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The Lessons of 2011: Three Theses on Organisation

By Rodrigo Nunes 7 June 2012

Moving beyond the conceptual polarisation of tight-knit vanguardist parties and loose-tie virtual networks, Rodrigo Nunes sifts the residue of last ye...

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The Last Time Machine

By Robert Barry 31 May 2012

The west used to dream of travel to the future, but since the ’70s all roads seem to lead to either dystopia or nostalgia for the past. Robert Barry...

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Cybernetic Magic

By Andrew Pickering 24 May 2012

Following two exhibitions of Suzanne Treister’s multimedia project HEXEN2.0 at the Science Museum and Work Gallery this Spring, cybernetic historian...

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No Interest But the Interest of Breathing

By Clinical Wasteman 15 May 2012

This is not in any normal sense a review of David Graeber's book, which is erudite yet non-specialist, often brilliant and always fiercely ...

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Geraldine Goat – The Hard Way To Enlightenment

By Katrina Palmer 9 May 2012

Stephan Dillemuth's film installation, The Hard Way to Enlightenment, deployed a live goat in an immanent critique of privatisation and its ...

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Orgy of the Non/Self

By Josephine Berry Slater 1 May 2012

Yayoi Kusama’s current Tate Modern retrospective provokes Josephine Berry Slater to join the dots of the artist’s agonising and ecstatic constella...

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Bloomsbury Olympic

By Richard Braude 24 April 2012

As the 2012 London Olympics looms, construction and education – two poles of an economy of despair – are to meet in East London. Richard Braude dr...

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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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