Mute magazine (www.metamute.org) provides an imaginative experimental and exacting response to the challenges and contours of technologically-driven late capitalism. Drawing on a wide field of writers theorists artists technologists poets and political activists the magazine offers an original and uncompromising analysis of our contemporary landscape. The ways in which the personal can be grasped as political is an exponentially productive legacy of second wave feminism. This idea connects the arguments made by many of the writers in this issue.