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Editorial Mute 3 #2

By Josephine Berry Slater 22 February 2012

In more ‘ordinary’ times, the sense of all those unwritten articles we’d like to commission for Mute can be quite overwhelming. Just working thr...

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Bitcoin – finally, fair money?

By The Wine and Cheese Appreciation Society of Greater London and Scott Lenney 21 February 2012

Bitcoin is a decentralised digital currency deploying peer-to-peer networking to enable secure and anonymous transactions without a central bank. Unli...

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Riot Polit-Econ

By Khalid Qureshi Foundation and Chelsea Ives Youth Centre 17 February 2012

In this riposte to the moral backlash against the UK’s August riots, The Khalid Qureshi Foundation & Chelsea Ives Youth Centre survey the ‘imm...

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The Dark Arts

By Stefan Szczelkun 15 February 2012

Gregory Sholette’s book, Dark Matter, provides a useful collectivising term for those artists who produce the art world from below. But, wonders Ste...

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Glass Architecture – A Riotous Mythology

By Mark Crinson 9 February 2012

The act of smashing glass can reveal the material's most troubling quality: its transparency may invite us to look, but not necessarily to enter. Mark...

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Adventures in the Sausage Factory: A Cursory Overview of UK University Struggles, November 2010 – July 2011

By Danny Hayward 25 January 2012

Nearly a year after the attenuation of a wave of further and higher education struggles against state-led ‘decomposition’, Danny Hayward looks bac...

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Children of the Grave vs Moloch

By Cameron Bain 13 January 2012

The exhibition, Home of Metal, celebrates forty years of heavy metal music while foregrounding Birmingham’s industrial past. In an act of ‘dedicat...

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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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