Origin and Extinction, Mourning and Melancholia
If extinction is inscribed into and necessary for the emergence of life, how, asks Nathan Brown, can we ever integrate the mourned object into our material lives? And what part, if any, can cinema play...
View ArticleThey Want the Money, So Do We
Madame Tlank reviews Selma James, Sex Race and Class: the Perspective of Winning, Oakland: PM Press, 2012 In memoriam, Shulamith Firestone Selma James is a great speaker. This collection of her...
View ArticleThe Garden of Earthly Delights
Establishing a temporary experimental research station within spitting distance of East London's Olympic Park, The Crystal World proposed to decrystallise digital dystopia and recrystallise unlikely...
View ArticleVerso
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View ArticleCrowdfunding Campaign
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View ArticleThe Crystal World
Jonathan Kemp and Martin Howse, contributors to The Crystal World exhibition, recently reviewed on Metamute, sift through some organic, inorganic and literary materials related to the project The...
View ArticleThe Ghosts of Participation Past
Claire Bishop's new book, Artificial Hells, considers the history of participation as an organising principle of avant-garde art, but also of liberal democracy. Review by Josephine Berry Slater...
View ArticleSummer of Hate
Hestia Peppe reviews Chris Kraus' Summer of Hate Chris Kraus has a new book out. Conveniently described as a novel – a shorthand to distinguish it from her 'non-fiction' essay writing – Summer of...
View ArticleNothing is better than love: how not to repeat Weimar in Greece
The following is a commentary on Paul Mason's important but flawed article on the situation in Greece: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-20105881 Paul Mason's recent reports on the rise of the Golden...
View ArticleArt Monthly
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View ArticleArt Licks
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View ArticleMIT Nov 2012
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View ArticleMIT Nov 2012
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View ArticleWe Did It
‘We’ did it! Mute has managed to raise more than £6,017 towards continuing to pay all of the writers, artists, illustrators and photographers who help generate Mute’s unique editorial content. All of...
View ArticleBurn-out in the Global Call Centre
Friends of the call centre worker’s inquiry collective, Kolinko, update their work a decade and a global crisis later, from massive outsourcing to India to digital ‘on-shoring’ in the West Call centres...
View ArticleAccessible Confrontation
To what extent can contrived intimate conversation, address its own contrivance asks Robbie Ellen of Tino Seghal’s performance work These AssociationsConfrontation (Intro) A group of 30 to 100 people...
View ArticleHalf-Truths
Susan Schuppli discusses the exhibition by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Aural Contract: The Whole Truth, at Casco in Utrecht In her 1971 essay, ‘Lying in Politics’, Hannah Arendt contends that in order to act,...
View ArticleLondon Bookshop Map 2013
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View ArticleTING 2013
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View ArticleBang!
If dogs sit faithfully at the lowest and highest reaches of human history might they provide a useful guide for exploration of an anthropocene which is both tragic and absurd? Hannah Black reviews...
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