articlesBy MuteUniversity of Westminster management have just offered academic staff a settlement on their framework agreement without the agreement of the UCU union. This means that academic staff are being offered quite large amounts to sign agreements by 26th June that will, in effect, undermine the role of the union. To quote from a union memo the agreement will: 16 June 2009 allow management to sideline the unions - union recognition must mean that any changes to pay or conditions are agreed. If they do it her...
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articlesBy Sam Williams 3 June 2009A recently published volume of Guy Debord's early letters provides insights into a singular personality, and the fractious relationships that spaw...
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articlesBy Josephine Berry Slater 3 June 2009‘The world', writes Deleuze, ‘does not exist outside its expressions'. This pivotal quote in M. Beatrice Fazi's piece, ‘...
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articlesBy Mute 28 May 2009 Melinda Cooper is a theorist who lives in Sydney. She is the author of Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era. She is cu...
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articlesBy Melinda Cooper and Angela Mitropoulos 27 May 2009In the subprime crisis, which followed a mass desire to live above one's means, the usury that allowed it demonstrates the connected notions of produc...
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articlesBy Mute 26 May 2009Soenke Zehle teaches transcultural literary and media studies at Saarland University and the Saar Academy of Fine Arts [tmsp.org]. ...
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articlesBy Mute 26 May 2009Brian Wyrick (brian@pseudoscope.com) is an artist and web developer. He makes films with the artists' collective, Group 312 Films, in Chicago....
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