MUTE VOL 2 #5 - Climate Change Issue
M | U | T | E | __ rread it! __ 10 May 2007_ MUTE VOL 2 #5 SPRING/SUMMER ISSUE MAY '07 It's Not Easy Being Green - The Climate Change Issue is out now online and in print: http://www.metamute.org/en/Mute-Vol-2-5-Its-Not-Easy-Being-Green-The-Climate-Change-Issue This issue of Mute seeks to defuse the ideological bomb of climate change, expose the plundering and non-reproduction of global resources as a problem of capital not mankind per se, and investigate the ends to which the spectre of eco-catastrophe is being used Articles include: * Capital Climes by Will Barnes Liberal critics assume that climate change is a ?man-made? process, not a natural phenomenon. Against this view, Will Barnes argues that global warming does indeed have an inhuman agent behind it ? not nature but capital http://www.metamute.org/en/Capital-Climes * Act Macro: Technological Alternatives to Green Austerity By James Woudhuysen The emerging capitalist War On Global Warming concentrates on adapting technology and behaviour ? particularly other nation-states? ? to mitigate environmental damage. Transformative technological and social innovation is better than meddling micro-action, argues James Woudhuysen http://www.metamute.org/en/Act-Macro-Technological-Alternatives-to-Green-Austerity * Climate Change CO2lonialism By Tim Forsyth and Zoe Young In their tango with grassroots green activists, inter-governmental policy makers are taking the lead. Tim Forsyth and Zoe Young analyse the ?new green order? and the carbon offset colonialism that accompanies it http://www.metamute.org/en/Climate-Change-CO2lonialism * Promised Lands By Kate Rich It?s not just the founders of hippy communes or artists like Amy Balkin who are looking for ?a breathing space from the State? in which to experiment with freedom and free-time. Big IT companies like Google apparently share their ideals. With a commitment to ?me time?, the production of ?universal access?, and (energy) sovereignty, corporates are leveraging the dream of the commons http://www.metamute.org/en/Promised-Lands-Google-and-Morningstar * Apocalypse and/or Business as Usual? The Energy Debate After the 2004 US Presidential Elections By George Caffentzis Since 2004 the rhetoric of Bush?s republican party has turned curiously green, integrating climate change as a legitimation for neoliberal imperialism. At the same time the unintended consequence of America?s unsuccessful adventures has been to enrich an ?anti-neoliberal? class of oil rentiers in Africa, Latin America and Asia. George Caffentzis plots the changes in the US energy policy as it turns from eco-naysayer to ecowarrior http://www.metamute.org/en/Apocalypse-and-or-Business-as-Usual.-The-Energy-Debate-After-the-2004-US-Presidential-Elections * Heavy Opera By Anthony Iles John Jordan and James Marriott's operatic audio tour set in London?s Square Mile is intended to awaken city workers to the impact of financial systems on climate change. But not only does And While London Burns misgauge how much the suits already know, its hysterical tone also harmonises too easily with the coming new eco-order. Review by Anthony Iles http://www.metamute.org/en/Heavy-Opera * BPerkeley Inc.? By Iain A. Boal As a lead in to Mute?s climate change special issue, Iain Boal reports on BP?s recent biofuel deal with University of California, Berkeley. In the name of a planetary emergency, the oil behemoth has both managed to greenwash biotech research and further entrench campus capitalism http://www.metamute.org/en/BPerkeley-Inc * Also in this issue... Zombie Nation By Paul Helliwell As the scarcity essential to the cultural commodity is undermined by digital abundance and social networking, social relations and the unique ?live? performance are all that's left to sell. Mass market music increasingly resembles relational art with its dream of waking the ?zombies? of consumer culture, but are the citizens of Web 2.0 society born again or undead? Paul Helliwell shuffles through the mall... http://www.metamute.org/en/Zombie-Nation * Expropriate, Accumulate, Financialise By Chris Wright and Samantha Alvarez David Harvey is an influential academic theorist of the spatial, cultural and economic forms of neoliberal capitalism. Chris Wright and Samantha Alvarez contrast his analysis with that of Michael Hudson, whose Super Imperialism exposed the fiscal foundations of neoliberalism some 30 years earlier http://www.metamute.org/en/Expropriate-accumulate-financialise * Further articles and reviews, already announced, are by Anthony Davies, Howard Slater and Peter Suchin * SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://www.metamute.org/taxonomy/term/3480 FOR A LIST OF STOCKISTS: http://www.metamute.org/node/254 # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics o
Mute Magazine - new publishing, networked economy
Mute Magazine - new publishing, networked economy + We've crossed oceans of time for you to find us. http://metamute.org/ Summary === For years, it has been Mute's dream to conduct its publishing on a more participatory platform. Starting with our mini-manifesto Ceci N'est Pas Un Magazine (Sept 2001), we plotted the project as it moved through various developmental stages and now, after years of planning and building, it is alive and kicking at brand new site Metamute.org. With the move to this new location, Mute has embraced the evolving culture of Open Publishing and finally made the web its home. Mute content is now made freely available as soon as it is published and users can post to the site in numerous newly created areas. Mute still retains a printed magazine (now quarterly), which is produced using print on demand (POD) technology and extends our core editorial activity through themed issues. We have also added a facility for users to make their own personalised collections of POD content, straight from the site. Another online facility, called the Agent Network, exists for distributing publications. Through this, users can sign up to distribute Mute in their own neighbourhoods and communities and receive a portion of the cover price in return. At Metamute.org, you can register, input details about sales outlets and events to build up the existing network, as well as manage your own activity by organising orders, deliveries and payments. Our hope is that this feature will help get the magazine to the full diversity of its audience and build a more sustainable economy for the organisation as a whole. On the back of this model, we also encourage users to get involved with editorial and promotion too. Mute continues to feature the critical writing it is known for, but by using the internet as a production base and home, it can explore the web's multimedial nature and better engage its audience. In this respect, other notable projects associated with our relaunch are a BitTorrent, the Public Library, and a series of online art commissions. Finally, keep in mind that what you are looking at is the BETA version of Metamute.org. This is currently being tested to gauge usability, design and architecture. This phase will be complete once beta users' feed back has been acted on. If you would like to be part of this process and would find a beta users' document helpful, you can view it here, http://www.metamute.org/en/beta Please come and join us - Mute http://metamute.org/ What's new? === **Membership** Metamute.org is a membership based site where you can log in to submit articles or upload media. There are a variety membership categories, reflecting levels of involvement and usage. These are: anonymous, authenticated, subscriber, agent and editor. **Free to share magazine content** Simultaneous to its publication in print, Mute will be making its magazine content freely available online for non-commercial use, reprinting and translation. **OpenPublishing** The following areas of the site are open for members' contributions: News & Analysis, Public Library (P2P file sharing service), Calendar, Forums & lists. **POD and User POD [*]** Print on demand is a high quality, low cost form of digital book printing, through which one or 1000s of copies can be printed in several locations throughout the world. Mute has opted for this technology for reasons of cost, but also so we can be more responsive to developments on our website. Outside of our regular magazine run, we will be producing a variety of other POD imprints. As a user, you can compile content from across the site articles, images, text from other websites that have been posted in the News section, etc. This (your 'POD' book) can then be printed and delivered at low cost, or just printed off on your home computer. The digital print process also means you can leave a PDF of your book online to share with others, in our POD Park. **Public Library (PL)** Media based works can be uploaded/ downloaded by any user at our P2P BitTorrent, the Public Library. At the PL, you can also share your opinions on the files available and we encourage users to regard this reviewing as integral to the uploading and downloading of their media warez. **Content filtering [*]** The Mute site is vast and will become even more so. To make its content more accessible, we have added a system of classification which helps you sort the content of the site. We feel strongly that the new Mute should be about your view of things as much as ours; to make this happen we invite you to expand on the subjects we've included in our category listings. Help guides will soon be available on how to do this, and we will also keep our own classifications constantly under review (the present listing is definitely just a beginning!). **Shop** We have opened up our shop to allow users to sell their cultural products
art, autonomy and automata
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