Mute Vol2 #4
Web 2.0 – Man's best friendster?

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Mute Vol2 #3
Naked Cities – Struggle in the Global Slums

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Since the advent of multiculturalism in the 1970s, the redefinition of race in cultural terms has gone hand in hand with an official discourse of respect for cultural difference and diversity. Today, in the wake of 9/11, the rhetoric of tolerance is visibly breaking down. As state policy shifts from the celebration of difference to an anxious call for assimilation, the racial other (whether citizen or immigrant) is under renewed pressure to integrate herself into society.

A struggle is ensuing to produce and protect what is being called the Knowledge Commons in defiance of the latter day regime of enclosures around knowledge and informational goods.

This Reader collects together texts on Precariousness that first appeared in Mute magazine issues 29 (January 2005) and 28 (August 2004) with writing on the politics of precarity from a number of other sources.