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What Next For Education Struggles

By Sarah Taylor 1 November 2011

After last August’s riots Sarah Taylor asks, will the contradictions of last year’s student movement resolve or simply extend themselves? &nbs...

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Rewire Yourself

By Lorena Rivero de Beer 20 October 2011

  Liverpool's recent Rewire conference looked to advance new and progressive readings of media art and theory. But, asks Lorena Rivero de Bee...

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Insect Oriented Media Theory

By Jennifer Gabrys 6 October 2011

Jussi Parikka's recent book Insect Media simultaneously expands the field of media theory and the purview of biopolitics by thinking about the more-th...

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Reflections on the Arab Spring

By Anustup Basu 22 September 2011

Twittering teens or absolutist ayatollahs, men we can do business with or loony autocrats? The media’s proliferation of polarities is a strategy to ...

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Squatting and the Tories

By Andrea Tocchini 17 September 2011

In the slipstream of a media campaign Tories are quickly gaining momentum for a new initiative to criminalise squatting in England and Wales. Andrea T...

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Dear Living Person II: Story of the Eyes

By John Russell 14 September 2011

As the image of Margaret Thatcher circulates through the media ecology, John Russell's public art work in Southend-on-Sea works to redirect its affect...

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Spaghetti Communism?

By Benjamin Noys 1 September 2011

If Westerns allegorise a mythical space of gradual resolution and order, the western all’italiana explodes the American dream of stabilising prosper...

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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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