Books published by Mute Publishing Ltd

This book documents the f irst life-cycle of the Post-MediaLab (2011-2014). Taking up Fèlix Guattari's challenge, the Lab aimedto combine social and media practices into collective assemblagesof enunciation in order to confront social monoformity. Here wedraw together some key essays, images and art projects by the Lab'sparticipants, as well as a close documentation of its associated events,talks, and exhibitions, to create a vivid portrayal of post-media practicetoday.With contributions by: Clemens Apprich, Josephine BerrySlater, Micha Cárdenas, Sean Dockray, Mina Emad, BogdanDragos & Inigo Wilkins, Fabien Giraud, Adnan Hadzi & JamesStevens, Martin Howse & Jonathan Kemp, irational.org,Anthony Iles, Oliver Lerone Schultz, Gordan Savi¿i¿, MoritzQueisner, Rózsa Zita FarkasPart of the PML Books series. A collaboration between Mute &the Post-Media Lab

This book is a psychoarchaeological reconstruction of an art collective, irational.org, who existed in the times of the internet. The material reconstituted here was derived, after irational.org's disappearance, from multiple requests for data from their archived art server. These requests, made by post, were submitted by the author, V.M., to an unidentified and unreliable Data Auditor, using a Secure Access Protocol. It is rumoured that access to the archive was securitised by irational.org because it contains highly sensitive, possibly incriminating, data. The psychoarchaeologist's reconstruction reveals a cultural organisation that satirised, resisted and internalised the libertarian yet bureaucratic tendencies of a surveillance society, and its obsession with data privacy, security and property. The trail runs cold as the group made its retreat into the woods from a world that was disintegrating.Part of the PML Books series. A collaboration between Mute & the Post-Media Lab

Felix Stalder's extended essay, Digital Solidarity, takes it's point of departure from the waves of new forms of networked political organisation which have met the onset of the global economic crisis of 2008. Following Karl Marx, Stalder lays out how in the current period there are emergent contradictions between applied innovation and technical progress and the economic institutions whch organise or restrain this progress. The contradictions between forces of production and relations of production are placed in a context in which we have left McLuhan's Gutenburg Galaxy behind for good and the struggles over where we will arrive are only just beginnning.A co-publication of Mute Books & the Post-Media Lab

Contains texts on the politics of precarious labour. Concerning labour history, part-time freelance, unpaid employment and house work. The erosion of the welfare state, globalisation social precariousness and protest against this condition.

Show Invisibles? Migration/Data/WorkMute vol 2 #7We are living through an intensification of citizens', and non-citizens', visibility to capital. Database convergence, states of emergency and points-based immigration systems destroy the legal and informational grey zones in which the poor shelter and organise. As black economies and shadow sectors are exposed to the light of networked information in the interests of population management, border enforcement, welfare clamp-downs and, above all, profit, what are the risks and advantages of visibility? What do (political and artistic) representation and rights have to offer the illegal and 'invisible'? Articles by: Damian Abbott, Camille Barbagallo & Nic Beuret, Leutha Blissett, Javier, Jaya Klara Brekke, Seemab Gul, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Elizabeth Povinelli, Benedict Seymour, C.L.-Stavrides, Jennifer Thatcher and UnterschreberArtwork by: Harrison, Lee Galpin and Benedict Seymour

A struggle is ensuing to produce and protect what is being called the Knowledge Commons in defiance of the latter day regime of enclosures around knowledge and informational goods. As with the pre-capitalist common lands on which the majority of people subsisted, the idea is that we can build a resource, a life source, of intellectual wealth to sustain people within informatic capitalism. But this endeavour is not without political, tactical and philosophical problems. In this first issue of the new format Mute, we foreground the antagonisms which the Knowledge Commons throw up. Texts by: Gregor Claude, Yves Degoyon, Martin Hardie, Benjamin Mako Hill, Jaromil, Yuwei Lin, Peter Linebaugh, Aymeric Mansoux, Agnese Trocchi, RampArt Hacklab, Palle Torsson, James Wallbank, Steve Wright, Simon Yuill and Soenke Zehle

Web 2.0's democratisation of media produces a wealth of new perspectives. Those formerly excluded from the public sphere have the chance to make their voices heard. But this wave of participation is as important for busines as it is for the newly included. Mute's Web 2.0 special uncovers the work in social networking and the centralisation of the means of sharing. Features texts by Giorgio Agostoni, Olga Goriunova, Dmytri Kleiner & Brian Wyrick and Angela Mitropoulos. With additional articles by Brian Ashton, John Barker, Paul Helliwell and Merijn Oudenampsen.