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Staring into Black Water

By Sander 6 January 2009

How can the economy's need to wipe out a mountain of fictitious value be squared with its need to maintain social control? Sander considers the pr...

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Good Social/ Bad Social: the Films of Stephan Dillemuth

By Maija Timonen 16 December 2008

The films of Stephan Dillemuth trace the changing habitat of artists from modernist bohemia to the culture industry. Through role-play and refl...

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Wishful Thinkers of the Calamity Bazaar

By John Barker 16 December 2008

Capital needs to sustain the fantasy of its health, efficiency and inevitability at all costs. As the crisis broadsides this fantasy, the spin-doctors...

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Brutalist Soap

By Kate Rich 9 December 2008

What lies beyond the failed utopias of the modernist welfare state and the free market? Gail Pickering's recent film/performance, despite its stri...

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The Who and Whom of Liberty Taking

By Peter Linebaugh 3 December 2008

  The British Library's show Taking Liberties - on the struggle for freedom and rights throughout 900 years of British history - is a welcome ev...

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The Political Immunity of Discourse

By Erik Empson 28 November 2008

The English translation of Roberto Esposito’s Bios appears to be an important contribution to the critical analysis of a politics of life, but can t...

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Notes on the Last Few Months

By Hillel Ticktin 19 November 2008

Here is Hillel Ticktin's editorial for the forthcoming issue of Critique #46, due on December 1st, analysing the current crisis and its denouemen...

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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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