Mute: Mute Vol. 3 #4 - Slave to the Algorithm (Paperback)

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