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Lower, Less Barren Plateaus

By Stefan Szczelkun 24 July 2012

Can the rarefied writing of '80s art theorists offer anything to a reconsideration of the theory-shunning Brixton Artists Gallery of the same era? Ste...

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The Gender Rift in Communisation

By P. Valentine 17 July 2012

In a contested 'swerve' in debates around communisation, issues of gender, class and race are coming to the fore. Reviewing key texts in this debate, ...

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Don't Panic, Organise! A Mute Magazine Pamphlet on Recent Struggles in Education

By mute 20 January 2011

If you are fighting the cuts to the UK's education system (occupying, sitting in, demonstrating, planning further actions), <i>Mute</i> wi...

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When Nothing is Produced

By Marcel Stoetzler 16 September 2009

Bourgeois society's reduction of sexuality to the logic of (re)production results in a series of rigid dichotomies. Drawing on a rich history of radic...

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Toward Agonism: Moishe Postone's Time, Labour & Social Domination

By Howard Slater 28 June 2006

There has been intense discussion of the notion of 'immaterial labour' recently. Initially proposed by Maurizio Lazzarato and famously deployed by Har...

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Introduction – Proud To Be Flesh

By Pauline van Mourik Broekman and Simon Worthington, and Josephine Berry Slater 21 September 2012

Introduction to Proud to be Flesh — Foreword Pauline van Mourik Broekman and Simon Worthington The distillation of 15 years of ...

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Chapter 9: Introduction - The Open Work

By tomclark 21 September 2012

Introduction to Chapter 9 of Proud to be Flesh - The Open Work —   Finally you are no more than an imitation of an actor. Fried...

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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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