Josephine Berry Slater

Pauline Van Mourik Broekman

This is a collection of articles published in Mute magazine. The articles analyse culture and politics after the arrival of the Internet. This is an overview of contemporary culture, particularly in relationship to the ways in which the logic of technology intersects with that of art and music, and with the logic of business.

A Mute Magazine Anthology of Cultural Politics After the Net

Proud to be Flesh

Julian Stallabrass

Niru Ratnam

Locus Solus: Site, Identity and Technology in Contemporary Art borrows its title from a book by Raymond Roussel, first published in 1914. The literal meaning of the phrase "Locus Solus" is unique or solitary place. In Roussel's book, a brilliant but perhaps deranged scientist pursues fantastical technological pursuits, including the re-animation of the dead and various projects which automate the making of works of art. Locus+, whose curatorial practice provides the content of Locus Solus are considered here through sub-headings dealing respectively with the power within boundaries and the subsequent specificity of site; identity and its demarcation; the crossing of borders by technology and its mutation. 60 b/w illustrations

Site, Identity, Technology in Contemporary Art

Locus Solus

Gary Hall

Ted Byfield

Simon Worthington

Shaun Hides

Open Education explores the disruption of the traditional university as a result of the increasingly widespread provision of free online open education.

A Study in Disruption

Open Education

Damian Jaques

In the early 1990s, long before the Internet became an integral part of life, a handful of pioneering magazines took it upon themselves to imagine the web into existence. Using fiction, interviews, speculative theory and experimental graphic design, these titles helped create a lexicon and iconography every bit as powerful as the architecture of the World Wide Web. London-based Mute occupied a central position here, wielding an influence vastly disproportionate to its size. This book presents a full overview of the magazine over a decade, showing its entire output - logos, covers and spreads. Using generous illustrations and in-depth captions, it details recurrent graphic themes and places Mute's evolution in perspective.

Mute Magazine Graphic Design

Pauline Van Mourik Broekman

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