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Crisis in the Cleaning Sector

By Richard Braude 18 December 2013

  Struggle in the UK may have seemed at a low ebb post-2011, but outsourced cleaners' and other low-paid workers' campaigns for better wages a...

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We Hate the Users: An Interview with UBERMORGEN

By Stevphen Shukaitis 18 December 2013

Several decades after the birth of artivism and net art, UBERMORGEN continue to make art with and about networked society. But where net art 1.0 was l...

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Art at the Interface of Data and Image

By Ruth Watson 11 December 2013

Maps give a sense of objective knowledge and hence mastery of the world. In her review of artist Laura Kurgan’s book Close Up at a Distance: Mapping...

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A letter of support for Irina Putilova from the Post-Soviet left community

By mute 7 December 2013

Irina Putilova, an LGBTQ activist and artist, is in detention at Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre. She is scheduled for fast-track removal to Ru...

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Open Letter from staff at University of London colleges against the criminalisation of student protest

By mute 7 December 2013

  Wednesday night’s eviction of a student occupation of the University of London’s Senate House building crossed another threshold in...

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View from a Kill

By Kate Rich 3 December 2013

The morally disgusting asymmetry of drones relates not only to their deployment by the powerful against the weak, but also to the radical disparity of...

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Down with Childhood and Adulthood

By Madame Tlank & Clinical Wasteman 21 November 2013

Life under capitalism is a supermax creche in which ‘neither growing up nor working hard will do you any good’. Madame Tlank and Clinical Wasteman...

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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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