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The Royal Family & The Poor: An Interview with Arthur McDonald

By Flint MichiganThe only explicitly situationist band on the Factory label, The Royal Family & The Poor culled together conceptual art stratagems, unrehearsed punk and lacerating social critique into a devastating cocktail. Flint Michigan talks to ‘singer' Prince Brian aka Arthur McDonald and finds out why nothing this good ever lasts 21 September 2010

Intrudiction It's pretty much accepted that Factory records was one of the foremost popularisers of the Situationist International. From naming t...

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Multi-Dimensional Man

By Mark Jackson 15 September 2010

Restlessly experimental, artist, writer and Burroughs collaborator Brion Gysin didn't stop to consolidate his oeuvre. But with a dedicated publica...

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Coma: The Art of Unconsciousness

By Stephen Barber 3 August 2010

Pierre Guyotat's books break down language, bodies and the self to stage an estranged eternal present. Stephen Barber sifts through Guyotat's ...

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Creation Myth

By Marina Vishmidt 28 July 2010

This March at Central Saint Martins, teachers and students from a seminal '60s/'70s experiment in art education gathered to reconsider the past in the...

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Eliminating Labour: Aesthetic Economy in Harun Farocki

By Benedict Seymour 21 July 2010

Reading across the expanse of Harun Farocki's oeuvre at his recent Raven Row retrospective, Benedict Seymour discovers a profound engagement with ...

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On Edge

By Stefan Szczelkun 21 July 2010

  The production of a normative human body is a vital means of social control. In an interview with Stefan Szczelkun, artist Alexa Wright explai...

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Editorial

By Josephine Berry Slater 21 July 2010

In retrospect, I-D and The Face magazines' titles and cover strategies brought together, with somnambulant precision, more biopolitical tropes th...

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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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