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The Return Of The Poor Law Mentality

By Alastair Kemp 20 August 2009

Surveying Channel 4's recent troika of poor-bashing TV series, Alastair Kemp asks if this is the revenge of the disciplinari...

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Notes on The Last Days of Jack Sheppard: Capital Crimes and Paper Claims

By Benedict Seymour 12 August 2009

  Extrapolating from his talk on Anja Kirschner and David Panos’ recent film about 18th century folk legend Jack Sheppard, Benedict Seymour tr...

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S. Korea workers’ 77-day factory occupation broken by violent police assault

By Loren Goldner / Ansel at Mediahacker 12 August 2009

Podcast: S. Korea workers’ 77-day factory occupation broken by violent police assault: http://www.mediahacker.org/2009/08/podcast-ssangyong-work...

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The Buck Stops Here?

By Daniel Berchenko 5 August 2009

  Amidst late-noughties currency fluctuation, Daniel Berchenko considers the history of the dollar's haphazard rise to global currency standard,...

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It's Become Our Crisis

By Kirsten Forkert 30 July 2009

Already faced with cuts before the crisis, education now looks to be one of the sectors hardest hit, and not merely financially. Kirsten Forkert looks...

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Privatising the Post: Too Much, Too Late

By Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt 23 July 2009

  While the government may have shelved plans to privatise the Royal Mail, the self-affirming logic of neoliberalism that informed the plans per...

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Arts Centre 2.0 or Social Factory?

By Simon Ford 22 July 2009

Torturing their metaphors and confusing art and business, New Labour's favourite creative consultants revealed their vision for the future of arts ins...

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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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