Table of Contents

- 'Mute's 100 % Cut by ACE - A Personal Consideration of Mute's Defunding' by co-founder Pauline van Mourik Broekman - Editorial by Josephine Berry Slater - 'Frequently Asserted Fallacies of the Crisis and How to Quash Them' Mute contributors subject the media 'debate' on the crisis and the cuts to a write-down - 'Contain This! Leaks, Whistle-Blowers and the Networked News Ecology' Felix Stalder on what drives WikiLeaks style investigative journalism - 'Zaha Hadid Architects and the Neoliberal Avant-Garde' Owen Hatherley takes a look at the fluid architecture and financial times of Zaha Hadid Architects - 'Body Bomb' an artist's project by Mimi Leung - 'The Light Years: Contemporary Art in the Age of Weightless Capital' Anna Dezeuze differentiates the light touch of precarious art from a pervasive weightlessness - 'Music is the Crime that Contains All Others' Demetra Kotouza plucks the Greek rebel sound of rebetiko from its critical frame-up - 'Fordism? Who's that For, Men Only?' Noreen MacDowell gets under the bonnet of Made in Dagenham's portrayal of the Ford machinists' struggle for equal pay - 'Clio Barnard's Talking Heads' Omar El-Khairy on Clio Barnard's anxious film about the life of working class playwright Andrea Dunbar - 'Occultural Studies 2.0: Passionate Divas' Eugene Thacker on the radical effects of Italian silent cinema's doomed divas - 'Listener as Operator' Howard Slater on the 'shared precarity' of compositional improvising - 'Dear Living Person' John Russell reads avant-gardism off against Etruscan corpse torture - 'Anti-Disciplinary Feedback and the Will to Effect' Lars Bang Larsen tunes into the affective politics of counter-cultural good vibrations - 'Short Circuits: Finance, Feedback and Culture' Benedict Seymour asks if minimalism is the avant-garde of financialisation - 'From Coca to Capital: Free Trade Cocaine' John Barker on first world junkie-capitalism and the finance and fuel it needs to drive its delusional growth - 'In the Mud and Blood of Networks' Anthony Iles talks to artist Graham Harwood about Coal-Fired Computers and the body blow of immaterial production

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Mute magazine (www.metamute.org) provides an imaginative, experimental and exacting response to the challenges and contours of technologically-driven late capitalism. Drawing on a wide field of writers, theorists, artists, technologists, poets and political activists, the magazine offers an original and uncompromising analysis of our contemporary landscape. Mute has developed a track record for rethinking the truisms and default logics of both dominant and oppositional cultures. From excavations of the cybernetic fantasies of '90s net culture and the euphoria of networked anti-capitalist activism, through to class and aesthetic analyses of the Creative City model and predictions of the Financial Crisis - Mute has often pioneered critical and singular responses to contemporary events.