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The Importance of Being Earnest, or Not

By Christopher Collier 25 July 2011

Two recent books focusing on the Situationist International, Expect Anything Fear Nothing and The Beach Beneath the Street, salvage the plurality of t...

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Past Caring

By Madame Tlank and Mira Mattar 19 July 2011

A study day on Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care at Birkbeck University in May 2011 provoked two writers to examine the politics, pieti...

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Phonurgia Novissima: Sound Meets the Internet

By Eleonora Oreggia 12 July 2011

The recent edition of the Netaudio festival, staged in London, posed the question of the sonic and musical properties specific to the internet. Multi...

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Short Circuits: Finance, Feedback and Culture

By Benedict Seymour 5 July 2011

Thanks to the pervasive logic of cybernetics and the planetary roll-out of digital networks, feedback has come to determine the behaviour of post-war ...

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Out of the Past: An Interview with Cinenova

By Mira Mattar 28 June 2011

The feminist film archive housed and animated by the collective Cinenova poses many perplexing questions about how the gender politics and aesthetics ...

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The ghosts of communism continue to haunt East Germany. Yet changes are afoot

By Dominic Simpson 28 June 2011

South-West of Berlin, an hour by train, reveals a small town called Beelitz, renown for its cultivation of white asparagus. In the middle of woods aro...

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Anti-Disciplinary Feedback and the Will to Effect

By Lars Bang Larsen 15 June 2011

The recursive forms of feedback made strange bedfellows out of cold war cybernetics and tripped-out psychedelia. In a reworking of a talk given at the...

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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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