more and mo...

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Watering our Pocketbooks: Should Canada Move to Privatisation of Water?

By Nima Maleki 3 July 2007

Originally in Report on Positivity: Canada has had some convulsions over the issue of water before and since the Walkerton, Ontario E. coli infections...

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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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