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La Jetée’s Spiral

By Benedict Seymour 5 January 2012

The image's mediation of the past is far from nostalgically comforting, writes Benedict Seymour in his review of Les Marques Aveugles at the Centre d'...

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Trading Futures, Consolidating Student Debt

By Angela Mitropoulos 20 December 2011

With a mass default on US student debt threatening to create the next subprime crisis, Angela Mitropoulos dissects the pious injunction to ‘live within ones means', reminding us that to do so has always implied the back-breaking, often immeasurable work of others.

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Stupid Regulators and Greedy Financiers or Business as Usual?

By Chris Wright 13 December 2011

As the occupy movement in the US this week shifts its attention from the shiny crystallisations of high finance to the hubs of material circulation, C...

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The Illegitimacy of Demands

By Dimitra Kotouza 7 December 2011

With demands over the wage and welfare in austerity Greece deemed illegitimate because unaffordable, what shape can struggle take? Dimitra Kotouza see...

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Style Without Subversion

By Gail Day 29 November 2011

The V&A’s Postmodernism exhibition acted like an industrial trawler, disembedding three decades of cultural artefacts from their diverse ecologi...

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FTH: The Savage and Beyond

By Howard Slater 22 November 2011

Howard Slater grasps the August riots as the appearance of an ‘unrecognisable demos’ which challenges the very ability of capitalist democracy to ...

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Book Launch, 8th December 2011

By mute 20 November 2011

Book Launch, 8th December 2011, 6.30pm – 9.00pm   The Showroom, 63 Penfold Street, London, NW8 8PQ RSVP via Facebook   &nbs...

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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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