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A Weak Power Thinking Bringing to a Halt

By John Wollaston 28 May 2008

The recent London performance of Luigi Nono's composition for orchestra and live-processing, Prometeo, was presented as an apotheosis of the Itali...

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Editorial

By Josephine Berry Slater 28 May 2008

With investment in stocks and property now inducing ambient neurasthenia, mainstream investors are allegedly turning to ‘alternative investments...

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Innovate, Innovate: the Mantra of the Uncreative Class

By James Heartfield 27 May 2008

As the UK creative economy flags, the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA)'s corrective is 'innovation'. But without investm...

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All Problems of Notation Will Be Solved By the Masses

By Simon Yuill 23 May 2008

In the 1960s and '70s musicians devised innovative forms of notation and protocol to liberate themselves from aesthetic and social conventions. Today'...

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Securing the Social

By Matthew Fuller 23 May 2008

This year’s Futuresonic festival in Manchester attempted to spark an alternative vision of social networking software. Matthew Fuller, software ...

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The Battle of all* Mothers (or: No Unauthorised Reproduction)

By Madame Tlank 14 May 2008

The UK’s health and social services have become tools of surveillance and control, with working class women the most vulnerable to state interventio...

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Private fascist initiative

By Private Eye 13 May 2008

Private Eye looks back at the birth of PFI and makes a not-so-surprising discovery.A reader alerts the Eye to a 1940s history of Benito Mussolini, unc...

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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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