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Descrambling the 'Food Crisis'

By George Caffentzis 26 August 2008

When the world's hedge funds turned from real estate to grain speculation the poor picked up the tab. But the food bubble was no accident, argues Geor...

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Flipping the Script

By Imogen O’Rorke 15 August 2008

As western audiences increasingly switch off from generic reporting of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Imogen O'Rorke finds the news-unworthy te...

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Borders 2.0: Future, Tense

By Angela Mitropoulos and Bryan Finoki 12 August 2008

Angela Mitropoulos and Bryan Finoki present an incursion, in text and image, into the contemporary borderlands Arrayed beyond and around the obvious w...

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Editorial: Your Five a Day

By Josephine Berry Slater 12 August 2008

The ubiquitous injunction to consume ‘Your 5 a Day’ quota of fruit and vegetables seems to stand in for a whol...

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Mr Smith Goes to Beijing

By Daniel Berchenko 7 August 2008

Sociologist Giovanni Arrighi invokes the political economy of Adam Smith to claim that China's 'labour intensive' mode of production is the future of ...

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Orientalism Inverted: The Rise of 'Hindu Nation'

By Neil Gray 30 July 2008

Is Indianness just a German ideology? In the first of a two-part analysis of neoliberalism in the subcontinent, Neil Gray traces the history of Hindu ...

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THE ASSAULT ON CULTURE: A Mute Magazine talk on privatisation and critical artistic practice

By Mute 30 July 2008

3-5pm, Sunday 3 August 2008. Upstairs at Publish And Be Damned self-publishing fair, Rochelle School, Arnold Circus, London E2. Free, no booking requi...

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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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