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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 21 July, 2010 - 10:09
subject: Biopolitics | Cyborg | Economics | Social Movements | Technology
Is Black History in Hackney?
Submitted by Ben on Thursday, 7 October, 2010 - 15:55
The CLR James Library in Hackney is due to be replaced by a new £4.4 million facility in Dalston Square next spring. However, the council has decided the new building will be named Dalston Library and Archives. The library will return, but the credit to James will not. As Hackney Citizen explains, and as many Mute readers will know, subject: Financial Crisis | Gentrification | New Enclosures | Race | Regeneration | Urbanism
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Submitted by admin on Wednesday, 29 September, 2010 - 09:57
David Burrows Blurring the distinction between reality and fiction isn't just the preserve of the state in the age of the War on Terror; small fictional viruses may also be fatally infecting the global narrative, writes David Burrows
subject: Performance | Science Fiction | Viruses
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Submitted by admin on Tuesday, 21 September, 2010 - 16:52
Flint Michigan The only explicitly situationist band on the Factory label, The Royal Family & The Poor culled together conceptual art stratagems, unrehearsed punk and lacerating social critique into a devastating cocktail. Flint Michigan talks to ‘singer' Prince Brian aka Arthur McDonald and finds out why nothing this good ever lasts
Intrudiction
subject: AntiCapitalist | Post-Punk | Situationist
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 15 September, 2010 - 12:01
Mark Jackson Restlessly experimental, artist, writer and Burroughs collaborator Brion Gysin didn't stop to consolidate his oeuvre. But with a dedicated publication and New Museum show, his aesthetic nomadism is finally being brought in from the cold. Review by Mark Jackson
subject: Art | Literature
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Submitted by admin on Wednesday, 1 September, 2010 - 12:34
Ben Watson In the second installment of his music column, Ben Watson wages a war of social being against the hip priests of consensus reality
subject: Dada | Fluxus | Music theory | Poetry
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Submitted by admin on Tuesday, 24 August, 2010 - 11:31
Eugene Thacker Increasingly DIY and nihilistic, it's not surprising that contemporary philosophy is drawn to the untilled fields of undead subculture. Recent book, Hideous Gnosis, unleashes a bloodthirsty plague of para-academic commentary upon Black Metal, but, asks contributor Eugene Thacker, ‘how to talk about a music that refuses to be talked about?’
subject: Music | Music theory | Theory & Philosophy
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Submitted by mute on Monday, 16 August, 2010 - 07:54
Anthony Iles For one week the Psychogeophysical Summit merged renegade earth science, geekery and subjective mapping. Accompanied by Silje Hyenes Lysne, waving a magical video wand, remote reviewer Anthony Iles scried what he could
Video: The Psychogeophysical Summit London | 2-7 August 2010, a Mute and BLIP co-production. subject: Environment | Events | Hacking | Quantum Physics | Situationist | Workshops
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In this issue of Mute we look at the systemic requirement to appear, to have an identity, to become intelligible - as an individual, a face, a body, a set of affects, a data-set within biopolitical capitalism.
