Presentation
Multitudes is a political and cultural magazine, both theoretical and activist, that deals with current issues in as concrete and general a way as possible. Crossing societies diagonally, the magazine strives, as Michel Foucault and Félix Guattari recommended, to "take politics in reverse", since this is where the subversive charge of social movements lies. These movements don't simply flee or resist a more powerful power. They build spaces for positive affirmation, and lay the foundations for future scenarios. Multitudes records and debates their proposals.
Absolute domination has never existed, and still doesn't. Everywhere, new ideas are being invented. Everywhere, ideas, gestures, words, groups and minorities are being invented, escaping from a mortifying mythology. To speak, write, relay words, music and images is to propose a common ground. It's this living option that has brought us together for the past twenty years, with over eighty issues already published.
As a transcultural magazine, Multitudes aspires to survey the signs of the nomadic culture of those without a fixed, univocal or sovereign identity, of the "métisses" of reason. It seeks to open up to uses and knowledges that alone are binding. Around its transnational, ecofeminist and transpartisan editorial board, it moves between languages and continents, between disciplines and indisciplines, through a generous practice of translation, in search of a renewed political vocabulary.
With its two dossiers (a "Major" and a "Minor"), its topical "Hot Topics", its untimely "Hors champ" and its "Icons" dossier inviting an artist to occupy the visual space of the issue, Multitudes takes on the worst that standard politics and culture can have: repetition, conventionality, the pretense of transparency. Curious and fond of queer oddities, she practices contraband gold-panning, in the sands carried by the rivers of multitudes. It does not claim to be a substitute for any movement, or for a movement of movements, but offers a place where the alchemy of transformation can be worked out.
Contact
Multitudes c/o Mixages 112, rue de Brancion 75015 Paris Editorial address: multitudes@samizdat.net Updated on 15/09/2022