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Objective Phantoms

By Kenneth Cox 27 January 2009

The Passive Vampire, Romanian surrealist poet Ghérasim Luca's recently translated book, brings objects and desires into intimate contact, with unexpe...

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Code Dreams are Made of This

By M. Beatrice Fazi 27 January 2009

This year’s Piksel festival celebrating ‘Code Dreams’ saw the boundaries between artists, audience, hardware and software blu...

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We Won't Pay for Your Crisis: Italian Struggles Against Education Reform

By Paolo Do and Gigi Roggero 22 January 2009

Berlusconi's stinging cuts to state education have encountered strong opposition across Italy. With the credit crunch upending the wider neoliberal pr...

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Will the last person out turn off the tap?

By UK underwriter / Iain Martin 21 January 2009

Death by (il)liquidity, final chapter. It's nauseating to read it in The Telegraph given that their idea of a 'sensible' policy would p...

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How do we move beyond ‘I’m being watched’?

By Olga P Massanet 17 January 2009

Surveying Surveillance, part of the This is Not a Gateway Festival 2008 (TINAG), invited artists, academics and directors of security companies to dis...

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A Climatic Disorder? Class, Coal and Climate Change

By John Cunningham 14 January 2009

At last November's NUM convened conference, trade unionists and Climate Campers were invited to debate the explosive cocktail of (clean) coal, class a...

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(Not Quite) In the Zone

By Ben Watson 8 January 2009

With Mastaneh Shah-Shuja's recent book Zones of Proletarian Development, the anti-capitalist movement has finally found its political theorist. Bu...

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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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