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Cash Cows and Job Poachers? Non-EU Students and Austerity Politics

By Kirsten Forkert 11 October 2012

The recent fiasco over the London Metropolitan University’s recruitment of non-EU students has exposed their widespread mistreatment as both cash co...

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Manifesto for a Theory of the ‘New Aesthetic’

By Curt Cloninger 3 October 2012

At this high-point of high-tech, machines are producing aesthetic experiences for us as never before. Should we respectfully thank them and ...

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The Ghosts of Participation Past

By Josephine Berry Slater 2 October 2012

Claire Bishop's new book, Artificial Hells, considers the history of participation as an organising principle of avant-garde art, but also o...

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Origin and Extinction, Mourning and Melancholia

By Nathan Brown 9 September 2012

If extinction is inscribed into and necessary for the emergence of life, how, asks Nathan Brown, can we ever integrate the mourned object into our mat...

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JEXUS

By John Russell 28 August 2012

In this text John Russell joins up the 'O's between the ecstatic mouth and the anus to create a tunnel connecting web porn, philosophy and r...

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John Maynard Nothing

By Danny Hayward 5 August 2012

The name of Keynes and Keynesianism have been bandied about endlessly in the four years since the crisis of 2008. Danny Hayward examines the orthodoxi...

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Ex Nihilo

By Michael Reid 1 August 2012

Quentin Meillassoux's new book revisits a rather well-worn modernist artefact, Stéphane Mallarmé's epic poem A Throw of Dice Will Never Abolish...

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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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