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Gentrifying Disaster In New Orleans: Ethnic Cleansing, GOP-Style

By Mute 17 January 2006

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The Predators of New Orleans - Mike Davis

By Mike Davis 17 January 2006

After the criticism of his disastrous handling the Katrina disaster, President George Bush promises a reconstruction programme of $200bn for areas des...

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Toni Negri: 'Here it is, finally, the revolt. But for the revolution there's time'

By by Jacopo Jacoboni (interview with Antonio Negri) 17 January 2006

Published La Stampa, November 13 2005. Negri's comic response to the French riots focusses like many others upon the apparent novelty of a moveme...

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Planet of Slums

By Mike Davis 11 January 2006

Article re-posted from New Left Review March-April 2004 Sometime in the next year, a woman will give birth in the Lagos slum of Ajegunle, a young man...

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Coffin for the Councillor
(or, The Left in the Slums)

By Richard Pithouse 11 January 2006

 Re-posted from Interactivist. This text is ostensibly a report on struggles for housing, sanitation and utiliities in Durban South Africa but al...

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Paris Burning but Not Queer

By Dr Melinda Cooper 10 January 2006

This text was posted to Nettime Fri, 18 Nov 2005. It is an uncommon response to the riots in France in 2005, a series of events that has drawn a great...

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The Old New Clothes of the French Republic: In Defense of the Supposedly 'insignificant' Rioters

By Yann Moulier-Boutang 10 January 2006

Re-posted from Le Manifeste Major events are not necessarily beautiful, nor joyous. They take you by surprise. They do not necessarily produce integra...

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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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