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Submitted by mute on Friday, 10 June, 2011 - 16:28
'Double Negative Feedback' expresses the hope that the chaos unleashed by the cybernetic loops of financialisation, post-Fordist production and networked life might not only be entropic and exploitative. The noise generated by 'positive feedback' also takes the form of the explosions we are seeing in the Arab world, the anti-disciplinary uses of cybernetic control systems, the 'shared precarity' of compositional improvising, and the ripples of a political organising that no longer assumes a common identity but instead acknowledges our common vulnerability.
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Submitted by admin on Thursday, 18 August, 2011 - 17:21
Mark Neocleous Anxious subjects are also docile and self-absorbed subjects. The neoliberal state's production of generalised anxiety through non-stop risk preemption and contingency planning produces subjects that fit perfectly with the needs of capital – writes Mark Neocleous. This is the concluding article to Mute's short series on surveillance, national security and logistics-driven production
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Submitted by admin on Wednesday, 17 August, 2011 - 15:00
Brian Ashton In the second contribution to a group of articles on logistics, workplace surveillance and national security, Brian Ashton zooms in on the microscopic technologies surveilling and shaping working lives
subject: Biopolitics | Computing | Hardware | Labour Struggles | Politics | Privacy | RFID | Wearable
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Submitted by admin on Tuesday, 9 August, 2011 - 15:10
Alberto Toscano 'Sabotage the social machine'. 'Incinerate the documents!'. In the first contribution to a group of articles on logistics, workplace surveillance and national security, Alberto Toscano examines the anti-urbanist presuppositions of insurrectionary anarchism, speculating on how the catastrophic destiny of certain technological innovations might instead be turned to different ends
subject: AntiCapitalist | Finance & Trade | Globalisation | Labour Struggles | Politics | Terrorism | Theory & Philosophy | Urbanism
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Submitted by admin on Sunday, 7 August, 2011 - 14:06
Evan Calder Williams and China Miéville Is salvagepunk sci-fi with left politics? Laptops with brass trimmings? Anything that looks kind of like Mad Max? At a recent event in London China Miéville and Evan Calder Williams discussed the term, its long pasts, its cursed present, and its uncertain future. Camera by Hamish Heartnell. Sound by Rachel Baker and video Hamish Hartnell.
subject: Books | Events | Politics | Science Fiction | Technology | Theory & Philosophy
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Submitted by admin on Wednesday, 27 July, 2011 - 11:32
James Heartfield The phone-hacking scandal hasn't only revealed the true sleaziness of Britain's establishment, but also the resounding hollowness of a post-ideological elite held together by little more than self-interest - writes James Heartfield
subject: Broadcast Media | Government | Media | Television
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Submitted by admin on Wednesday, 27 July, 2011 - 10:16
Sander All over the world, the capitalist states are taking austerity measures to slow the growth of their debts. It is obvious that this policy, since it slows consumption, can't in itself sustain the growth required for capital accumulation. Where, then, can the necessary economic stimulus come from? For lack of alternatives, eyes are turning eastward. It seems that history, the supreme ironist, has chosen ‘communist' China as global capitalism's saviour
What Crisis?
subject: Asia | Banking | Credit | Debt | Fictitious Capital | Finance & Trade | Financial Crisis
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Submitted by admin on Monday, 25 July, 2011 - 10:04
Christopher Collier Two recent books focusing on the Situationist International, Expect Anything Fear Nothing and The Beach Beneath the Street, salvage the plurality of the group's activities, laying an emphasis on art, friendship and life praxis, rather than the usual theory and splits. Review by Christopher Collier
subject: Activism | Art | Situationist
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