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The ‘Not’ of Speculative Realism

By Giorgio Cesarale 19 February 2014

Is the movement formerly known as Speculative Realism really as weird as it would wish, or is its free floating negativity the index of a different ki...

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Wandering Abstraction

By Ray Brassier 13 February 2014

Developing a presentation given at the Accelerationism symposium in Berlin December 2013, Ray Brassier draws upon the divergent theories of ...

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Epistemic Panic and the Problem of Life

By Josephine Berry Slater 13 February 2014

In this transcript of a presentation given at the Accelerationism symposium in Berlin December 2013, Josephine Berry Slater questions whether, in the ...

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Changing Our Minds: A Journey to the Centre of the Brain

By Hannah Proctor & Michael Runyan 4 February 2014

Humans make their own history, but contemporary philosophy seems to be adapting the neo-colonial perspectives of neuroscience to dismiss the idea this...

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The Distribution of the Insensible

By Nathan Brown 28 January 2014

Setting out from a strong critique of the aesthetics of Jacques Rancière, Nathan Brown reappraises the relationship between labour, physicality and m...

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Comets & Barricades: Insurrectionary Imagination in Exile

By Sean Bonney 9 January 2014

Imagine history as an infernal kaleidoscopic system in which capital and its cops eternally return to shut down all possibilities of freedom. Could po...

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Clean Digital Dancing

By Marco Donnarumma 9 January 2014

If dance becomes dance only by way of thought, as Stamatia Portanova suggests in her new book Moving Without a Body, what happens to movement and the ...

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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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