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The Maid and the Money-Form

By Alberto Toscano 25 April 2014

Capital is going on around us all the time and yet, like gravity, we cannot see it except in its effects. A promising hypothesis, but Isaac Julien’s...

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Pyramid Dead - The Artangel of History

By Christopher Jones 17 April 2014

The Heygate Estate has stood partially empty for several years, a living monument to the expulsion, AKA ‘regeneration’, of working class populatio...

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Liverpool's Docks, Dust and Dirt

By Brian Ashton, David Jacques, Steve Toombs & David Whyte 4 April 2014

While recycling is promoted as universally positive the material processes associated with recycling itself are potentially dangerous. Essays by Brian...

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The Technical Composition of Conceptualism

By Joshua Clover 2 April 2014

If the last four decades of protracted crisis stem from the increasing productivity of capitalist technology, how does culture index this and how (els...

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Value-Form and Avant-Garde

By Daniel Spaulding 27 March 2014

  The theory of programmatism describes the struggle of labour to affirm itself as a class within and against capital. Here Daniel Spaulding e...

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Keeping up with the Pavlovs

By Danny Hayward 19 March 2014

Critics of the grand enterprise of 'crisis-driven' poverty management often take special umbrage at Michael Gove's educational 'Victorianism'. In this...

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Captives of Combination

By Josephine Berry Slater 18 March 2014

In this double review of exhibitions by Camille Henrot and Hannah Höch on display in East London galleries this spring, Josephine Berry Slater sees h...

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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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