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The Pedagogy of Negating the Institution

By Jakob Jakobsen 14 November 2013

As market logic moulds institutions of learning, treatment and therapy ever more brazenly, co-founder of the Cophenhagen Free University, Jakob Jakobs...

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Lotta Poetica

By Howard Slater 6 November 2013

The Arab Spring is well known for the movement of the Squares and the explosion of demands for democracy and an end to corruption in the Middle East. ...

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The Speculative Horror Academy

By John Cunningham 23 October 2013

A gothic ruin provides the heady setting for John Cunningham’s short story exploring horror as a condition for contemporary thought   The...

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Speculative Architectures

By Jeremy Lecomte 2 October 2013

Do algorithms think? Do buildings speculate? In his review of Luciana Parisi’s recent book, Contagious Architecture, Jeremy Lecomte considers her cl...

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Populous Front

By Howard Slater 25 September 2013

Howard Slater explores the vicissitudes of popular unity, from the history of compromises by variously aligned popular fronts to recent struggles in w...

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After Participation

By Marina Gerber 19 September 2013

A new book on Russian conceptualists, Collective Actions Group, finally translates audience responses into English, pushing them to the fore. In her r...

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The Shadow of Ikea-ification Falls On Us All

By Hannah Black 10 September 2013

A recent exhibition, The Whole Earth: California and the Disappearance of the Outside, interrogated what pale blue fragments lie in the wake of the wh...

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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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