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The Netherlands: from Multiculturalism to Forced Integration

By Eric Krebbers 24 May 2006

Dutch parliamentary democracy has long worn the mask of multi-culturalism, but its swing to the right in recent years has exposed the limits of Hollan...

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Free Speech as Shibboleth: on the Danish Cartoons

By Benedict Seymour 24 May 2006

How did the racist provocation of Muslims turn into a debate about free speech? If the discourse of freedom acts as a mechanism of exclusion and both ...

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Acts of God and Enclosures in New Orleans

By George Caffentzis 24 May 2006

The relief effort in New Orleans has had far graver implications for the city’s inhabitants than the physical devastation of hurricane Katrina – i...

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Show Some Disrespect!

By Daniel Jewesbury 24 May 2006

If multiculturalism has become a toxic mix of regressive relativism and biopolitical control, what comes next? Daniel Jewesbury retraces its developme...

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Dividing the species: Race, Science and Culture

By Marek Kohn and Luciana Parisi 24 May 2006

For decades the notion that race has any grounds in biology has been taboo. Ethnic and racial characteristics are cultural constructs, and science has...

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Disrespecting Multifundamentalism

By Melancholic Troglodytes 24 May 2006

The term ‘respect!’ has gone from rude boy subcultural slang to reactionary Third Way spin, from grassroots contestation of power, to tool for dis...

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The Values on the Ground: Multiculturalism and the War on Terror

By Hari Kunzru 24 May 2006

For a government waging a War on Terror based on the clash between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ values, multiculturalism is losing its app...

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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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