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Postscript (p.s. Forever)

By Rózsa Farkas and Harry Burke 5 June 2013

If all surfaces and gestures are mediated by capital, how can we imagine them becoming a ground for struggle? An experimental text by Rózsa Farkas an...

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Nice Monsters and Scary Sprites

By Mira Mattar 28 May 2013

  Harmony Korine's recent film Spring Breakers doesn't exactly reward stringent sociological critique. His use of manipulative, ...

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RIOTING WITH REASON: FROM ENGLAND TO SWEDEN AND BACK AGAIN

By Nina Power 27 May 2013

Why do English sociologists and politicians find riots so much more explicable when they happen overseas? Nina Power finds an international logic...

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2 Responses to the Riots in Sweden

By Megafonen and Pantrarna 25 May 2013

Pantrarna (The Panthers) and the sister organization Megafonen (The Megaphone) are two community activist groups based in Swedish suburbs. Pantrarna a...

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Weaponise Aunt Hester’s Scream

By Sacha Kahir 22 May 2013

In an expanded review of Arika 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle, part of an ongoing series of mini-festivals, Sacha Kahir listens to the anguished la...

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In the Junkyard of Wrecked Fictions

By Andrey Shental 14 May 2013

Artist and film-maker Hito Steyerl has been a key thinker of the relationship between the fragmentary landscape of global networked images and contemp...

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Good Old Avant-Garde

By Bill Roberts 7 May 2013

Does the institutional embrace of collaborative and interventionist art spell the end of the avant-gardist attack on art as a bourgeois individualist ...

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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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