[NetBehaviour] M | U | T | E | __ rrrrrread it! 3 May,07_

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M | U | T | E | __ rrrrrread it!

______________________________________________3 May
07_


OUT NOW ON METAMUTE.ORG:

The Dutch Are Weeping in Four Universal Pictorial
Languages At Least  

By Marina Vishmidt

The recent research project and series of exhibitions
After Neurath revisits the work of Otto Neurath,
renaissance man of the Vienna Circle who had attempted
to relate the puzzle of social change by
pictorialising knowledge. Marina Vishmidt assesses
Neurath's attempt to bridge the world between art and
non-art in the terms of current debate and draws a
materialist line under any positivistic expectations
of the exhibition as research 

http://www.metamute.org/en/The-Dutch-Are-Weeping-in-Four-Universal-Pictorial-Languages-At-Least

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The End of Copenhagen? 

By Stewart Home

The Situationists and the Creative Class are neck and
neck in the competition for most mythologised ‘avant
garde’. In riot-torn Copenhagen at the end of last
month the two converged. While the conference Expect
Anything Fear Nothing - Seminar on the Situationist
Movement in Scandinavia was laying to rest delusions
about the SI, partisans of the creative class seized
on the riots as a victory for the new creative
vanguardists. Stewart Home rattles some cage

http://www.metamute.org/en/End-of-Copenhagen

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The Circular Story of Black Arts Policy  

By Geoff Cox

Richard Hylton's recent book The Nature of the Beast:
Cultural Diversity and the Visual Arts Sector indicts
the multiple failures of state backed multiculturalism
through a fine-combed history of visual arts policy in
the UK. In this adaptation of a talk given at the
launch of the book, Geoff Cox reads off the charges

http://www.metamute.org/en/Foreclosing-The-Nature-of-the-Beast