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Dissident Island Discs

By Anthony Iles 4 March 2009

Stefan Szczelkun's online project, 'Agit Disco', invites guest ‘DJs' to extract the politics from their music collections into m...

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Hungry Ghost

By Paul Helliwell 26 February 2009

Steve McQueen's controversial film about Irish republican hunger striker, Bobby Sands, eschews an articulation of politics, dramatising, instead, the ...

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Protest Against the UK's New Workfare Regime - London February 26th

By Mute 25 February 2009

There will be a protest against the UK government's new workfare scheme on Thursday 26th February. An event called 'Bidding Opportunities: DW...

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Turning Software Inside Out

By Tony D. Sampson 17 February 2009

As our familiarity with software deepens, the question of its cultural understanding looms. Here Tony Sampson reviews FLOSS+Art and Software Studies: ...

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Debt: The First Five Thousand Years

By David Graeber 10 February 2009

Anthropologist David Graeber argues that it is only with a general historical understanding of debt and its relationship to violence that we can begin...

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Concerning Art and Social Change

By Marco Deseriis and Brian Holmes 4 February 2009

  The 2007 reader Art and Social Change offers a genealogy of today's radical cultures. Here, Brian Holmes and Marco Deseriis glean insights fro...

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All Mouth, No History

By William Dixon 3 February 2009

A purely linguistic analysis of financialisation and contemporary production fails to account for the current crisis, argues William Dixon in his revi...

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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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