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RIOTING WITH REASON: FROM ENGLAND TO SWEDEN AND BACK AGAIN
Why do English sociologists and politicians find riots so much more explicable when they happen overseas? Nina Power finds an international logic behind 'national' expressions of rage The idea of the...
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Wanderings of the Slave: Black life and Social Death
For the theorists of Afro-pessimism, black non-existence forms a negativity against which white liveliness and freedom defines itself positively. Surveying this theoretical tendency against a backdrop...
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Fortress Taksim
Report from Taksim, Istanbul. Reflections and reenforcement after days of chaos and drama. Our reporters Reuben & Gielty take to the streets of Istanbul to find out more about the protestors and...
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Translation of Anomie/Bonhomie into Serbo-Croatian
We're pleased to announce Howard Slater's book, Anomie/Bonhomie & Other Writings, published by Mute Books, has been translated into Serbo-Croatian with a new cover, additional material and...
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Performative Equations and Neoliberal Commodification: The Case of Climate
In Vol 3 #4, Mute attempted to wrap its collective brain around the steep abstractions of one of capitalism’s strangest products: HFT algorithms. In this article Larry Lohmann, describing capitalism’s...
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Access and Repulsion
Stefan Szczelkun reviews All Knees and Elbows of Susceptibility and Refusal: Reading History from Below by Anthony Iles and Tom Roberts Historians from below attempted to displace conservative...
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Free Alexei Gaskarov and Political Prisoners in Russia!
Antonio Negri on the arrest and imprisonment of the Russian activist Alexei Gaskarov. Mute is publishing his letter and calling on our readers to sign the petition (details below) in solidarity with...
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From Eternity to Here
Responding to the publication of a new edition of communard Blanqui's elliptical cosmic work, Eternity by the Stars, Sean Bonney notes the conjunction of defeat, imprisonment, hell's eternity and its...
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The Shadow of Ikea-ification Falls On Us All
A recent exhibition, The Whole Earth: California and the Disappearance of the Outside, interrogated what pale blue fragments lie in the wake of the whole earth’s broken promise. Review by Hannah Black...
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Populous Front
Howard Slater explores the vicissitudes of popular unity, from the history of compromises by variously aligned popular fronts to recent struggles in which ‘internal populations’ and the repressed or...
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Speculative Architectures
Do algorithms think? Do buildings speculate? In his review of Luciana Parisi’s recent book, Contagious Architecture, Jeremy Lecomte considers her claim that parametric architecture is a mode of...
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The Period of the Sleeping Fits
In his final Occultural Studies column, Eugene Thacker surveys the ‘unspeakable life’, work and dreams of surrealist poet, Robert Desnos On the evening of the 25 September, 1922, a small group gathers...
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The Speculative Horror Academy
A gothic ruin provides the heady setting for John Cunningham’s short story exploring horror as a condition for contemporary thought The building is crumbling. Almost, but not quite, a ruin, its doorway...
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Lotta Poetica
The Arab Spring is well known for the movement of the Squares and the explosion of demands for democracy and an end to corruption in the Middle East. Within and beyond this, argues Howard Slater, it is...
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Open Letter from staff at University of London colleges against the...
Wednesday night’s eviction of a student occupation of the University of London’s Senate House building crossed another threshold in the criminalization of protest on our campuses. Rather than...
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A letter of support for Irina Putilova from the Post-Soviet left community
Irina Putilova, an LGBTQ activist and artist, is in detention at Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre. She is scheduled for fast-track removal to Russia where she faces certain imprisonment. The...
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Crisis in the Cleaning Sector
Struggle in the UK may have seemed at a low ebb post-2011, but outsourced cleaners' and other low-paid workers' campaigns for better wages and conditions have been a lesson in the power of the...
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Unified Fabric at Arcadia Missa
Unified Fabric at Arcadia Missa from Common Practice Video Network on Vimeo.Unified Fabric is an installation, video, render farm, and sound piece by artist Harry Sanderson. Also within the Unified...
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The Distribution of the Insensible
Setting out from a strong critique of the aesthetics of Jacques Rancière, Nathan Brown reappraises the relationship between labour, physicality and media understood through the work of artist Nicolas...
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Momentous and Deflationary Times
A short video conversation between Anthony Iles, Aileen Burns & Johan Lundh, in the context of CCA Derry’s Momentous Times exhibition, which brought an internationalist and confrontational edge to...
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