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Social software: fiction, action-at-a-distance and dolls

By Nancy Mauro-Flude 19 April 2006

I would like to share my perspective on 'social software' in order to introduce some thoughts about its potentiality, where not only people...

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Autonomism in Argentina in a new Governmentality

By Graciela Monteagudo 13 April 2006

This essay from interactivist.net goes into detail on many issues behind what went wrong in Argentina and tries to answer the question: 'how did ...

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Art-Place-Technology conference, Liverpool

By Mute 12 April 2006

The Art - Place - Technology International Symposium on Curating New Media Art took place at The School of Art and Design and FACT in Liverpool 30 Mar...

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Images Of Fire - The banlieue riots and the unanswered question of the welfare state

By Brian Holmes 3 April 2006

From Kein.org, posted by Florian Schneider Here is a slightly extended version of the text Brian Holmes read on Sunday night, at the Boell Founda...

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The Precarious-Euro Insurrection

By Franco "Bifo" Berardi 2 April 2006

Sketchy thoughts from Bifo on the current struggle and recombination in France. I think he dramatises a process that has taken its points of organisa...

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The Nature of NODE.London

By Mute 29 March 2006

In February a feisty discussion about NODE.London's month long season of media arts projects unfurled on the CRUMB (curatorial resource for upsta...

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Context is the New Pretext

By Finn SmithBehind the book’s attempts to discuss a loose tendency in current art practice, Finn Smith detects in Contemporary Art from Studio to Situation an effort to homogenise and reduce to a market friendly genre art that takes social relations as its subject and material. This discursive homogenisation abounds even while this recent publication, edited by Claire Doherty, insists on the fragmentary effects of art’s commited engagement with context and communities 28 March 2006

I enjoyed reading this book by treating it as a pleasant compendium of short stories. I’m not keen on the title though: Contemporary Art from St...

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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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