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ByBen Seymour A piece on the weekend's 'Youth Fight For Jobs' march and some comments from me. This article is useful and critical but also provoking. Manages not to mention the SWP somehow but makes clear the problem of a front-built movement without a back or base. And the key question is raised: 20% youth unemployment and no movement, no struggle; how bad does it have to get? read more
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TOMORROW! Mute book launch, exhibition and party for our new Anthology! 6-9pm at the Slade Research Centre London WC1 http://linkme2.net/?LID=ix
ByJon Bywater Punks collecting things other than safety pins and STDs? Jon Bywater looks at the tendency among Punk enthusiasts to compile catalogues and measure their contents in this month's Mute music column read more
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<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> As the Creative City model for urban regeneration founders on the rocks of the recession, and the New Labour public art commissioning frenzy it triggered recedes, Anthony Iles and Josephine Berry Slater take stock of an era of highly instrumentalised public art making. read more
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ByNeil Gray Forced out of the areas they occupy, the involuntary subjects of urban gentrification confront a double challenge: the need for housing, and the need to radicalise campaigns beyond the parialimentary liberalism of rights discourse - writes Neil Gray in his extended report on last August's Right to Stay Put conference in Manchester read more
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Review- Meaning Liam Gillick, whose convergence of post-Fordist production and relational aesthetics isn't political http://linkme2.net/?LID=i6
ByStewart Martin Stewart Martin reviews Meaning Liam Gillick, the catalogue that isn't a catalogue, inspired by its namesake's oeuvre, whose interest in the convergence of post-Fordist production and relational aesthetics isn't political read more
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By Damian Abbott Having chosen the conspicuously tranquil site of Blackheath for Climate Camp 2009, attention shifted from the politics of land occupation to the camp’s panic-fuelled green authoritarianism. Report by Damian Abbott
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By Scott Lenney Between playful graffiti on the walls of the Sorbonne and long denunciations of the spectacle lies the enigma that is Guy Debord's Game of War. Veteran gamer Scott Lenney played a match with Class Wargames at their Summer Offensive, enjoyed it thoroughly but wondered at the aim of the game
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By Daniel Miller As the urban grid of modernity gives way to the web, and architecture cedes to the virtual dynamics of tethered electronics, Daniel Miller cracks open the password protected ‘post-city'
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New! Climate Camp Report: the politics of land occupation versus the camp’s panic-fuelled green authoritarianism http://linkme2.net/?LID=i4