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Editorial - Mute magazine, volume 3 #1

By Josephine Berry Slater 12 June 2011

‘Ever since man crawled out of the cave he's been making art!' Thus spake Colin Tweedy, director of Art and Business, at the ICA's e...

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The Light Years: Contemporary Art in the Age of Weightless Capital

By Anna Dezeuze 9 June 2011

The art of our financialised times often resembles the weightless mobility of capital. But how does the unbearable lightness of certain art works diff...

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From Coca to Capital: Free Trade Cocaine

By John Barker 9 June 2011

The War on Drugs, together with unequal free trade legislation, have provided first world junkie-capitalism with the liquidity and 'bio-tools'...

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Manifesto

By The Association of Musical Marxists 9 June 2011

The ASSOCIATION OF MUSICAL MARXISTS was founded by Andy Wilson and Ben Watson after being subjected to a thirty-minute eternity of Bourdieu-style &#...

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Missives from the Fortress of Uncertainty

By Diarmuid Hester 8 June 2011

Placing the cross-hair of analysis over the postmodern notion that everything is language, Speculative Realism is a philosophy that instead considers ...

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Exhausted States

By Convened by David Morris 24 May 2011

Concluding their three-part exchange for Mute, artist Alfredo Jaar and philosopher Simon Critchley contemplate how to keep on, artistically and politi...

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Nihilists! One Less Effort if You Would be Nihilists

By John Cunningham 17 May 2011

In the elegant and obscure Letters Journal, an anonymous collective traverses the black hole of nihilism to elude capitalism's all-encompassing ab...

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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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