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Airing Dirty Laundry in Public Art

By Malcolm Miles 16 July 2009

On visiting ‘Art in Public Places: the Archive of the Public Art Development Trust', Malcolm Miles evaluates the role...

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Undoing the City, and Ourselves

By Anthony Iles 7 July 2009

A recent festival in Copenhagen dedicated to the cultural politics of the city escalated into a Dionysian street party-cum-riot. With the stakes raise...

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Be Realistic, Demand the Negative

By Marina Vishmidt 30 June 2009

  Challenging the idealism of autonomist Marxism, Negativity and Revolution is a recent anthology that uses Adorno's negative dialectics to re...

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State Capitalism in Britain

By James Heartfield 24 June 2009

Despite the State being the main investor in the UK's national economy, the official rhetoric of private sector productivity is alive and well. James ...

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The Omelette Maker

By Benedict Seymour 23 June 2009

  From a canal path confrontation comes bobo redemption in this docu-fiction by Benedict Seymour The hipster was riding home from work alon...

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Not Fast Food, Women!

By Agnese Trocchi 17 June 2009

    Alina Marazzi's film, We Want Roses Too, juxtaposes found footage with personal narratives in a hommage to the struggles of Italy's se...

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Solidarity Statement on the SOAS Cleaners

By SOAS Cleaners Solidarity CampaignWe are writing to express our solidarity with the SOAS cleaners who were forcibly detained by the Immigration and Border Police at the School on 12 June, and to denounce the School authorities for facilitating this outrageous assault on a vulnerable group of migrant workers who dared to fight back. 16 June 2009

Many of us are former and current PhD students and staff at SOAS or affiliated with SOAS, researching and teaching in the field of Development Studies...

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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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