Editors: Josephine Berry Slater and Pauline van Mourik Broekman with Michael Corris, Anthony Iles, Benedict Seymour and Simon Worthington    .

Mute magazine was born, somewhere between art school anomie and the thrill of the WorldWideWeb's appearance, in 1994. Looking back, Mute’s most unchanging feature is its wilful eclecticism and ceaseless criticality. Five years in the making, Proud to Be Flesh brings together the best articles to grace the pages of Mute in a single compendium. Featuring seminal writing on the evolution ofWeb 2.0, the knowledge commons, new media art, the politics of globalisation, and the material and immaterial ramifications of the net, Proud to Be Flesh is a one-stop reference to the cultural politics of the digital revolution.Thematically contextualised, this is an ideal resource for research, teaching, students, and readers craving a sustained and persistent analysis of ‘culture and politics after the net’.

Chapter Titles:
1. Direct Democracy and its Demons:Web 1.0 to Web 2.0
2. Net Art to Conceptual Art and Back
3. I, Cyborg: Reinventing the Human
4. Of Commoners and Criminals
5. Organising Horizontally
6. Assuming the Position: Art and/Against Business
7. Under the Net – the City and the Camp
8. Reality Check: Class and Immaterial Labour
9. The Open Work