Mute Magazine : Real Life Training - v. 2, No. 16

In this issue of Mute we look at the systemic requirement to appear, to have an identity, to become intelligible - as an individual, a face, a body, a set of affects, a data-set within biopolitical capitalism.

This recurrent demand to appear is both extracted and seduced out of us by the apparatuses of state and spectacle, the system of property and images, the simultaneous need to harness labour and manage the unemployed.

In this issue we also look at the deeper shifts in capitalism which trigger the intensifying management of life; a crisis of abundance is brought on by industrial and technological developments converting the majority of the earth's inhabitants into a 'surplus' population to be managed and 'warehoused' in jails, workfare schemes or that open prison known as Web 2.0.

Features contributions from Stefan Szczelkun, Paul Helliwell, Sander, Benedict Seymour, CVA Group, John Cunningham, The Moyote Project, Neinsager and George Caffentzis.