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Since the advent of multiculturalism in the 1970s, the redefinition of race in cultural terms has gone hand in hand with an official discourse of respect for cultural difference and diversity. Today, in the wake of 9/11, the rhetoric of tolerance is visibly breaking...

Author: MuteISBN-10: 1906496293ISBN-13: 9781906496296Publisher: MuteLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/13/2009Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.34d

The state is pouring billions into propping up the collapsing financial sector, but who is going to take care of the rest of us? Between Hollywood's embattled superbats and the gruesome charisma contests of political party leaders, we can be sure of one thing...

In this issue of Mute we revisit the question of 'the human' in the age of biopolitics. What do philosophers, activists and 'pro-revolutionaries' have to say about homo sapiens in a world where monstrous claims on value demand populations be reduced to 'bare (hardworking)...

Post-Fordist state planners, developers, and their entrepreneurial service arm have debased the meaning of 'creativity' to a shallow pretext for the further looting of cities and public wealth. The cookie-cutter aestheticisation of selective zones of our cities (tourist promenades, waterside public art, creative quarters),...

Featuring; Falling for the Future - Iain Boal brings modernity's futuramas back down to earth. Citizens Banned? - Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony Iles review the AV media arts festival. Crisis in the Visual System - Paul Helliwell argues the art world's favourite philosopher,...

Featuring; Falling for the Future - Iain Boal brings modernity's futuramas back down to earth. Citizens Banned? - Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony Iles review the AV media arts festival. Crisis in the Visual System - Paul Helliwell argues the art world's favourite philosopher,...

According to UN research data, by 2030 half of the world's population will be living in slums. Meanwhile, in Durban, residents of Forman and Kennedy Road settlements risk arrest and police violence to protest forced eviction and demand clean drinking water and sanitation. The...

Contains texts on the politics of precarious labour. Concerning labour history, part-time freelance, unpaid employment and house work. The erosion of the welfare state, globalisation social precariousness and protest against this condition.Author: MuteISBN-10: 0955066409ISBN-13: 9780955066405Publisher: MuteLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/05/2000Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...