occultural studies column

Black on Black

By Eugene Thacker 17 July 2013

Is black a colour, the absence of colour or a suspension of vision produced by a deprivation of light? Do we actually see black, and if so what do we ...

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lab

From a Free Software Movement to a Free Safety Movement

By Micha Cárdenas 10 July 2013

This is a call to all feminist hackers, anti-racist coders, gender hackers, genderchangers, queer and trans hackers, political hackers, dancers, movement makers, poets, performers, anti-violence activists and networked activists to come together to help stop violence against queer and trans* people, people of color, disabled people and women

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articles

A Stitch in Time: The ‘Orchestrated Networks’ of Bloody Taylorism

By John Barker 3 July 2013

From its beginnings, the sewing machine’s role in shaping global capitalism has been crucial. In today’s high-tech and globalised production lands...

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Performative Equations and Neoliberal Commodification: The Case of Climate

By Larry Lohmann 25 June 2013

In Vol 3 #4, Mute attempted to wrap its collective brain around the steep abstractions of one of capitalism’s strangest products: HFT algorithm...

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articles

Almagestum Contemporarium

By Tzuchien Tho 19 June 2013

In his dense bomb of a book, Fernando Zalamea updates the relationship between contemporary mathematics and philosophy. What is proposed is a syntheti...

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articles

I've Seen Gardens, Compared with Which this Would be a Wilderness

By Martin Howse 11 June 2013

Stanislaw Lem’s 1964 opus, Summa Technolgiae, has only just been translated into English. Over half a century later, Lem’s work stands as an aston...

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articles

Wanderings of the Slave: Black life and Social Death

By R.L. 5 June 2013

For the theorists of Afro-pessimism, black non-existence forms a negativity against which white liveliness and freedom defines itself positively. Surv...

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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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books

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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books

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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books

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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