Struggle as a Second Language

By Becky and Rebecca

While last summer's strike at Tower Hamlets College is often portrayed as a victory by unions, two of its key organisers, Becky and Rebecca, remain critical, and place ESOL at the butt end of the government's chauvinist austerity

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Grim Down South: Managing (in) London South Bank University

By Raoul Paled

While education budgets are cut and university leaders have 'visions' for keeping competitive, Raoul Paled reports from Britain's 'worst performing' university, London South Bank, on their muted response to the credit crunch

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The Future Isn’t What it Used to Be

By M. Beatrice Fazi

Tackling the conundrum of the future's relationship to the present through the prism of digital culture, this year's Transmediale festival strayed into some chaotic philosophical territory.

We Don’t Need No Education? The Case of the London Met

By Mute

In the wake of a cash crisis and resulting round of savage job cuts, London Metropolitan University has been left reeling, but still standing.

An End Without End: Catastrophe Cinema in the Age of Crisis

By Evan Calder Williams

Dusting off the tedium and ash deposited by Hollywood's recent spate of catastrophe movies, Evan Calder Williams takes aim at their world-affirming pessimism and calls for some real apocalypse

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Hopenhagen against Hope

By Ilya Lipkin

Amidst the general panic and its commodification, Ilya Lipkin travelled to the Copenhagen Summit to witness capitalism's first last chance at preserving a climate conducive to its growth

Situating COP15: Capitalist Logic and Subjectivity

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Crisis at the ICA: Ekow Eshun’s Experiment in Deinstitutionalisation

By JJ Charlesworth

Amidst a general acceptance of the cash crisis afflicting the ICA as an accident of recession, and a headlong rush into ‘hairshirt' institutional self-critique as a way to deflect real scrutiny, JJ Charlesworth uncovers a catalogue of avoidable mistakes and the free-market, lifestyle thinking behind them

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Apocalypse, Tendency, Crisis

By Benjamin Noys

Crises tend to generate apocalyptic dreams and nightmares.

Jack’s Back! In the Movies at Last!

By Peter Linebaugh

Peter Linebaugh, author of The London Hanged, was recently challenged by film-makers Anja Kirschner and David Panos over his ‘romanticised' account of the development of class consciousness in the first phase of finance ca

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Working on a Decaying Dream

By Pil and Galia Kollectiv

In this month's Mute Music Column, Pil and Galia Kollectiv look at Bruce Springsteen in the context of class disintegration and place him firmly in the decadent tradition of Balzac and Huysmans - A'Rebours to Run?

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