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We Are Bad

By We Are Bad 18 March 2008

Over the past couple of months We Are Bad's invectives against sport as class-cleansing have been appearing on the notorious blue fence that runs ...

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Getting Closer to Bigger Screens

By Richard Wright 11 March 2008

The BBC's Live Sites 2012 program is set to roll out 60 big screens in urban centres around the UK by 2012. Considering the vague agenda currentl...

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When Travesty Becomes Form

By Alberto Duman 7 March 2008

The problem with critiques of curatorship is that they usually end up reinforcing the central importance of the curator. Alberto Duman contemplates a ...

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Plans for £100k Olympic sculpture out of drill bits

By Dan Stewart 3 March 2008

In an interesting intervention into the debate initiated by Claire Bishop [see http://www.metamute.org/en/exodus] on the social instrumentalisation of...

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Plague Politics

By C. L-Stavrides 29 February 2008

While bird flu panic made a return to the UK mainland last autumn, the promised pandemic failed to materialise. What does continue to evolve, however,...

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BASTA! A new special issue of the newspaper What Is To Be Done?

By Thomas Campbell 28 February 2008

We would like to announce the release of BASTA!, a special Russian-only issue of the art/theory/activism newspaper Chto Delat? (What Is to Be Done?), ...

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Pedagogy of Human Capital

By Stewart Martin 21 February 2008

Post-Fordism’s appetite for self-directed activity is bringing about a crisis in progressive education. No longer perceived as threatening, a work f...

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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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