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Nice Monsters and Scary Sprites

By Mira Mattar 28 May 2013

Harmony Korine's recent film Spring Breakers doesn't exactly reward stringent sociological critique. His use of manipulative, ...;

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RIOTING WITH REASON: FROM ENGLAND TO SWEDEN AND BACK AGAIN

By Nina Power 27 May 2013

Why do English sociologists and politicians find riots so much more explicable when they happen overseas? Nina Power finds an international logic...

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2 Responses to the Riots in Sweden

By Megafonen and Pantrarna 25 May 2013

Pantrarna (The Panthers) and the sister organization Megafonen (The Megaphone) are two community activist groups based in Swedish suburbs. Pantrarna a...

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Weaponise Aunt Hester’s Scream

By Sacha Kahir 22 May 2013

In an expanded review of Arika 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle, part of an ongoing series of mini-festivals, Sacha Kahir listens to the anguished la...

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In the Junkyard of Wrecked Fictions

By Andrey Shental 14 May 2013

Artist and film-maker Hito Steyerl has been a key thinker of the relationship between the fragmentary landscape of global networked images and contemp...

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

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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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