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Regime-Busting Times? Notes on the Student Protests in Italy

By Andrea Tocchini 2 December 2010

With Berlusconi facing a vote of confidence on 14 December, the widespread student protests present a destabilising verdict on 16 years of misgovernme...

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They Sang, 'Knowledge is Free' to Honor the Students

By Peter Linebaugh 2 December 2010

News of the insurrection at Millbank Tower protesting the colossal fee increase of students reaches the Potawatomi and Ogibway peoples of the Great La...

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I Was an Art Spy for Mute Magazine

By Duncan Reekie 25 November 2010

The Tate's recent show Exposed constructed a history of photography and voyeurism but left its own role as broker of images and surveyor of audien...

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Fordism? Who's that For, Men Only?

By Noreen MacDowell 17 November 2010

Can popular cinema ever do justice to the complexity of social struggle? Noreen MacDowell gets under the bonnet of Made in Dagenham's portrayal of the...

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Solar and Anus: the Middlebrow Literature of Ian McEwan

By Peter Carty 17 November 2010

Does Ian McEwan's mass appeal rely upon his tacit celebration of middle class and anti-intellectual values? Peter Carty ponders the great British...

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An NUS Steward Tried to 'Clegg' Me

By Heidi Liane Hasbrouck 16 November 2010

'Clegging' - a masterful way of making repressive measures look fair and cuddly - is a tactic spreading to the NUS. Heidi Liane Hasbrouck isn&...

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Great Protest, Shame About the 'Despicable Minority' – NUS Leaders

By Sandra Morgan 13 November 2010

The student storming of the Tory headquarters in London was a spontaneous, mass action, proving the complete irrelevance of ‘student leaders'...

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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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