Multitudes 2011/2 No 45
Journal article

The People in Swarm

Pages 74 to 80

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  • BISSON, Frédéric,
2011. The People in Swarm. Multitudes, 2011/2 No 45, p.74-80. DOI : 10.3917/mult.045.0074. URL : https://shs.cairn.info/journal-multitudes-2011-2-page-74?lang=en.
  • Bisson, Frédéric.
« The People in Swarm ». Multitudes, 2011/2 No 45, 2011. p.74-80. CAIRN.INFO, shs.cairn.info/journal-multitudes-2011-2-page-74?lang=en.
  • Bisson, F.
(2011). The People in Swarm. Multitudes, No 45(2), 74-80. https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.045.0074.

https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.045.0074

Abstract
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Cite this article

  • Bisson, F.
(2011). The People in Swarm. Multitudes, No 45(2), 74-80. https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.045.0074.
  • Bisson, Frédéric.
« The People in Swarm ». Multitudes, 2011/2 No 45, 2011. p.74-80. CAIRN.INFO, shs.cairn.info/journal-multitudes-2011-2-page-74?lang=en.
  • BISSON, Frédéric,
2011. The People in Swarm. Multitudes, 2011/2 No 45, p.74-80. DOI : 10.3917/mult.045.0074. URL : https://shs.cairn.info/journal-multitudes-2011-2-page-74?lang=en.

https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.045.0074

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Swarms provide a new image for the people. The swarm-vocabulary is not homogeneous: it encodes simultaneously machines of power and the practices which resist against them, in a tactical ambivalence which blurs all borders. A swarm-collective is without subject: it cannot say “we”. But the people in swarm is all the more potent when it does not confront power, but remains imperceptible. Swarms allow for the common to flow through dispersion and within the very solitude of its members.

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https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.045.0074

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