Mute Magazine - Vol 2 #11

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Simon Worthington

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491_9781906496265

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In this issue of Mute we revisit the question of the human in the age of biopolitics. What do philosophers, activists and pro-revolutionaries have to say about homo sapiens in a world where monstrous claims on value demand populations be reduced to bare (hardworking) life? From repression of messy species being in revolutionary milieus, to the managerial dream of putting supposed species traits like language and empathy to work, the stakes of determining humanness, or resisting that determination, are high.Burdened by the Absence of Billions?Howard Slater reviews Frére Duponts Species Being and Other StoriesHes Not Beyond Good and EvilNina Power asks if theres a point to Paolo Virnos unhappy humanMonstrous Plans & Good HabitatsMark Crinson on suggestions that anti-colonisation struggles were also about architectureThe Political Immunity of DiscourseErik Empson on Roberto Espositos BiosWishful Thinkers of the Calamity BazaarJohn Barker says the time to attack the fantasy world of capitalist spin-doctors is nowThe Who and Whom of Liberty TakingPeter Linebaugh asks how its possible to discuss liberty in the absence of equalityDuck! You Regeneration SuckerNeil Gray watches David Panos and Anja Kirschners Trail of the Spider and finds history repeating itselfThe Sleep of Realism Produces MonstersAndrew Fisher considers documentary maker Adam Curtis claims to realism and political neutralityQuarterly, critical and cheap, Mute is a concrete jumble of all thats still grunting in the inter-finessing hyper-barrios of culture, politics and technology 2.0. As capitalism yawns towards apocalypse we match it issue by issue with a sustained critique of everything existing, from eco prole-bashing and shanty chic to academic aut-onanist marxistry

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