Editorial

The Critique of Pure Theory: Postone's Dialectic of the Abstract and the Abstract

By Loren Goldner 23 October 2006

After reading the interesting articles in the latest issue of Principia Dialectica – one by Moishe Postone, the other by an exponent of his critique...

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Globalisation depresses western wages

By Samuel Brittan 22 October 2006

Although he doesn't say so, Financial TImes columnist Samuel Brittan is effectively reclaiming the case for a 'basic income' from self-...

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Credit business more perilous than ever

By Mute 19 October 2006

If neoliberal economists used to love going on about the 'tragedy of the commons' (ie no point sharing collectively enjoyed resources cos no...

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New Media, Rewired

By Jussi Parikka 18 October 2006

Forming part of a recent media studies tendency to analyse the impact media have in representing, and therefore also producing, the same histories the...

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WOS-4 Commons-Based Peer Production and Basic Income

By Dmytri Kleiner 17 October 2006

Dmytri Kleiner strikes again! This time responding to comments by Michel Bauwens regarding this previous post, Kleiner spells out in more detail his v...

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First Cut is the Deepest

Featured in Mute Vol 2, No. 4 − Web 2.0 Man's Best Friendster

By Paul Helliwell 12 October 2006

Free improvisation guitarist and theorist Derek Bailey could be described as the Samuel Beckett of post-war music. Bailey moved nohow-onward by means ...

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Academic Freedom Under Attack in South Africa

By Freedom of Expression InstituteMedia Release: FXI Concerned about growing `climate of fear´ at the University of KwaZulu-Natal9 October 2006 The Freedom of Expression Institute last week wrote to theVice-Chancellor of the University of KwaZulu Natal, ProfessorMalegapuru Makgoba, expressing its concern regarding thestate of freedom of expression and academic freedom at thatuniversity. The FXI told Makgoba it believed `free expressionand academic freedom are in severe decline at your universityand urge you to act expeditiously to stem this trend which isalready derailing your vision of being "the premier university ofAfrican scholarship"´. 11 October 2006

The latest incident causing concern for the FXI is the matter ofFazel Khan, who is being hauled before a disciplinarycommittee. Khan, a sociology lect...

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books

Look at Hazards, Look at Losses

By mute 28 March 2017

Authors: Group for Conceptual Politics (GCP), Danny Hayward, Anthony Iles, Lisa Jeschke, Benjamin Noys, Eirik Steinhoff and Marina Vishmidt Paperba...

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PML Books

By Mute 18 December 2013

The PML Book series is a collaboration between Mute magazine and Post-Media Lab. The Lab was set up in September 2011 and explores how post-broadcast ...

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Mute Magazine Print Archive

By mute 13 September 2016

The Mute magazine print archive has its first release for sale as an original, limited edition set of all fifty-one issues of the print versions of the magazine, covering twenty years of publishing from 1994 to 2014.

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Connecting People Apart

By mute 3 February 2012

A free eBook reader compiled from the Mute magazine article archive for the Post-Media Lab, a new collaboration Mute is embarking on that will explore the following themes as part of the overall framework of the lab.

Digital Networks: Connecting People Apart, The Subsumption of Sociality, The Question of Organisation, Acting within Non-Human Ontologies

Download as ePub and Kindle, or HTML5 for the other types screen readers (text only) .

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