MUTE MAGAZINE VOL 2 11

ISBN: 9781906496265 Géneros: AB:PSAF Sinópsis: In this issue of Mute we revisit the question of the human in the age of biopolitics What do philosophers activists and prorevolutionaries 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 Frere Duponts Species Being and Other Stories Hes Not Beyond Good and Evil Nina Power asks if theres a point to Paolo Virnos unhappy human Monstrous Plans Good Habitats Mark Crinson on suggestions that anticolonisation struggles were also about architecture The Political Immunity of Discourse Erik Empson on Roberto Espositos Bios Wishful Thinkers of the Calamity Bazaar John Barker says the time to attack the fantasy world of capitalist spindoctors is now The Who and Whom of Liberty Taking Peter Linebaugh asks how its possible to discuss liberty in the absence of equality Duck You Regeneration Sucker Neil Gray watches David Panos and Anja Kirschners Trail of the Spider and finds history repeating itself The Sleep of Realism Produces Monsters Andrew Fisher considers documentary maker Adam Curtis claims to realism and political neutrality Quarterly critical and cheap Mute is a concrete jumble of all thats still grunting in the interfinessing hyperbarrios of culture politics and technology 20 As capitalism yawns towards apocalypse we match it issue by issue with a sustained critique of everything existing from eco prolebashing and shanty chic to academic autonanist marxistry