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In the Paradise of Too Many Books: An Interview with Sean Dockray

By Matthew Fuller 4 May 2011

If the appetite to read comes with reading, then open text archive Aaaaarg.org is a great place to stimulate and sate your hunger. Here, Matthew Fulle...

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No Angels

By Charlie Gere 3 May 2011

In two recent books - Web Aesthetics and Interface Criticism - new media critics rescue the sensuality of digital aesthetics from the gnostic grip of ...

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Between Baudrillard and the Cave: Alfredo Jaar and Simon Critchley in Conversation

By Convened by David Morris 27 April 2011

Developing their earlier discussion of news media's screening of global events, artist Alfredo Jaar and philosopher Simon Critchley consider how image...

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Steam Powered Census

By Graham Harwood 12 April 2011

The census stands at the very beginning of the biopolitical process of converting people into populations. In the wake of the 2011 Census, Graham Harw...

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Guardian and ACE Protest Letter Against Arts Cuts

By Mute 8 April 2011

Retort member and Mute contributor, Iain Boal, has sent this letter to The Guardian. The letter also went to ACE Chief Executive, Alan Davey, and Chai...

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Think Negative!

By Tom Eyers 7 April 2011

In his book, The Persistence of the Negative, Benjamin Noys tarries with the ‘affirmationism' of recent continental theory, in an attempt to prise t...

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Mute's 100% cut by ACE - a personal consideration of Mute's defunding, by co-founder Pauline van Mourik Broekman

By Pauline van Mourik Broekman 1 April 2011

Please send us your comments and feedback on Mute's 100% cut by ACE this week. We are hoping to set this in the context of the broader cuts across 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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