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Mute - Issue 29 - Winter/Spring 2005

Mute - Issue 29 - Winter/Spring 2005
Publication Date 2005
Abstract Peak Oil and National Security: A Critique of Energy Alternatives // George Caffentzis analyses contemporary energy politics: is US national energy independence enough? ; Basic Instinct: Trauma and Retrenchment 2000-4 // Anthony Davies surveys the recent history of art, business and activism and explores some disquieting parallels :A special section on the politics of precarious labour ; Precari-us? // Angela Mitropoulos on the use and misuse of the notion of precariousness as applied to the conditions of labour under neoliberalism ; Precarious Straits // Marina Vishmidt on the dubious equation of artists with other forms of insecure (service) workers ; Cheap Chinese // John Barker on the perilous and exploitative employment of economic migrants essential to capitalist productivity today Wages for Anyone is Bad for Business // Laura Sullivan spoke to Selma James and Nina Lopez about women's involvement in Venezuela's `Bolivarian revolution' and the State's recent recognition of the economic value of women's labour ; PROJECT SPACE: Safe Institution -ú Fooling the Present, F*cking the Future// London Rising Tide visits the `Energy ú fuelling the future' exhibition at the Science Museum in London ; A special section exploring the complicity, and potential oppositionality, of art in neoliberal urbanism ; The Shape of Locative Media// Simon Pope navigates the emerging genre of locative art ; Mysteries of the Creative Class, or, I Have Seen The Enemy and They Is Us// Gregory Sholette on REPOhistory and their fight to re-write the official story of urban renewal in Manhattan ; Explaining Urbanism to Wild Animals// Mark Crinson on some contemporary artists' attempts to engage with urban histories and collective memory ; Another Gaze// Simon Njami on the changing relation of the international art world to African art ; Oh I love freedom! But what is it?// Mattin on the politics of musical improvisation ; PROJECT SPACE: Migrasophia// Zeigam Azizov's specially comissioned art project ; The Dissolving Fortress -ú Notes on the Future of WIPO// JJ King on the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)'s adoption of a 'Development Agenda' ; Inside Out// Stella Santacatterina reviews the Helen Chadwick retrospective, at the Barbican, London Network Culture// Steve Wright reviews Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age by Tiziana Terranova Waste Product// Hari Kunzru on a new documentary about Gustav Metzger Sex Cells// Andrew Goffey reviews Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire by Luciana Parisi Terminal Platitudes// Daniel Jewesbury reviews Terminal Frontiers, a show at Streetlevel Photoworks in Glasgow The Dishonour of Poets// Howard Slater reviews The Yale Anthology of Twentieth Century French Poetry, ed. Mary Ann Caws Haunted Sublimity// Ben Watson reviews David Toop's Haunted Weather The Death of the Death of the Portrait// Richard Wright reviews the exhibition About Face, Hayward Gallery, London Bug Report// Christian Nold reviews Jodi's solo show at FACT, Manchester Art(s Council) History// Olga Goriunova reviews New Media Art: Practice and Context in the UK 1994-2004, edited by Lucy Kimbell Post-Humanism=Post-Animality// Tim Savage reviews Donna Haraway's Companion Species Manifesto Back to the Future -ú Ars Electronica at 25// Michelle Kasprzak reviews this year's festival in Linz The Insecurity Lasts a Long Time// Anthony Iles reviews Republicart's issue on precarious labour Under the Pavement, the Id// Josephine Berry Slater reviews Paul Noble's show at The Whitechapel Gallery, London Something over against is (or) Accidence commenced// Anja Büchele and Matthew Hyland on the works of poet Susan Howe The Wireless Loveboat: ISEA 2004// Armin Medosch on the 12th International Symposium on Electronic Arts
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