Editorial

The Light Years: Contemporary Art in the Age of Weightless Capital

Featured in Mute Vol. 3, No. 1 - Double Negative Feedback

By Anna Dezeuze 9 June 2011

The art of our financialised times often resembles the weightless mobility of capital. But how does the unbearable lightness of certain art works diff...

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articles

From Coca to Capital: Free Trade Cocaine

By John Barker 9 June 2011

The War on Drugs, together with unequal free trade legislation, have provided first world junkie-capitalism with the liquidity and 'bio-tools'...

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Manifesto

By The Association of Musical Marxists 9 June 2011

The ASSOCIATION OF MUSICAL MARXISTS was founded by Andy Wilson and Ben Watson after being subjected to a thirty-minute eternity of Bourdieu-style &#...

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Missives from the Fortress of Uncertainty

By Diarmuid Hester 8 June 2011

Placing the cross-hair of analysis over the postmodern notion that everything is language, Speculative Realism is a philosophy that instead considers ...

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occultural studies column

Occultural Studies 3.0: Devil's Switchboard

By Eugene Thacker 26 May 2011

Demonology is not simply the study of demons, but of noise's assault on signal - a media theory avant la lettre, writes Eugene Thacker Accord...

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Exhausted States

By Convened by David Morris 24 May 2011

Concluding their three-part exchange for Mute, artist Alfredo Jaar and philosopher Simon Critchley contemplate how to keep on, artistically and politi...

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Nihilists! One Less Effort if You Would be Nihilists

By John Cunningham 17 May 2011

In the elegant and obscure Letters Journal, an anonymous collective traverses the black hole of nihilism to elude capitalism's all-encompassing ab...

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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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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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