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Good Old Avant-Garde

By Bill Roberts 7 May 2013

Does the institutional embrace of collaborative and interventionist art spell the end of the avant-gardist attack on art as a bourgeois individualist ...

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This Property is ConDemned

By Owen Hatherley 30 April 2013

What are the ConDems up to with their grim vision of class cleansed, jerrybuilt cities? Owen Hatherley pieces together recent urban austerity measures...

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50 Shades of Rape

By Hestia Peppe 23 April 2013

In his latest book, Stewart Home draws the comparison between the rape of unconscious victims and capitalism. But, asks Hestia Peppe, does this insigh...

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Keep Calm and Carrion: Two Funerals and a Reflection

By Benedict Seymour 18 April 2013

Some quick thoughts prompted by looking at images of St Paul's and Goldthorpe, the sites of two rather different funerals for Margaret Thatc...

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Memories of Origination

By Jacob Bard-Rosenberg 15 April 2013

Closing this short series of essays on the concept of Natural Beauty in Adorno’s work, originally presented in London at Historical Materialism 2012...

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Weaponise the corpse! Anti-Privatisation Struggle at Sussex University

By Various 5 April 2013

Four accounts written at different moments during the anti-privatisation struggle at Sussex University over the last two weeks   1. A First-han...

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Human Resolution

By Harry Sanderson 4 April 2013

Harry Sanderson reflects on the economy of networked image commodities and the chains of labour which underpin their appearance   There is a re...

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Mute Vol. 3, No. 4 - Slave to the Algorithm

By admin 13 April 2013

As the financial crisis fastens its grip ever tighter around the means of human and natural survival, the age of the algorithm has hit full stride. This phase-shift has been a long time coming of course, and was undoubtedly as much a cause of the crisis as its effect, with self-propelling algorithmic power replacing human labour and judgement and creating event fields far below the threshold of human perception and responsiveness.

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Money/Yenom

By Pöhl Monetary Research Group 2 May 2013

This short account by the Pöhl Monetary Research Group (P.M.R.G) of the sterling’s post-war history begins with three ideas concerni...

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Heresies - A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics, No 1-27 (1977-1993)

By anthony 28 April 2013

Classic feminist art magazine from the 1970s through the 1990. Collectively produced issues featured a wide variety of artists’ work, essays, prose ...

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Feminism is a dirty word. What would Marx and Engels think today?

By Camilla Power 26 April 2013

Feminism has long been a dirty word in the SWP. In his brave account, former Socialist Worker journalist Tom Walker describes how the male-dominated C...

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We need Zizek’s ‘Thatcher of the Left’ Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle

By Gabriel Levy 23 April 2013

The philosopher Slavoj Zizek hopes fervently for a “Thatcher of the left”, and pays homage to strong leaders, in the New Statesman this week. I th...

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