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Some more interesting material recently on the Mute Site

Mute which I drew attention to on this blog before also tends to publish some quality articles that don't make it into the print version, here are some recent ones..

In the Bowels of the Fun Palace
By Mark Crinson

Architect Cedric Price's designs were seldom realised but his vision
inspired 'fun palaces' from the Beaubourg to the Millenium Dome. Mark
Crinson looks at two recent publications which deal in different ways
with Price and his legacy


French Banlieues and Urban Guerrillas

By Yves Coleman

Mute recently published Italian sociologist Emilio Quadrelli’s long
text
on the 2005 riots in the French banlieues, ‘Grassroots Political
Militants: Banlieusards and Politics’. Here, Parisian activist Yves
Coleman responds to the claims and arguments made by Quadrelli and the

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