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Humiliation and Hope: Alfredo Jaar and Simon Critchley in Conversation

By Convened by David Morris 30 March 2011

Amidst the last months' mediated stream of social and natural Events – from the revolts of the Arab world to the naturo-nuclear disaster in ...

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The Regeneration Railway Journey

By Neil Smith 23 March 2011

With New Labour's era of urban regeneration hitting the spongiform buffers of the Big Society, Owen Hatherley's Guide to the New Ruins of Grea...

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Universal Credit: Please Enter Your Password

By Gemma Cantlow 23 March 2011

The UK Government has, as is well known, announced its intention to introduce Universal Credit. While, in theory, streamlining benefits makes them eas...

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Save Philosophy at Keele

By Anonymous 22 March 2011

Keele University the Latest to Propose to Axe PhilosophyIn the latest disastrous development in British Higher Education, due no doubt to the Governme...

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WikiLeaks Has Radically Altered the Military-Diplomatic-Information Complex – 10 Reasons For and Against

By Florian Cramer & Ted Byfield 16 March 2011

With co-founder Julian Assange garnering everything from a messianic following to derision and calls to be ‘hunted down like a terrorist', F...

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The Art / Canape Nexus

By Esther Leslie 3 March 2011

When theorists subject art to matrices of value - economic or sociological - we don't necessarily arrive any closer to a 'law of art value', but what ...

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Plane Destructive: the Recent Films of Hito Steyerl

By Kerstin Stakemeier 23 February 2011

With her latest film, In Free Fall, Hito Steyerl shifts her focus from the production and circulation of images to the consumption of objects. What po...

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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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