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Bangladesh: 'State of Emergency' powers extended and tightened - strikes & demonstrations banned, media gagged

By Ret Marut 30 January 2007

Workers' massive actions and protests against the garment industry and govt in Bangladesh have continued (another 5 factories burned down last we...

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Swarm Forms: On Platforms and Creativity

By Olga Guriunova 29 January 2007

Will the ‘hive mind’ of social networking replace classical forms of knowledge production? Comparing Web 2.0 and small-scale, self-run cultural pl...

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The Long Tale

By Giorgio Agostoni 29 January 2007

Web 2.0 relies heavily on identikit forms of self-representation and sociability. Parallel to the ‘authentic’, self-promoting personae of ...

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The Social SoftWar

By Angela Mitropoulos 29 January 2007

Do blogs and social network-based sites offer the prospect of a democratic sociability without borders or wars? Should unpaid producers of content str...

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InfoEnclosure 2.0

By Dmytri Kleiner & Brian Wyrick 29 January 2007

The hype surrounding Web 2.0’s ability to democratise content production obscures its centralisation of ownership and the means of sharing. Dmytri K...

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Faustian Bargains and Pineapple Shampoo

By Merijn Oudenampsen and Jakob Proyer 29 January 2007

Since the early days of the net, the electronic pastoral has lent itself to all sorts of dubious agendas pushed by science, the military and even libe...

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Constructing Neoliberal Glasgow: The Privatisation Of Space

By Friend of Zanetti 27 January 2007

Reposting this from the perenially great Variant magazine (issue 25, www.variant.org.uk). It's an excellent overview of urban 'regeneration&...

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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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