Video Vortex XII proceedings: art, archive, algorithms, activism
Video Vortex, an artistic network concerned with the aesthetics and politics of online video, gathered again in Malta for a two-day conference. We were in particularly focussing on bringing new...
View ArticleCars, Riots & Black Liberation
The US saw some of the largest riots and protests in its history this year in response to the continuing police murder of black people – most recently the Walter Wallace Rebellion in Philadelphia. Yet...
View ArticlePrimer′
Benedict Seymour's speculative fiction on the post-internet artworld in London dates from June 2013 but points forward to the apotheosis of Trump (developer and author of 'The Art of the Deal'), and...
View ArticleThree Class Struggles and a Funeral
In his review of the recent book Class Power on Zero-Hours (PM Press, 2020), Danny Hayward reflects with enthusiasm on AngryWorkers' attempt to pop the left's cosmopolitan bubble, following their...
View ArticleClass Power on Zero-Hours (excerpt)
To coincide with Danny Hayward's review of Class Power on Zero-Hours we asked the AngryWorkers for permission to publish two excerpts from their recent book Greenford tube station. People wearing...
View ArticleThis isn't a Virus, it's a Time Machine
In a 2015 London Review of Books essay Fredric Jameson briefly imagines the Bolshevik Party as a kind of time machine. The party is a device by means of which Leninist revolutionaries effect a...
View ArticleBreakthroughs & Bait: on Xenofeminism & Alienation
Responding to Annie Goh’s critique of the Xenofeminist Manifesto ‘Appropriating the Alien: A Critique of Xenofeminism’ and Sophie Lewis' recent assessment in Red Pepper, Jules Joanne Gleeson takes...
View Articleboattr – the towpath bio- & technosphere
A boat book - computer book stored on a Raspberry Pi computer packaged in a VHS case Also available as online sd card image to download.Micro Computer Book SD image -...
View ArticleA Worker Informs a Lord on the Subject of the Guillotine
A Worker Informs a Lord on the Subject of the GuillotineAdapted from Heinrich Heine, Wintermärchen. 1844. “King Louis the fifteen died, Quite peaceful, alone in his bed.The sixteenth, however, was...
View ArticleMEMES WITH FORCE – LESSONS FROM THE YELLOW VESTS
People have theorised recent social movements as memes before. However, they tend to make the phrase eclipse the content, placing the (representational) meme over the (real) movement. In the following...
View ArticleThe Affair of the Burning Police Car: Translations of a Court Case
The Affair of the Burning Police CarIntroduction, La Serveuse, 2018 Texts, Frédéric Lordon, Nathalie Quintane, Serge Quaddrupanni & Alain Damasio, for lundi.am 2017Translations Lu Jin and La...
View ArticleThe Greenhouse Effect
Eco-friendly glass architecture that incorporates flora into its design is trending high among West Coast tech giants. Only last week, Amazon's 'Spheres' HQ opened in Seattle. Key Macfarlane traces the...
View ArticleChump Change: Decrypting Bitcoin & Blockchain
Artists and academics are jumping on the blockchain bandwagon and talking up the potential for cryptocurrency and distributed ledgers to mitigate austerity capitalism. Attractive as techno-monetary...
View ArticleTools of the Trade: The History of British Restraints
What form of technology is the police? Rees A offers a forensic analysis of the tools of jurisprudence and policing yu cyaant awsk Clinton McCurbinbout im haxfixiashaman yu cyaant awsk Joy Gardnerbout...
View ArticleAutomate This! Delivering Resistance in the Gig Economy
In the workplace automation and technology have tipped the balance of power greatly in favour of capital but, as Jamie Woodcock explains, workers are contesting this situation, logging out and calling...
View ArticleMute Archive FT Issues Release - 1994-97
As part of the ongoing Mute magazine archive project PDFs have been released of the early Mute issues printed on the FT press at East India Dock House, London.Mute issues 0 to 7 (1994-1997) can be...
View Article‘Total Paranoia’, Mute September 2001 Trilogy Revisited
#mute archive a triple gem! As part of the collaborative bibliographies residency at Anagram Books, Berlin. https://mute-publishing.github.io/archive/index.htmlMute Magazine – Total ParanoiaThe Metamap...
View ArticleMute Magazine Print Archive
Mute magazine ISSN 1356-7748 | Sales information PDF http://linkme2.net/w7 Twitter − https://twitter.com/mutemagazine Instagram − https://instagram.com/mute_publishing#mutearchiveThe Mute magazine...
View ArticleDemeaning the Future
Srnicek & Williams’ Inventing the Future proposes a forces-of-production-based programme leading to guaranteed basic income. But do the wageless workers of an already automated and accelerated...
View ArticlePlants, Androids and Operators review
This – also freely downloadable – anthology documents projects developed over a two and a half year period. Its critical nature emerges clearly through discussion of an ample range of cultural...
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