Lead article
We are the University – An invitation to autonomous education
TweetShare The university is under pressure to adapt. Existing degrees and departments are considered less relevant, less valuable, in a competitive economy. At the same time the role of the university is considered greater than ever as innovation, research and technology are presented as the engines of economic growth. We can see this ‘adaptation’ happening [...]
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Things are speeding up once more. Sleepy August is most definitely over. September is always my month of renewal, my new year so to speak. This month we have a few columns that are extremely interesting. I’m particularly referring to the interviews conducted with three social centres in Spain, the article on autonomous education and the video lecture by the linguist, Daniel Everett. I’m delighted that more people are sending in short stories and I hope we can continue to publish new work. There are a few new contributors this month and a number who will be publishing their articles in the October issue. So all is good. We’re developing all the time, our readership is growing steadily and our base is widening al the time. So hope you enjoy this issue and if you’d like to contribute you can get me through our contact page
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Featured articles
Managing Meta Physical Material
Unravelling the speaking out of the story has confounded her. And while trying to be in the place of systematic ...
Album reviews; Edith Piaf, Freebass, Eleanor McEvoy
EDITH PIAF: At Carnegie Hall 1957 ( Future Noise ) Here is a cd for fans of Edith Piaf, the legend ...
Rethinking the politics of Social Centres
Over the next three issues of themutation.com we will be presenting interviews with activists from three social centres from the Barcelona ...
Roger Pollam
The atmosphere suited his mood, sombre. He sat alone sipping his unsweetened black coffee, staring out in to the desolate ...
Making Life Into Film Into Life
So August is nearly over, It slid by before one realises its here, ..some lazy, hazy days, some hectic breakneck ...
A lecture by Linguist Daniel Everett
Linguist and anthropologist Daniel Everett first visited the Brazilian jungle in early 1970s as a Christian missionary. After more than ...
Is This It
It was about 5 months after the towers had come down. 2002. The petite waitress – the one with the ...
An Interview with the band, The Saw Doctors
What are your views on cultural change? Enjoy it, keep up, make the most of it; it's bound to happen. Politics and ...
Things I keep going back to
5 Things Hannah Rose – Farrington keeps going back to TweetShare Eggs Benedict A dish that consists of an English muffin, cut in half, topped with bacon, poached eggs and hollandaise sauce. I believe it to be an American dish, although there are arguments from the French that they created it. However, France is a country that has a baguette with no butter on its [...]
Audio Stories from The Moth
Nathaniel Eaton: Surviving My Survivor audition A hopeful star attracts more publicity than acting work. The Moth features people telling true, engaging, funny, touching and eye-opening stories from their lives. Hailed as “New York’s hottest and hippest literary ticket” by the Wall Street Journal, The Moth has been producing sold-out storytelling shows for over ten years. Stories are told without notes [...]
Books of the month
Aesthetics, maps of the imagination and the art object Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 by LR Lippard This work documents the network of ideas that has been labelled conceptual art. Including texts by and taped discussions among and with the artists involved, the book is arranged as an annotated chronology. You are Here: Personal Geographies and Other [...]
Band of the month
The Grunts “Its great to get this finally done and out there’ says front man Liam ‘we have so many new tunes demoed just waiting to record the next album”. “It’s an exciting time and we are looking forward to the tour in September”. After 5 years indie band The Grunts from Cork have finally finished their [...]
Recipes from our Kitchen
A comforting Butter Bean Soup Have you ever wondered what the famous cooks of the world eat at home? Do they really spend hours every day preparing food on the lines of their recipes or, like you and me, do they sometimes snuggle down happily to a boiled egg and toast? Now, let us be honest. I am an unrepentant [...]
Life in a petri dish
24 things to do when starting out as a live band As someone who has been running a small weekly music club (max capacity 100) for the past four years I thought i’d list some tips for young bands who are looking for gigs and starting off on the circuit. It’s an incredibly hard job getting started and even harder to sustain, taking a lot of [...]
Mutantspace newsletter
September in mutantspace.ie This month we’re concentrating on the Trash Culture Revue. We’ve changed the dates and will now be hosting it from Thursday 4th – Saturday 6th November in Cork. I really want to be able to tour this revue, want to make it happen. As this revue process has been moving on it has become clear [...]
Poetry now
A new collection of poetry from Alan Maguire Desperado Johnny picks the dead flies from his teeth with a broken matchstick He plays the drums at the weekend and his girlfriend just proposed He then thinks to himself “oh god, I think she’s pregnant” But Johnny doesn’t believe in Jesus Do Not Feed The Bears Now please remember, to not to feed [...]
Website of the month
Lofilounge.org The mission of LOFI (The League of Independents) is to keep independent art & cinema alive within the community (the local community of New York City as well as the global community of independent artists). They recognise that in the 21st Century, technology has empowered people in an unprecedented way to make new kinds of film [...]
