Mute Magazine
Orientalism Inverted: The Rise of 'Hindu Nation'
Is Indianness just a German ideology? In the first of a two-part analysis of neoliberalism in the sub-continent, Neil Gray traces the history of Hindu cultural nationalism, from a colonialist mystique of pure spirituality to today's fascist pogroms and economic polarisation
THE ASSAULT ON CULTURE: A Mute Magazine talk on privatisation and critical artistic practice
3-5pm, Sunday 3 August 2008. Upstairs at Publish And Be Damned self-publishing fair, Rochelle School, Arnold Circus, London E2. Free, no booking required.
Does private-public funding and management of culture mark the death of institutional and critical autonomy? And is direct censorship an anomaly, the most visible form of a wider constriction of cultural freedom, or the shape of cultural policy to come?
Analysis Without Analysis
Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody is reputed to be the best book ever written on Web 2.0. By why the strange silence on questions of copyright, privacy and ownership?
THE ASSAULT ON CULTURE: A Mute Magazine talk on privatisation and critical artistic practice
THE ASSAULT ON CULTURE: A Mute Magazine talk on privatisation and critical artistic practice
Does private-public funding and management of culture mark the death of institutional and critical autonomy? And is direct censorship an anomaly, the most visible form of a wider constriction of cultural freedom, or the shape of cultural policy to come?
Mute has invited a range of practitioners along to discuss the perils and opportunities for critical cultural activity in neoliberalising institutions:
One World, One Lie: Tibet, the Olympics and Democracy
The fate of Tibet and its unelected superstar figurehead has captured the attention of western liberals, not to mention the US government. But the real fascination of Tibet is not its exoticism but its similarity to the rest of an undemocratic global system, argues Paula Cerni
