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Commercial Commons

By researchers at the Economic Observatory of the University of Openess 23 November 2004

Creative Commons advertise their licenses as the best-of-both-worlds between copyright and the public domain. But is the word 'commons' then a misnome...

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Fooling the Present, F***ing the Future

By London Rising Tide 1 November 2004

Climate justice direct action group London Rising Tide visits the Science Museum's new exhibition, Energy - Fuelling the Future, nearly drowns in...

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Marketing Electoralism in the USA

By Scott Evans 19 October 2004

Scott Evans of the Committee to Elect No One [www.votenoone04.com] reports on the sometimes surreal, relentlessly commercialised drive to 'get ou...

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Five Years

By James Cooper 11 October 2004

In 1992, 1,700 of the leading scientists in the world put their names to a document that was released to the press and which included the following ph...

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Pandaemonium 1998

By Nelly Voorhuis 8 October 2004

The second Pandaemonium Festival didn't lie beneath a lucky star this year. As so often in the art world, it's much easier to find money to ...

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The day the circus came to town (Isea98, Consensus politics and the Festival Syndrome)

By Pauline van Mourik Broekman 7 October 2004

It has become a commonplace to describe the array of electronic and media art festivals held throughout Europe today as a travelling circus. Suggestin...

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Precarity and n/european Identity: (an interview with Alex Foti (ChainWorkers))

By by Merijn Oudenampsen and Gavin Sullivan 6 October 2004

This interview took place in July 2004 at the Mill Squat in Amsterdam, during the period it was liberated from the destiny of selling 'traditiona...

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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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