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Mute Vol 1, No. 27 (Winter/Spring 2004)

George Orwell's novel 1984 has had a good innings over the last few years: in addition to the runaway success of Endemol's Big Brother format and Reality TV in general, our current affairs are now dominated by a vocabulary that appears to come straight out of the more sinister pages of the book. As if in readiness for last year's centenary of the author's birth, evocatively named governmental agencies, catchy think tank and policy memes and global military campaigns have ensured that the fictional Ministry of Truth has been granted yet another lease of life in fact. The strategic mission of Orwell's Newspeak was the total colonisation of language and the imagination. But beyond the grandstanding of self-consciously political forms of language, unknown power lies in the cracks, whose furtive path betroths us to the dull yet brilliant magic of the everyday.

2003-11, ISSN 1356-7748-27

FURTHER DESCRIPTION

 

Includes:

 

Luciana Parisi on Abstract Sex

 

Simon Ford on the advent of computer art archiving projects

 

The University of Openness' Faculty of Cartography unravel the potentials of the Semantic Web

 

Hari Kunzru on Amy Balkin's guerilla conceptual art work

 

JJ King on Openness

 

Peter Drahos & John Braithwaite on America's strategic use of bilateralism

 

Harry Potter on the Wikipedia

 

Sebastian Olma on Peter Lynds' theory of time

 

Peter Suchin on Mark Aerial Waller

 

Goldie on Whitehouse

 

Ruth Maclennan on television and science

 

Betti Marenko & Miriam Swain on sci-art

 

Artists' projects by Eyal Weizman, Dani Bauer, Anselm Franke and Rafi Segal, Emma Hedditch, and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poet Ron Silliman

 

 

Lavish Full Colour Illustrated

Dimensions: 27.5 x 24 x 1 cm

144 pages

 

ISSN 1356-7748

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Abstract Sex

By Luciana Parisi

Abort, Retry, Fail

By Simon Ford

Freemasons Of The Future

By Saul Albert, Simon Worthington, and Fabian Thompsett, with help from Ben Russell, Jo Walsh and Asim

This is the Public Domain

By Hari Kunzru

The Packet Gang

By Jamie King

Securing the Knowledge Empire

By Peter Drahos and John Braithwaite

From Open Encyclopedia to Distributed Library Project

By Harry Potter

Physics Unbound

By Sebastian Olma

Alternative Globalisations

By Jon Beasley-Murray

Labouring Under the Lingo

By Mute Editor

Betting on Terror

By David Mandl

Home Front

By Ali Nobil Ahmad

Dollarise This!

By Natascha Sadr-Haghighian

Relational history

By Pauline van Mourik Broekman

Hektor

By Mute Editor

Spun Spooks

By Mark Fisher

The Opencontent.org Debacle

By Florian Cramer

Agribusiness Invades Poland

By Zoe Young

Internet Protocol Pirates

By Darius James

Telestreets

By Agnese Trocchi

Hot-Wire Jamaica

By Mute Editor

Art Basel 34

By Gwynneth Porter

Open Source Development

By Gilberto Câmara

Bombs and Bytes

By Anustup Basu

Museum Epidemiology

By Betti Marenko

Now that We are Persons

By Emma Hedditch

Hippoheimer the King

By Ron Silliman

The Politics of Verticality

By Eyal Weizman

The Hollow Land

By Daniel Bauer (photographer), Anselm Franke, Rafi Segal and Eyal Weizman

I Break Horses (I don't tend to them)

By Matthew Hyland

Domain Errors!

By Josephine Berry

Not The What But The Where

By Mike Sperlinger

Use Faults; Disturb Conventions; Exploit Indiosyncrasies

By Andrew Goffey

(Another) Story Of Art

By Vali Djordjevic and Diana McCarty

Artists in Non-Residence

By Peter Carty

Fashionable Noise

By John Cayley

The Attic Tapes 1974-1978

By Howard Slater

Infoanarchy vs. Discordia?

By Quim Gil

Radical Entertainment

By Ian White

New Media 1740-1915

By Charlie Gere

Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed

By Melanie Gilligan

re:Play

By Martin Conrads
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