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Dear Living Person

By John Russell 16 February 2011

Art's chasing after its own limits is like our dreams of transcendence which must fail and, in so doing, justify our despair. Here, John Russell gives...

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Clio Barnard's Talking Heads

By Omar El-Khairy 10 February 2011

Caught in a web of anxious artistic and governmental agendas, the uncompromising figure of working class playwright Andrea Dunbar barely survives Clio...

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Government Grime and the EMA Kids

By Dan Hancox 3 February 2011

Following the lazy misrecognition of the 'bunking' EMA protesters from various quarters of media and government, Dan Hancox sets out to explore the co...

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Hostile Object Theory

By Evan Calder Williams 1 February 2011

What is this disconcerting antipathy glimpsed when everyday objects malfunction or break-down and seem, darkly, to want to hurt us? Evan Calder Willia...

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Copyright and the Declining Authority of Private Property

By James Heartfield 27 January 2011

What sort of a threat does illegal downloading pose to the system of private property in general? - asks James HeartfieldAs of June 2006 the Recording...

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In the War on Drugs There's Not Much Metaphysics Behind the Ideology

By Max Jorge Hinderer 19 January 2011

Interview with Jorge Hurtado Gumucio, psychiatrist and founder of the La Paz Coca Museum. Mallasa, La Paz, Bolivia, 17/1/2010. By Max Jorge Hinderer...

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Temporary Hegemonic Zones*

By Stevphen Shukaitis 18 January 2011

Attending a sprawling congress for Neue Slowenische Kunst's imaginary state proved to be a worthwhile exercise in traumatic participation – writes S...

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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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