[OPE-L] Mute Magazine: The Precarious Issue

From: Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM
Date: Tue Feb 22 2005 - 13:28:49 EST


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> MUTE MAGAZINE. CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET. ISSUE 29
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> The Precarious Issue
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> The new Mute magazine is out now. Unravelling the politics of
> precariousness, Peak Oil, locative art, and much more, it's 144 pages
> of mental labour you'll want to perform again and again.
>
> Here are a few samples of the writing and links to selected stories
> featured on Metamute.com, our online home. Enjoy!
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> All the best,
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> Josephine Berry Slater, Benedict Seymour, Anthony Iles, Pauline van
> Mourik Broekman, Simon Worthington, Demetra Kotouza, Matthew Hyland,
> Jamie King, Hari Kunzru, Laura Sullivan
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> Special Section: Exploring Precariousness
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> 'The idea of social unity in shared precariousness is linked to the
> insight that "all life is work" . But "all life is work", doesn't mean
> all work is the same.'
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> Precarious work and the figure of the precarious worker are suddenly
> ubiquitous in the discourse of activists in Europe and beyond. But is
> this open-ended, ill defined category useful for understanding and
> organising against contemporary capitalism?
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> Mute presents four critical accounts of the pitfalls and inequalities
> emerging in the discourse of precarity:
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> Precari-us?
> by Angela Mitropoulos
> A grammar of precarity: the use and mis-use of the notion of
> precariousness as applied to the conditions of labour under neoliberalism
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> http://linkme2.net/2h
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> Precarious Straits
> by Marina Vishmidt
> On the dubious equation of artists with other forms of insecure
> (service) workers
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> http://linkme2.net/2i
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> Cheap Chinese
> by John Barker
> Some precarious labour is more dangerous than others. How do corporate
> employers in the UK shift risk and responsibility on to the economic
> migrants they hyper-exploit?
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> http://linkme2.net/2j
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> Wages for Anyone is Bad for Business
> by Laura Sullivan
> The Venezuelan state has recently recognised the economic value of
> women's (unwaged) labour. Selma James and Nina Lopez talked to Laura
> Sullivan about women's involvement in Venezuela's 'Bolivarian revolution'
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> http://linkme2.net/2k
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> Peak Oil and National Security: A Critique of Energy Alternatives
> by George Caffentzis
> The notion that global oil production is about to reach its peak
> before entering irreversible decline - the 'Peak Oil' hypothesis - is
> cited by some anti-Bush groups as a major driver for US military
> imperialism in the Middle East. But is the world's supply of oil
> really about to run out? And is the anti-Bush campaigners' call for US
> energy independence as progressive as it might seem?
> George Caffentzis gives a detailed analysis of contemporary energy
> politics and argues that a politically alternative project of national
> energy independence that does not challenge the neoliberal order is
> not alternative enough
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> http://linkme2.net/2f
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> Trauma and Retrenchment 2000-4
> by Anthony Davies
> Four years ago Mute published Anthony Davies and Simon Ford's
> influential article Culture Clubs (Mute18), a piece which surveyed the
> landscape of partnerships and alliances between business, art and
> politics that was shaping the late '90s culture of convergence. Today,
> in the wake of the dotcom crash, September 11th, the War on Terror,
> and Enron, we have seen the (re)emergence of some less euphoric, more
> risk-averse tendencies. Here, Anthony Davies presents an audit of an
> era of retrenchment and explores the pre-history of some of the
> conservative trends shaping the present
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> http://linkme2.net/2g
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> PLUS
> JJ King on the future of WIPO, Steve Wright on Tiziana Terranova's
> Network Culture, Christian Nold on Jodi's solo show at FACT, Ben
> Watson on David Toop, Hari Kunzru on Gustav Metzger, Mattin on the
> politics of musical improvisation, Tim Savage on Donna Haraway' s
> Companion Species Manifesto, Anja Büchele and Matthew Hyland on poet
> Susan Howe, Armin Medosch on ISEA, artist's project by Zeigam
> Azizov, and much more!!!
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