occultural studies column

The Period of the Sleeping Fits

By Eugene Thacker 16 October 2013

In his final Occultural Studies column, Eugene Thacker surveys the ‘unspeakable life’, work and dreams of surrealist poet, Robert Desnos  ...

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Speculative Architectures

By Jeremy Lecomte 2 October 2013

Do algorithms think? Do buildings speculate? In his review of Luciana Parisi’s recent book, Contagious Architecture, Jeremy Lecomte considers her cl...

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Populous Front

By Howard Slater 25 September 2013

Howard Slater explores the vicissitudes of popular unity, from the history of compromises by variously aligned popular fronts to recent struggles in w...

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After Participation

By Marina Gerber 19 September 2013

A new book on Russian conceptualists, Collective Actions Group, finally translates audience responses into English, pushing them to the fore. In her r...

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The Shadow of Ikea-ification Falls On Us All

By Hannah Black 10 September 2013

A recent exhibition, The Whole Earth: California and the Disappearance of the Outside, interrogated what pale blue fragments lie in the wake of the wh...

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Object Oriented Marxism?

By Simon Mussell 28 August 2013

Reconceiving man's relations to matter and the world of objects was not always the politically insipid theoretical pastime it has become. Here, S...

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The Anti-Political Aesthetics of Objects and Worlds Beyond

By Svenja Bromberg 25 July 2013

Now that immaterial and affective labour seem to be waning as subjects for art, a fascination with the radical contingency of the material world has g...

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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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