M | U | T | E | __ rrrrrread it! ________________________________________________18 August 2011_
What the RFID is That? By Brian Ashton In the second contribution to a group of articles on logistics, workplace surveillance and national security, Brian Ashton zooms in on the microscopic technologies surveilling and shaping working lives http://linkme2.net/q6 * Salvagepunk in the Birthgrave - Video documentation By Evan Calder Williams and China Miéville Is salvagepunk sci-fi with left politics? Laptops with brass trimmings? Anything that looks kind of like Mad Max? At a recent event in London China Miéville and Evan Calder Williams discussed the term, its long pasts, its cursed present, and its uncertain future. Camera by Hamish Heartnell. Sound by Rachel Baker and Hamish Heartnell http://linkme2.net/q8 * ///FROM NEWS & ANALYSIS/// * Detest and Survive: self-deregulation and asset reallocation in England, August 2011 By Clinical Wasteman The second of two articles by Clinical Wastemen surveying the landscape of social struggles in austerity UK 2011. In this case a chronology of and argument against 'interpretation' of the riots which spread across the UK this August. The earlier text appears here: http://linkme2.net/q5 http://linkme2.net/q4 * Unlimited Liability or Nothing to Lose? By Clinical Wasteman The first of two articles by Clinical Wastemen surveying the landscape of social struggles in austerity UK 2011. The second article, on the UK riots, appears here: http://linkme2.net/q4 http://linkme2.net/q5 * An Open Letter to Those Who Condemn Looting (In Two Parts) By Evan Calder Williams Co-publishing this spirited excoriation of backlash in all its forms http://linkme2.net/q7 * -- Anthony Iles Acting Editor Mute Publishing 46 Lexington Street London W1F 0LP W: http://www.metamute.org W: http://www.openmute.org E: anth...@metamute.org *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Don't miss our... Critical history of global networked culture: PROUD TO BE FLESH: http://www.metamute.org/ptbf Reader on political art in creative cities: NO ROOM TO MOVE: http://www.metamute.org/nrtm Whole nine yards: MUTE ARCHIVE, 1994-2008: http://www.metamute.org/archive _______________________________________________ Mute-social mailing list mute-soc...@lists.metamute.org http://lists.metamute.org/mailman/listinfo/mute-social _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
