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Mute Vol. 3, No. 3 - Becoming Impersonal

By Mute 15 August 2012

The ways in which the personal can be grasped as political is an exponentially productive legacy of second wave feminism. This idea connects the argum...

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Mute Vol. 3, No. 2 - Politics my arse

By mute 17 February 2012

'Well, the first thing I want to say is, politics my arse' Issue 2 includes: cover art by Johnny Spencer * Alberto Toscano on logistics and anarchi...

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

By mute 1 June 2011

'Double Negative Feedback' expresses the hope that the chaos unleashed by the cybernetic loops

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Mute Vol 2, No. 16 − Real Life Training

By mute 1 June 2010

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...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 15 − Grey Goo Grimoire

By mute 1 April 2010

'Grey Goo’ is a hypothetical end-of-the-world scenario involving molecular nano-technology in which out-of-control self-replicating robots consume a...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 14 − Disorder/Colony/Collapse

By mute 1 December 2009

Whether seen as the ultimate capitalists, Buddhists or communards, bees elicit fantasies and fears of social productivity and crisis by turns. This is...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 13 − Out of Time

By mute 1 September 2009

In this issue of Mute there is a generalised refusal to have our selves, in the widest sense of the word, put to work. As we start to see the real rep...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 12 − The Creative City in Ruins

By mute 1 June 2009

Post-Fordist State planners, developers, and their entrepreneurial service arm have debased the meaning of ‘creativity’ to a shallow pretext for t...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 11 − Exhuming The Human

By mute 1 March 2009

In this issue of Mute we revisit the question of ‘the human’ in the age of biopolitics. What do philosophers, activists and ‘pro-revolutionaries...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 10 − We Don't Need Another Hero

By mute 1 October 2008

The state is pouring billions into propping up the collapsing financial sector, but who is going to take care of the rest of us? Between Hollywood’s...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 9 − Your Five A Day

By mute 1 July 2008

The ubiquitous injunction to consume 'Your 5 a day' quota of fruit and vegetables seems to stand in for a whole governmental ideology of population ma...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 8 − Zero Critical Content/No Added Aesthetics

By mute 1 April 2008

With investment in stocks and property now inducing ambient neurasthenia, mainstream investors are allegedly turning to 'alternative investments' like...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 7 − Show Invisibles? Migration/Data/Work

By mute 1 December 2007

We are living through an intensification of citizens’, and non-citizens’, visibility to capital. Database convergence, states of emergency and poi...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 6 − Living In A Bubble: Credit, Debt & Crisis

By mute 1 September 2007

In this issue of Mute we look at the cultural, political and social costs of an era of debt-backed boom now showing signs of busting. Our contributors...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 5 − It's Not Easy being Green: The Climate Change Issue

By mute 1 April 2007

Rather than the ultimate causes of global warming, our focus in this issue is the way its spectre is put to work by the developed world. Climate chang...

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Mute Vol 2, No. 4 − Web 2.0 Man's Best Friendster

By mute 1 January 2007

Web 2.0’s democratisation of media produces a wealth of new perspectives. Those formerly excluded from the public sphere have the chance to make the...

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