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Living in a Bubble
In this issue, the cultural, political, and social costs of an era of debt-backed boom are explored by authors who link the global glut of financial liquidity with the capitalist self-cannibalization that sustains it.
Underneath the Knowledge Commons
The struggle to protect the so-called Knowledge Commons against the current regime of IP enclosures is gathering momentum. Referencing the shared popular ownership of common lands in the pre-capitalist era, today's knowledge commoners want to build a resource, a life source, of intellectual wealth to sustain people living under informatic capitalism.
Mute Magazine Graphic Design
Introduction by Adrian Shaughnessy. Text by Simon Worthington, Damian Jaques, Pauline van Mourik Broekman.
Mute Magazine - Vol 2 #5, It's Not Easy Being Green
This issue features articles by Anthony Davies, Paul Helliwell, Howard Slater, and Peter Suchin, and a special section on climate change and capital with texts by Will Barnes, James Woudhuysen, Tim Forsyth and Zoe Young, Kate Rich, George Caffentzis, Anthony Iles, Chris Wright, and Samantha Alvarez.
Precarious Reader
Contains texts on the politics of precarious labour. Concerning labour history, part-time freelance, unpaid employment and house work. The erosion of the welfare state, globalisation social precariousness and protest against this condition.
Dis-integrating Multiculturalism
Since the advent of multiculturalism in the 1970s, the redefinition of race in cultural terms has gone hand in hand with an official discourse of respect for cultural difference and diversity. Today, in the wake of 9/11, the rhetoric of tolerance is visibly breaking down. As state policy shifts from the celebration of difference to an anxious call for assimilation, the racial other (whether citizen or immigrant) is under renewed pressure to integrate herself into society. In this issue of Mute, contributors read the crisis of multiculturalism - political, scientific and social - as both a neoliberal offensive and a challenge to rethink the relationship between particular identities and universal rights, evolutionary science and biopower. Texts by: George Caffentzis, Matthew Hyland, Daniel Jewesbury, Marek Kohn, Eric Krebbers, Hari Kunzru, Melancholic Troglodytes, Angela Mitropoulos, Luciana Parisi, Benedict Seymour
Naked Cities - Struggle in the Global Slums
According to UN research data, by 2030 half of the world's population will be living in slums. Meanwhile, in Durban, residents of Forman and Kennedy Road settlements risk arrest and police violence to protest forced eviction and demand clean drinking water and sanitation. The statistics are not supposed to talk back. This issue of Mute, largely sparked by Mike Davis' claim that in the megaslums Muhammad and the Holy Ghost have superceded Marx, considers another view of the world's burgeoning 'naked cities'. Where the populace are refugees without rights or basic amenities, are new forms of political action emerging? Texts by: Amita Baviskar, Iain Boal, Anna Dezeuze, Michael Edwards, Melanie Gilligan, Anthony Iles, Demetra Kotouza, Penny Koutrolikou, Josaphat Robert Large, Félix Morisseau-Leroy, Kevin Pina, Richard Pithouse, Benedict Seymour and Rachel Weber
Mute Magazine - Vol 2 #10
As capitalism yawns towards apocalypse "Mute Magazine" matches it issue by issue with a sustained critique of everything existing.
Wirelessness
For Mackenzie, entanglements with things, gadgets, infrastructures, and services---tendencies, fleeting nuances, and peripheral shades of often barely registered feeling that cannot be easily codified, symbolized, or quantified---mark the experience of wirelessness, and this links directly to James's expanded conception of experience. "Wirelessness" designates a tendency to make network connections in different times and places using these devices and services. Equally, it embodies a sensibility attuned to the proliferation of devices and services that carry information through radio signals. Above all, it means heightened awareness of ongoing change and movement associated with networks, infrastructures, location, and information. --
Mute Vol II #4 - Web 2.0
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 their voices heard. But this wave of participation is as important for busines as it is for the newly included. Mute's Web 2.0 special uncovers the work in social networking and the centralisation of the means of sharing. Features texts by Giorgio Agostoni, Olga Goriunova, Dmytri Kleiner & Brian Wyrick and Angela Mitropoulos. With additional articles by Brian Ashton, John Barker, Paul Helliwell and Merijn Oudenampsen.
