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The Artist is Present

By Hari Kunzru 11 June 2010

A brave new world of affective transmission or a quasi-religious ascension ceremony? Hari Kunzru popped in to witness the marathon sitting of Marina A...

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Spam's Off Dear!

By Ben Pritchett 27 May 2010

Nothing like as bland or homogenised as its namesake, The Spam Book, with its forays into the anomalous 'dark side' of digital networks, provides some...

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Rumours of War

By Paul Helliwell 26 May 2010

    From dubstep to free improv to noise, people turn to music to express something about the world that words alone can't. How well, then...

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Artificial Scarcity in a World of Overproduction: An Escape that Isn't

By Sander 19 May 2010

The one strategy open to crisis-ridden capitalism that doesn't risk class antagonism is the creation of artificial scarcity through regimes of intelle...

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Reading the Imperceptible Tremors of an Unimaginable Future

By Mark Fisher 11 May 2010

Is dialectical thinking essential to anti-capitalism? Mark Fisher takes stock of Fredric Jameson's monumental effort to salvage 'the identity of ...

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An employee of the burnt bank speaks out on tonight’s tragic deaths in Athens

By An Employee 6 May 2010

An employee of the burnt bank speaks out on tonight’s tragic deaths in Athen – please spreadTonight’s tragic deaths in Athens leave ...

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‘Dignity at Work and Study’, or: Oxymoron 101

By Mute 4 May 2010

While cuts to academic staff, course closures and student occupations receive the lion's share of attention, the treatment a...

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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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