Bitcoin is a decentralised digital currency deploying peer-to-peer networking to enable secure and anonymous transactions without a central bank. Unlike many economic commentators, The Wine and Cheese...
Gregory Sholette’s book, Dark Matter, provides a useful collectivising term for those artists who produce the art world from below. But, wonders Stefan Szczelkun, how can we talk about cultural excl...
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The act of smashing glass can reveal the material's most troubling quality: its transparency may invite us to look, but not necessarily to enter. Mark Crinson considers the smashed shop fronts of l...
Nearly a year after the attenuation of a wave of further and higher education struggles against state-led ‘decomposition’, Danny Hayward looks back at the faultlines within this resistance and the...
Objectively pessimistic or just plain grouchy? Schopenhauer’s ethics, which threw out positive conceptions of freedom and the human will, might put anyone in a bad mood. But, writes Eugene Thacke...
Objectively pessimistic or just plain grouchy? Schopenhauer’s ethics, which threw out positive conceptions of freedom and the human will, might put anyone in a bad mood. But, writes Eugene Thacke...
Book Launch & Poetry Reading Howard Slater's 'Anomie/Bonhomie & Other Writings' Tuesday, 24 January 2012, 7-9pm. Møllegades Boghandel, Møllegade 8A, 2200 Kbh. N, Denmark About...
Signal:Noise II Friday 20 – Saturday 21 January 2012 The Showroom Gallery, 63 Penfold Street, London NW8 Introduction Building on the success of Signal:Noise I in January 2011, the second i...
Signal:Noise II Friday 20 – Saturday 21 January 2012 The Showroom Gallery, 63 Penfold Street, London NW8 Introduction Building on the success of Signal:Noise I in January 2011, the second...
Micromegas Introducing W. Watson-Baker’s 1935 book, World Beneath the Microscope, the English artist and critic William Gaunt wrote: We are no longer so excited as formerly by the account of tri...
23 HOURS, 23 MINUTES The following is a chapter, written specifically for the “24 Hours” issue of Cabinet, of Crude, a novel in progress. The story so far: We are in an alternative reality,...
By Cameron BainThe exhibition, Home of Metal, celebrates forty years of heavy metal music while foregrounding Birmingham’s industrial past. In an act of ‘dedicated mining’, Cameron Bain fol...
By Benedict SeymourThe image's mediation of the past is far from nostalgically comforting, writes Benedict Seymour in his review of Les Marques Aveugles at the Centre d'Art Contemporain i...
By Angela MitropoulosWith a mass default on US student debt threatening to create the next subprime crisis, Angela Mitropoulos dissects the pious injunction to ‘live within ones means', rem...
By Chris WrightAs the occupy movement in the US this week shifts its attention from the shiny crystallisations of high finance to the hubs of material circulation, Chris Wright reviews Paul Matti...
By Demetra Kotouza With demands over the wage and welfare in austerity Greece deemed illegitimate because unaffordable, what shape can struggle take? Demetra Kotouza sees the all out attack...
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By Gail Day The V&A’s Postmodernism exhibition acted like an industrial trawler, disembedding three decades of cultural artefacts from their diverse ecologies. The result, writes Gail Day,...
By Howard SlaterHoward Slater grasps the August riots as the appearance of an ‘unrecognisable demos' which challenges the very ability of capitalist democracy to include or contain the lang...
Book Launch, 8th December 2011, 6.30pm – 9.00pm The Showroom,63 Penfold Street, London, NW8 8PQ RSVP via Facebook Mute invites you to come and celebrate the launch o...
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By Sarah TaylorAfter August’s riots and with a student demonstration on 9 November and a national strike on 30 November planned Sarah Taylor asks, will the contradictions of last year’s stude...
By Lorena Rivero de Beer Liverpool's recent Rewire conference looked to advance new and progressive readings of media art and theory. But, asks Lorena Rivero de Beer, who was it speaking to a...
By Jennifer GabrysJussi Parikka's recent book Insect Media simultaneously expands the field of media theory and the purview of biopolitics by thinking about the more-than-human development of...
You’ve written on cuteness, on envy, on boredom, and now on the interesting. If it could be said that there is a unified project behind these topics, what is it? I’m interested in states of we...
It was an unusual coincidence, one that presented a difficult choice. Mossad agent Rafi Eitan described the missed opportunity to an interviewer from Der Spiegel almost fifty years later: In the s...
By Anustup BasuTwittering teens or absolutist ayatollahs, men we can do business with or loony autocrats? The media's proliferation of polarities is a strategy to fragment the connectedness o...
By Andrea TocchiniIn the slipstream of a media campaign Tories are quickly gaining momentum for a new initiative to criminalise squatting in England and Wales. Andrea Tocchini sizes up the homele...
By John RussellAs the image of Margaret Thatcher circulates through the media ecology, John Russell's public art work in Southend-on-Sea works to redirect its affective charge. The Iron Lady,...
By Benjamin NoysIf Westerns allegorise a mythical space of gradual resolution and order, the western all'italiana explodes the American dream of stabilising prosperity with excessive violence...
By Mark NeocleousAnxious subjects are also docile and self-absorbed subjects. The neoliberal state's production of generalised anxiety through non-stop risk preemption and contingency plannin...
By Brian AshtonIn the second contribution to a group of articles on logistics, workplace surveillance and national security, Brian Ashton zooms in on the microscopic technologies surveilling and...
By Alberto Toscano'Sabotage the social machine'. 'Incinerate the documents!'. In the first contribution to a group of articles on logistics, workplace surveillance and national...
By Evan Calder Williams and China MiévilleIs salvagepunk sci-fi with left politics? Laptops with brass trimmings? Anything that looks kind of like Mad Max? At a recent event in London China Mié...
By James HeartfieldThe phone-hacking scandal hasn't only revealed the true sleaziness of Britain's establishment, but also the resounding hollowness of a post-ideological elite held toget...
By SanderAll over the world, the capitalist states are taking austerity measures to slow the growth of their debts. It is obvious that this policy, since it slows consumption, can't in itself...
By Christopher CollierTwo recent books focusing on the Situationist International, Expect Anything Fear Nothing and The Beach Beneath the Street, salvage the plurality of the group's activiti...
By Madame Tlank and Mira MattarA recent study-day on Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care at Birkbeck University provoked two writers to examine the politics, pieties and pain cluster...
By Eleonora Oreggia The recent edition of the Netaudio festival, staged in London, posed the question of the sonic and musical properties specific to the internet. Multimedia artist and musician...
By Benedict SeymourThanks to the pervasive logic of cybernetics and the planetary roll-out of digital networks, feedback has come to determine the behaviour of post-war capitalism and culture. Ex...
By Break the blackoutThis is a regular blog with the latest developments from the popular assemblies, the streets, neighbourhoods and workplaces. There was a virtual blackout in international m...
In The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera wrote: “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” This perspective—one that bears the marks of life u...
How do you design a utopia? In 1972, John B. Calhoun detailed the specifications of his Mortality-Inhibiting Environment for Mice: a practical utopia built in the laboratory. Every aspect of Universe...
By Mira Mattar The feminist film archive housed and animated by the collective Cinenova poses many perplexing questions about how the gender politics and aesthetics of the recent past relate to...
By L.S.In the first of a blog series aiming to deepen and politicise understandings of the revolts across the Arab world, L.S. kicks off with an anatomisation of the distribution of power, wealth...
By Lars Bang LarsenThe recursive forms of feedback made strange bedfellows out of cold war cybernetics and tripped-out psychedelia. In a reworking of a talk given at the Showroom gallery's Si...
'Double Negative Feedback' expresses the hope that the chaos unleashed by the cybernetic loops of financialisation, post-Fordist production and networked life might not only be entropic and...
By Anna DezeuzeThe art of our financialised times often resembles the weightless mobility of capital. But how does the unbearable lightness of certain art works differ from the loaded lightness o...
By Diarmuid HesterPlacing the cross-hair of analysis over the postmodern notion that everything is language, Speculative Realism is a philosophy that instead considers the relations between objec...
By Eugene Thacker Demonology is not simply the study of demons, but of noise's assault on signal - a media theory avant la lettre, writes Eugene Thacker According to Socrates,...
By Convened by David MorrisConcluding their three-part exchange for Mute, artist Alfredo Jaar and philosopher Simon Critchley contemplate how to keep on, artistically and politically, in the face...
By John Cunningham In the elegant and obscure Letters Journal, an anonymous collective traverses the black hole of nihilism to elude capitalism's all-encompassing ability to swallow resistanc...
By Matthew FullerIf the appetite to read comes with reading, then open text archive Aaaaarg.org is a great place to stimulate and sate your hunger. Here, Matthew Fuller talks to long-term observe...
By Charlie GereIn two recent books - Web Aesthetics and Interface Criticism - new media critics rescue the sensuality of digital aesthetics from the gnostic grip of communications theory. Review...
By Convened by David MorrisDeveloping their earlier discussion of news media's screening of global events, artist Alfredo Jaar and philosopher Simon Critchley consider how images can conceal,...
By Graham HarwoodThe census stands at the very beginning of the biopolitical process of converting people into populations. In the wake of the 2011 Census, Graham Harwood considers its provision...