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A Lesson in Media
A report from the demonstration(s) in Hackney last night in response to the police murder of Rashan Charles A lesson in media: last night was sad and extraordinary. For the last days the videos of the...
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Spectres Of Modernism: Artists Against Overdevelopment
Spectres of Modernism is an installation of protest art banners emblazoned with slogans dreamt up by leading artists and writers including Turner Prize winners Jeremy Deller and Elizabeth Price and...
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Chump Change: Decrypting Bitcoin & Blockchain
Artists and academics are jumping on the blockchain bandwagon and talking up the potential for cryptocurrency and distributed ledgers to mitigate austerity capitalism. Attractive as techno-monetary...
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Revolutionary Leaflets and Comrade Things
In his recent Anti-Book, Nicholas Thoburn finds the communist escape hatch leading out of the fortified gulag of commodity-book production. Review by Anthony Iles Revolutionary leaflets and kindred...
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The Biennial of Very Fine People, On Both Sides
Further Thoughts on the Athens Biennalehttps://shutdownld50.tumblr.com/post/178020810821/further-thoughts-on-the-athens-biennaleThe Fash and the Spurious: Rightward Drift...
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Extracts From The Counsel of Spent
Drawing upon the divagating adventures of the fondly missed Inventory journal (1995-2005), Inventory have authored a new book in a series commissioned by Nina Power for Book Works. We have taken the...
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MEMES WITH FORCE – LESSONS FROM THE YELLOW VESTS
People have theorised recent social movements as memes before. However, they tend to make the phrase eclipse the content, placing the (representational) meme over the (real) movement. In the following...
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Antimatter
1 When you were scratching your name into the mirror another few hundred people died. I guess they exist outside the borderline of what you call ‘kindness’. Kindness which in your mouth has the...
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Breakthroughs & Bait: on Xenofeminism & Alienation
Responding to Annie Goh’s critique of the Xenofeminist Manifesto ‘Appropriating the Alien: A Critique of Xenofeminism’ and Sophie Lewis' recent assessment in Red Pepper, Jules Joanne Gleeson takes...
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‘History Is No Longer On Our Side’: An Interview with Jérôme Baschet
Interview conducted on September 12, 2019 by ACTA, on the occasion of the publication of Baschet’s new book on the Gilets Jaunes uprising, Une Juste colère. Interrompre la destruction du monde1. I...
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Resisting Coronavirus
On the politics of the pandemic and organising to protect those most vulnerable I know my left wing friends don't want to talk about coronavirus, but to me what is happening right now is terrifying and...
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STR!KE
In unprecedented numbers, UK universities are on strike. The UCU-led action broaches the full spectrum of neoliberal misery to which the marketised university subjects both workers and students, via...
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This isn't a Virus, it's a Time Machine
In a 2015 London Review of Books essay Fredric Jameson briefly imagines the Bolshevik Party as a kind of time machine. The party is a device by means of which Leninist revolutionaries effect a...
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Class Power on Zero-Hours (excerpt)
To coincide with Danny Hayward's review of Class Power on Zero-Hours we asked the AngryWorkers for permission to publish two excerpts from their recent book Greenford tube station. People wearing...
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Three Class Struggles and a Funeral
In his review of the recent book Class Power on Zero-Hours (PM Press, 2020), Danny Hayward reflects with enthusiasm on AngryWorkers' attempt to pop the left's cosmopolitan bubble, following their...
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Eulogy for David Graeber
David Graeber, academic, anthropologist and revolutionary died on 4 September, 2020 in hospital in Venice. To mark his passing and celebrate his life and work, including his contribution to Mute, we...
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Cars, Riots & Black Liberation
The US saw some of the largest riots and protests in its history this year in response to the continuing police murder of black people – most recently the Walter Wallace Rebellion in Philadelphia. Yet...
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Violence and Other Non-Political Actions in the New Cycle of Revolt
Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen contrasts Judith Butler's democratic analysis of Occupy in Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly with the concept of permanent destitution as developed by Marcello Tarì...
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25 Artists and Cultural Workers Divest from Zabludowicz
BDZ Press Release On 26th July, twenty-five cultural workers announced their divestment and disaffiliation from Zabludowicz Art Projects, the Zabludowicz Art Trust and its affiliated platforms...
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The Conditions of Possibility: Tributes to Marina Vishmidt 1976-2024 (I)
Marina Vishmidt, a much loved and deeply formative contributor for our magazine from its early years, tragically passed away at the end of April. The scale, originality and influence of Marina’s...
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