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What links Lord Mandelson, Damien Hirst and the music industry?

By Charlie Brooker 16 September 2009

This article did wonders for my anger management problems. If sticking the knife into Hirst and his pitiful imitation of art and/or adulthood feels de...

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Unstable Equilibrium

By Howard Slater 9 September 2009

  With the publication of the first English language monograph on Dušan Makavejev, the work of a great, yet underrated Yugoslav film-maker is f...

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Slack, Taut and Snap: A Report on the Radical Incursions Symposium

By Peter Conlin 27 August 2009

Where the recession opens up ‘slack spaces’ in the city, squatters and artists are sure to follow. Nowadays the apparatchiks of culture-le...

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The Big Lizard Without Qualities?

By Reactor / Ben 26 August 2009

I am hoping this is some kind of parody of the nigh universal tendency for (relational/new media/ all?) art to resemble the collateral campaign in The...

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Upstairs Downstairs: From Intensity to Entitlement

By Keston Sutherland 26 August 2009

    Separating out the wrist-strain of typewriter-hewn typographic constructions from more recent wheel-mouse conceptualism, Keston Suther...

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Editorial

By Josephine Berry Slater 25 August 2009

In this issue of Mute there is a generalised refusal to have our selves, in the widest sense of the word, put to work. As we start to see the real rep...

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Union fury as civil service outsources jobs to India / British Council redefines Cultural Relations

By Belle Le Triste-Tropiques /Jill Sherman, The Times 24 August 2009

This public sector organisation committed to the production of 'cultural relations' (eg cultural relations such as voluntary redundancy, ear...

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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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