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The Assassination Surge on those Fighting Corruption
Political assassinations in South Africa have become a feature sustained by corruption, infighting and the "ruling party's hegemony"03 Oct 2014Reposted from:...
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Wanna Play? Game Over
Sometimes ethical claims about public space and 'free expression' conceal private interests and violence against the oppressed. Jacob Bard Rosenberg on the case of Dries Verhoeven and some problematic...
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No Subject
A short story about information rag picking and unsolicited communication 1.I am the general manager of the international company IFSD Incorporated and I have a favourable offer for you concerning the...
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The Jet-Set Peasantry: where no passenger is not drunk
The rabble is a fundamental problem for Hegel argues Frank Ruda. Sacha Kahir reviews Ruda’s Rabble, piecing together and pushing onwards the fragmented parts of civil society’s cyclonic contradiction...
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Boycott the Zabludowicz Foundation!
Mute is hosting this statement in solidarity with the call for a boycott of the Zabludowicz Foundation. It was originally published online a few months ago during the latest round of violent atrocities...
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Forensis Is Forensics Where There Is No Law
During Forensis, an exhibition and conference at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin this Spring, researcher-curators Eyal Weizman and Anselm Franke talked to Gal Kirn and Niloufar Tajeri about...
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All the World’s a Platform
A dispatch from Berlin on post-internet art by Jacob Bard-Rosenberg reposted from: http://prolapsarian.tumblr.com/post/105025464662/all-the-worlds-a-platform-dispatches-from-berlin Strewn across the...
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The Body is Evidence
In his review-collage of Forensis, a book of essays accompanying the recent Forensic Architecture exhibition at Berlin's Haus der Kulturen der Welt, artist Martin Howse discovers not only the...
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An eye for an eye and the whole world can see: State Violence, Street Justice
Political violence doesn't happen in isolation. If you already knew that, pay attention as Alex Gawenda and Ashok Kumar connect Nat Turner, Ranajit Guha, black Zimbabweans' hands-on land reform,...
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Burning Dwelling Thinking
After the Insurrection that was to come The Invisible Committee’s À nos amis assesses the defeats and 'permanent catastrophe' which never stopped. Alberto Toscano’s extended review, ahead of the book’s...
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When the Streets Run Red: For a 21st-Century Anti-Lynching Movement
The heterogeneous elements of the Black Lives Matter movement are fighting white supremacy by confronting gendered domination, capitalism, and the repressive apparatuses of the state. Erin Gray traces...
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THE PAST DEVOURS THE FUTURE: PIKETTY'S CAPITAL
Sander casts a critical eye on Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century and the debates it provoked Since its English translation was published, Piketty’s book has made quite a splash on both sides...
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Regeneration Is Violence
Southwark Notes on the early bloom of London housing struggles in 2015. Reposted from: https://southwarknotes.wordpress.com/2015/02/21/regeneration-is-violence/How is it in London in 2015 that people...
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In and Out of Art and Work: On the W.A.G.E. Certificate
In 2014 W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy) launched a campaign of certification which ‘publicly recognizes non-profit arts organizations [...] paying artist fees that meet a minimum...
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To Be a Pilgrim
Helen Macfarlane was a Chartist revolutionary, the translator who put the ‘hobgoblin’ in the Communist Manifesto, and an advocate of ‘the total demolition of the present system of things’ on Christian...
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passed over to a broken machine
Faced with trauma, language’s impoverishment is exposed. Other emotional experiences - love, anger, depression, hunger, or even desire, that infest the body with unfamiliarity, find explication through...
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Chronicle of a Crash Foretold
In John Barker’s Futures, an expertly crafted crime novel exploring cocaine trafficking in Thatcherite London, Tom Jennings finds a parable of neoliberalism with considerably broader resonance Set in...
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Art, Value, and the Freedom Fetish
If art is a commodity, is it just a commodity, subject to the law of value? Or does art's distinctive process of production render it capable of a relative, and critical, independence? Daniel Spaulding...
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Capital and Community: On Melanie Gilligan’s Trilogy
In his assessment of the latest film in Melanie Gilligan’s trilogy on crisis, capital and community Jasper Bernes emphasises the necessity and difficulty of distinguishing between the community of...
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Building Downwards
In their review of Keller Easterling’s Subtraction, Luisa Lorenza Corna and Alan Adam Smart interrogate an architectural theory that makes an economic virtue of contracted social reproduction Since...
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