Mute (magazine)

{{Short description|British culture and technology magazine}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Mute | logo = Mute logo 2011-.jpg | logo_size = 80px | image_file = Mute magazine - Issue 29 cover (2005).jpg | image_size = 100px | image_caption = Mute magazine - Issue 29 cover 2005-02, ISSN 1356-7748-29 | editor = | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = culture, technology, digital, politics | frequency = Quarterly | circulation = | publisher = Simon Worthington and Pauline van Mourik Broekman | founder = Simon Worthington and Pauline van Mourik Broekman | founded = {{Start date|1994}} | firstdate = {{Start date|1994|11|30|df=y}} | company = Mute Publishing | country = United Kingdom | based = London | language = English | website = {{official URL}} | issn = 1356-7748 | oclc = 1420978937 }} '''''Mute''''' is a British online magazine that covers a wide spectrum of subjects related to cyberculture, artistic practice, left-wing politics, urban regeneration, biopolitics, direct democracy, net art, the commons, horizontality and UK arts.<ref name="stallabrass">{{cite journal |first=Julian|last=Stallabrass | authorlink =Julian Stallabrass|title=Digital Partisans: Cultural Politics, Technology and the Web|journal=New Left Review|issue=74|year=2012|pages=125–39|accessdate=12 October 2012|url=http://newleftreview.org/II/74/julian-stallabrass-digital-partisans|issn=0028-6060}}</ref>

Founded in 1994 by art school graduates Simon Worthington and Pauline van Mourik Broekman, the magazine is an experimental hybrid of web and print formats,<ref>{{cite journal|title=Ceci n'est pas un magazine: The politics of hybrid media in ''Mute'' magazine|first=Nicholas|last=Thoburn|journal=New Media & Society|volume=14|issue=5|pages=815–31|year=2012|doi=10.1177/1461444811427532|s2cid=36237560|issn=1461-7315|url=https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/ceci-nest-pas-un-magazine-the-politics-of-hybrid-media-in-mute-magazine(b608aa8b-b9c8-4608-8db3-082588914bf7).html}}</ref> publishing articles weekly online, contributed by both staff and readers, and a biannual print compilation combining selections from current issues and other online content with specially commissioned and co-published projects.<ref name="stallabrass" /><ref name="aboutmute">{{cite web|url=http://www.metamute.org/about-us|title=About Us|work=Mute|accessdate=12 October 2012}}</ref> Contributors to ''Mute'' have included Heath Bunting, James Flint, Hari Kunzru, Anthony Davies and Simon Ford, Stewart Home, Kate Rich, Jamie King, Daniel Neofetou, Nils Norman, Simon Tyszko, and Peter Linebaugh. The magazine was supported by the Arts Council of England from 1999 to 2012.<ref name="aboutmute" /><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-04-04-newsitem-en.html|title=Mute magazine loses its funding|work=Eurozine News|date=4 April 2011|accessdate=12 October 2012}}</ref>

In 2009, the magazine produced an anthology, ''Proud to be Flesh: A Mute Magazine Anthology of Cultural Politics After the Net'' ({{ISBN|978-1-906496-28-9}}), published by Autonomedia.<ref name="stallabrass"/>

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==Further reading== {{refbegin}} * {{cite book |year=2009 |editor1-last=Berry Slater |editor1-first=Josephine |editor2-last=van Mourik Broekman |editor2-first=Pauline |title=Proud to be Flesh: A Mute Magazine Anthology of Cultural Politics after the Net |publisher=Mute Publishing |isbn=978-1-906496-28-9 }} {{refend}}

==External links== * {{Official website}}

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