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Object Oriented Marxism?

By Simon Mussell 28 August 2013

Reconceiving man's relations to matter and the world of objects was not always the politically insipid theoretical pastime it has become. Here, S...

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The Anti-Political Aesthetics of Objects and Worlds Beyond

By Svenja Bromberg 25 July 2013

Now that immaterial and affective labour seem to be waning as subjects for art, a fascination with the radical contingency of the material world has g...

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A Stitch in Time: The ‘Orchestrated Networks’ of Bloody Taylorism

By John Barker 3 July 2013

From its beginnings, the sewing machine’s role in shaping global capitalism has been crucial. In today’s high-tech and globalised production lands...

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Performative Equations and Neoliberal Commodification: The Case of Climate

By Larry Lohmann 25 June 2013

In Vol 3 #4, Mute attempted to wrap its collective brain around the steep abstractions of one of capitalism’s strangest products: HFT algorithm...

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Almagestum Contemporarium

By Tzuchien Tho 19 June 2013

In his dense bomb of a book, Fernando Zalamea updates the relationship between contemporary mathematics and philosophy. What is proposed is a syntheti...

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I've Seen Gardens, Compared with Which this Would be a Wilderness

By Martin Howse 11 June 2013

Stanislaw Lem’s 1964 opus, Summa Technolgiae, has only just been translated into English. Over half a century later, Lem’s work stands as an aston...

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Wanderings of the Slave: Black life and Social Death

By R.L. 5 June 2013

For the theorists of Afro-pessimism, black non-existence forms a negativity against which white liveliness and freedom defines itself positively. Surv...

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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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