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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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Chew on the Credit: New MUTE Out
Mute has been a journal I've being getting my jollies from since I came across it over two years ago. Always accessible, both meaning it always wings its way into my path and just weighty enough to remain readable - its become something of a critical ground for teasing out various themes around developments in capitalism, from multiculturalism, through precarious labour, web 2.0 production and environmental disaster. The new issue on the credit crunch is out now for reading online, though its nice to have it arrive in your letter box unexpected. Dubstep fans might also be interested in the fact that Kode9 occasionally writes for it.
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