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Gender Dimensions of Floss Development

By Yuwei Lin 23 November 2005

The FLOSS ideal of equality, inclusivity and freeness is sadly let down by the gender imbalance of its participants, with women comprising just over 1...

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Patently Obvious

By Simon Worthington 23 November 2005

The OpenMute project explains its approach to the public domain after four years of using and contributing to FLOSS As a sister project of Mute, and...

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Reality check: Are We Living In An Immaterial World?

By Steve Wright 23 November 2005

Immaterial Labour is seen by (post)Marxists and capitalists alike as the motor of the new economy. Steve Wright recovers Marx's theory of value from c...

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State Wide Shut

By Gregor Claude 23 November 2005

A recent report, Wide Open, by the think tank Demos takes the metaphor of open source and runs with it – right into the closed kernel of the mod...

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Free Labour Or Social Sculpture?

By Mute 23 November 2005

If the production and dissemination of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) is a social movement, then what is its constituency and what is it figh...

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When America Sneezes…

By Josephine Berry Slater 23 November 2005

Amidst current fears over the avian influenza pandemic, the protection of human life and the protection of Intellectual Property (IP) is hanging in th...

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Of Deep Throats and Shallow Thought (The Art and Politics of Netporn)

By Sebastian Olma 21 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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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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