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The Re-Occupation

By Anthony Iles & Benedict Seymour 1 December 2005

In protest against evictions, sell offs and corruption in Hackney east London, a group of locals, activists and squatters this week reoccupied a café...

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Dancing With The Wolves: The Riots In France

By Yves Coleman 30 November 2005

The riots of the past 2 weeks may be seen as a long overdue political response to the profound racism of French society, but, according to Yves Colema...

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Of Deep Throats and Shallow Thought

By Sebastian Olma 28 November 2005

A new zone of media theory, netporn, revealed itself at this October’s The Art and Politics of Netporn conference in Amsterdam. Willing voyeur S...

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Charters of Liberty in Black Face and White Face: Race, Slavery and the Commons

By Peter Linebaugh 23 November 2005

The Magna Carta is renowned as the 'Charter of Liberty' which inspired modern constitutional safeguards against the power of the State. But its smalle...

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Copy That Floppy!

By Palle Torsson 23 November 2005

The Pirate Bay, a tracker website based in Sweden, has become the most popular BitTorrent site in the world and now receives more daily hits than CNN....

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FLOSS Redux: Notes on African Software Politics

By Soenke Zehle 23 November 2005

The info-technological development of Africa is providing a critical laboratory for testing the utilitarian and egalitarian claims of the FLOSS commun...

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Freedom's Standard Advanced?

By Benjamin Mako Hill 23 November 2005

Creative Commons and the Free Software Movement Just how many licences do we need to preserve freedom? Benjamin Mako Hill uses his experience in 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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