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Mute Vol 2, No. 3 − Naked Cities: Struggle in the Global Slums

By mute 1 October 2006

According to UN research data, by 2030 half of the world's population will be living in slums. Meanwhile, in Durban's Kennedy Road settlement resident...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 2 − Dis-Integrating Multiculturalism

By mute 1 June 2006

Since the advent of multiculturalism in the 1970s, the redefinition of race in cultural terms has gone hand in hand with an official discourse of resp...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 1 − Underneath The Knowledge Commons

By mute 1 December 2005

A struggle is ensuing to produce and protect what is being called the Knowledge Commons in defiance of the latter day regime of enclosures around know...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 0 − Precarious Reader

By mute 1 September 2005

This inaugural issue of Mute's Volume 2 series is a Reader that collects together texts on precariousness that first appeared in Mute Volume 1 issues ...

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Mute Vol 1, No. 29 – The Precarious Issue

By mute 1 February 2005

The conundrum of 'negotiating the other as other' recurs throughout this issue of Mute in various ways. The way out of this dilemma is seen not throug...

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Mute Vol 1, No. 28 (Summer/Autumn 2004)

By mute 1 June 2004

In this issue of Mute, the focus seems to lie less on cultural production than different cultures of resistance. A central focus of coverage is the un...

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

By mute 1 November 2003

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 Real...

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Mute Vol 1, No. 26 (Summer/Autumn 2003)

By mute 1 June 2003

The 'Iraq War' is turning from an expertly managed propaganda event into a polysemic cipher through which the capitalist underpinning of American and ...

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Mute Vol 1, No. 25 (Winter/Spring 2003)

By mute 1 November 2002

Includes John Latham and Babara Stevini of the Artist Placement Group in conversation with Pauline van Mourik Broekman & Josephine Berry Hea...

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Mute Vol 1, No. 24 – Beach or Border?

By mute 1 May 2002

Nearly a week after the murder of Rotterdam's political darling Pim Fortuyn, the reverberations of Europe's swing to the right are just starting to ga...

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Mute Vol 1, No. 23 – Info-War V.2.0

By mute 1 March 2002

"The UK Media are operating under the tacit assumption that the 'anti-globalisation' movement has been mired in a profound crisis of legitimacy ever s...

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Mute Vol 1, No. 22 – The Art Issue

By mute 1 December 2001

What does it mean to publish an art issue now? For Mute, it means revisiting a subject that, together with technology, was its raison d'etre when it f...

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Mute Vol 1, No. 21 – Total Paranoia - The Metamap

By mute 1 September 2001

In the digital arena, the fight for security is a pretty popular cause. Persistent cautionary tales of an assortment of Big Brothers have defined the ...

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Mute Vol 1, No. 20 – Digital Commons?

By mute 1 July 2001

This issue of Mute is dedicated to the theme of the digital or intellectual commons. The term enjoys a certain currency at the moment... It implies th...

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Mute Vol 1, No. 19 – Global Systems Meltdown

By mute 1 April 2001

The dot com and technology shares crash are giving way to monetary prudence and back-to-basics realism. In this issue we attempt to revisit the uneven...

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Mute Vol 1, No. 18 – I Am The Network

By mute 1 November 2000

In a networked environment the prevailing bloody-minded onus on knowledge makes all thought-work operationally functional. Rather than the brave new w...

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