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I thought readers on this list might be interested to see the debate around relational aesthetics and Claire Bishop's book continuing in this review on metamute. Josie M | U | T | E | __ rrrrrread it! ______________________________________________11 July 07 _ OUT NOW ON METAMUTE.ORG: Exodus By Paul Helliwell In her recent anthology Participation, Claire Bishop targets the suspect utopianism of relational aesthetics – a new model public art for the age of consensus. But, writes Paul Helliwell, her alternative reading of participation, made across a set of historical texts, and concerned to preserve the autonomy of art may have blocked itself with her deployment of the fashionable Jacques Rancière * http://www.metamute.org/en/exodus * Mute Vol 2 #6 Call for Artwork Contributions By Mute Editorial Mute Vol.2 #6 is due to come out in August 2007 and will feature a group of articles investigating the implications of a global economy sustained by unprecedented levels of debt, and the crisis of value production that underlies it. This has produced a (constantly deferred, but ever deepening) crisis whose hallmarks are the widespread looting of resources and non-reproduction of infrastructures and workers, the inflation of asset bubbles, high levels of liquidity and personal debt. We are making this call for artwork and visual contributions to the theme. Artworks submitted will be hosted on the metamute.org site and those selected for inclusion in the printed magazine will win a year's free subscription to Mute. The issue will feature submissions from Loren Goldner on dollar imperialism; Barque Press on the poetry of money; the Committee for Radical Diplomacy on student debt; Brett Neilson on the contemporary ontology of debt; Jeff Strahl on waiting for the end of the world and more... Please check http://www.metamute.org/content/articles and http://www.metamute.org/content/news-and-analysis for freshly uploaded content on this theme. Please submit your artwork in .zip .pdf .jpeg .png .mp3 .ogg or .mp4 to [log in to unmask] (with the subject header 'artwork' or register at metamute.org and upload image files to the following gallery: Debt and Crisis Issue http://www.metamute.org/en/image/tid/2286 Mute produces an issue every three months that collects a group of articles around a theme, as well as including unthemed recently published articles from the Mute website. From now on, we will be announcing each upcoming theme with a call for contributions. OR SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://www.metamute.org/taxonomy/term/3480 FOR A LIST OF STOCKISTS: http://www.metamute.org/node/254