Salvagepunk in the Birthgrave - Video documentation
By Evan Calder Williams and China MiévilleIs salvagepunk sci-fi with left politics? Laptops with brass trimmings? Anything that looks kind of like Mad Max? At a recent event in London China Miéville...
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Logistics and Opposition
By Alberto Toscano'Sabotage the social machine'. 'Incinerate the documents!'. In the first contribution to a group of articles on logistics, workplace surveillance and national security, Alberto...
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What the RFID is That?
By Brian AshtonIn the second contribution to a group of articles on logistics, workplace surveillance and national security, Brian Ashton zooms in on the microscopic technologies surveilling and...
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Anxious Resilience
By Mark NeocleousAnxious subjects are also docile and self-absorbed subjects. The neoliberal state's production of generalised anxiety through non-stop risk preemption and contingency planning produces...
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Spaghetti Communism?
By Benjamin NoysIf Westerns allegorise a mythical space of gradual resolution and order, the western all'italiana explodes the American dream of stabilising prosperity with excessive violence and...
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Dear Living Person II: Story of the Eyes
By John RussellAs the image of Margaret Thatcher circulates through the media ecology, John Russell's public art work in Southend-on-Sea works to redirect its affective charge. The Iron Lady, stable...
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Squatting and the Tories
By Andrea TocchiniIn the slipstream of a media campaign Tories are quickly gaining momentum for a new initiative to criminalise squatting in England and Wales. Andrea Tocchini sizes up the homelessness...
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Reflections on the Arab Spring
By Anustup BasuTwittering teens or absolutist ayatollahs, men we can do business with or loony autocrats? The media's proliferation of polarities is a strategy to fragment the connectedness of events...
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Insect Oriented Media Theory
By Jennifer GabrysJussi Parikka's recent book Insect Media simultaneously expands the field of media theory and the purview of biopolitics by thinking about the more-than-human development of...
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Rewire Yourself
By Lorena Rivero de Beer p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }a:link { }em.ctl { font-style: normal; Liverpool's recent Rewire conference looked to advance new and progressive readings of media art and theory....
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What Next For Education Struggles
By Sarah TaylorAfter August’s riots and with a student demonstration on 9 November and a national strike on 30 November planned Sarah Taylor asks, will the contradictions of last year’s student...
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Book Launch, 8th December 2011
Book Launch, 8th December 2011, 6.30pm – 9.00pm The Showroom,63 Penfold Street, London, NW8 8PQ RSVP via Facebook Mute invites you to come and celebrate the launch of two new titles released...
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FTH: The Savage and Beyond
By Howard SlaterHoward Slater grasps the August riots as the appearance of an ‘unrecognisable demos' which challenges the very ability of capitalist democracy to include or contain the language and...
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Style Without Subversion
By Gail Dayp { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } The V&A’s Postmodernism exhibition acted like an industrial trawler, disembedding three decades of cultural artefacts from their diverse ecologies. The...
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HMKV
Dates: Thursday, 1 December, 2011 to Wednesday, 1 February, 2012External Link: http://www.hmkv.de/_en/index.phpAdvert Image: HMKV web banner.jpg
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Afterall
Dates: Thursday, 1 December, 2011 to Wednesday, 1 February, 2012External Link: http://www.afterall.org/Advert Image: Afterall_MuteBanner.jpg
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Showroom
Dates: Thursday, 1 December, 2011 to Sunday, 22 January, 2012External Link: http://www.theshowroom.org/programme.html?id=822Advert Image: signal-noise-showrooms-part-2- jan-20-21.jpg
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MIT
Dates: Thursday, 1 December, 2011 to Wednesday, 1 February, 2012External Link: http://mitpress.mit.edu/main/home/default.aspAdvert Image: mit_082011.gif
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The Illegitimacy of Demands
By Demetra Kotouza With demands over the wage and welfare in austerity Greece deemed illegitimate because unaffordable, what shape can struggle take? Demetra Kotouza sees the all out attack on living...
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