Mute Vol. 3 #4 - Slave to the Algorithm

Manifesto for a Theory of the ‘New Aesthetic’ – An irreverent guided tour of the ‘New Aesthetic’ by Curt Cloninger, The Missing Factory – John Roberts considers why work remains absent from film and culture more generally, Barbara Says – Industry Does it Faster – Roman Vasseur reviews the Artist Placement Group’s historic brokerage of bureaucracy and art, The Ghosts of Participation Past – Josephine Berry Slater reviews Claire Bishop’s recent book, Artificial Hells, Listener As Operator 3 – Howard Slater finds in jazz a response to the experience of slavery which preserves and propels a collective being, Untitled #M001 – #M011 2,325,600 combinations of 16 grays an artist’s project by John Houck, Gaming the Plumbing – Alberto Toscano inspects the gap between financial fantasies and the muddy realities of the ‘robot phase transition’, Destructive Destruction? – How is high frequency trading’s drive to efficiency affecting market dynamics as a whole?
Ask Inigo Wilkinson and Bogan Dragos, Fellowship of the Wrong – A code-splitting tale of lightspeed trading run by Benedict Seymour, with illustrations by Rona Tunnadine, The Guest – A short story by Mira Mattar exploring the annihilating power of luxury, The Garden of Earthly Delights – Matthew Fuller wades through the Olympic muck to visit The Crystal World, At the Limit: Self-Organisation in Greece – Anna O’Lory of Blaumachen identifies some limits to current struggles in Greece, Whose Rebel City? – Neil Gray discusses David Harvey’s Rebel Cities from the perspective of the autonomous urban struggles of ’70s Italy