----- Original Message ----- From: FRANCO BARCHIESI <029FRB at muse.wits.ac.za> To: <aut-op-sy at jefferson.village.virginia.edu> Sent: Sunday, December 12, 1999 7:57 AM Subject: AUT: NEW JOURNAL - Multitudes
> MULTITUDES
> A new periodical by March 3, 2000
>
> 'Multitudes' will be a French language quarterly hard-copy (paper)
> periodical, with issues coming out in October, December, March, and
> May. It will be published and distributed by Exils, Paris (France).
> 'Multitudes' will also maintain an electronic mailing list, and a
> web-site: Multitudes On Line.
>
> 'Multitudes' is a cultural and political review. 'Multitudes' might
> take as its own the formula Michel Foucault used to characterise his
> own endeavours:
>
> "I am trying (...) while avoiding any abstract and limiting
> totalisation, to open up to problems that are as concrete and general
> as is possible. Problems that backtrack politics, criss-cross
> societies, and are at the same time constituent of our history and
> constructed by it".
>
> Backtracking politics: there lies the true subversion of
> contemporary social movements. It is what 'Multitudes' aims at
> analysing, as theoretical practice, as ontology, and as materialism
> within though. Flight, desertion, exodus, and resistance are not
> abstract facts stemming from eternally negative critical thought, but
> are constituent of a space of positive affirmation. The (true)
> alternative is the building power of what transforms thought into
> action: in the field of culture, in that of theory, and in politics.
>
> 'Multitudes' is born out of the desire to reconstitute a community
> of thought that existed with the review 'Futur Anterieur'. 'Futur
> Anterieur' was a breath of fresh air within what Felix Guattari had
> dubbed the 'winter years'. But the past preterite is also the time of
> bygone virtuality, and the present time, to us, seems to carry a much
> more joyful and subversive load than nostalgia ever could.
>
> In an allegedly disillusioned world, where politics, management and
> spectacle form an uncanny mix, we bet on making a periodical that
> will be post-communist, post-socialist, and post-pessimist. A
> periodical that will be simply Left. Not second wave social-democratic
> left, nor that national-republican left whose embrace of sovereignty
> makes it a bed-fellow of the reactionary right. And we are not at the
> 'left of the left' either, which never ventures beyond a perpetual
> critique of domination in all its forms. To the obligation of revolt
> inspired by resentment, we far prefer hailing revolts, manifold
> manifestations. Absolute domination never was a real occurence, and it
> has not happened yet either. Everywhere there are ideas, actions,
> texts, groups, and tribes cropping up, defeating the deathly myth of
> domination's absoluteness. Ours is this choice for purposeful living.
>
> In its fifth first issues, 'Multitudes' will discuss the following
> major topics:
>
> 1. Bio-politics and the problem of Power
> 2. New standards to measure Wealth, towards a new political economy
> 3. Europe and the Empire
> 4. The debate on contemporary Art
> 5. Syncretism of reason and the critique of universalism.
>
> 'Multitudes', Issue 1. Bio-politics and the Problem of Power.
>
> This issue will deal with the relations between the various
> transformation of the forms of practising and legitimating power, and
> the production and reproduction of life under all its possible aspects
> (eg. patenting of the (human) genome, life sciences, i.e. genetic
> manipulations and bio-technology). We have here a strategic turn in
> capitalism and in the power system, but this is also a major
> transformation, whose consequence is to (re)define power in terms of
> governing life itself, causing a crisis within the parameters that
> delimits power since the 17th century, the theory and the practice of
> sovereignty, the political contract, and what demarcates power, its
> domain and territory. This issue also aims at opening up a new
> project: to reverse the notion of bio-politics in order to make it
> operative in the realm of political subjectivisation. Contemporary
> political struggles (as those of december 1995 in France, the movement
> of people without (regular) employment, some campaigns against AIDS,
> etc.) force us to reconsider the way we approach the basis of action
> in bio-politics.
>
> Dossier prepared by Bruno Karsenti, Maurizio Lazzarato, Eric Alliez
> and Saverio Ansaldi
>
> ======================================================================
> PLUS:
>
> 'Internet, New Social Co-operation and Militancy' (dossier prepared by
> Aris Papatheodorou, Laurent Moineau, Jerome Gleizes and Jean-Louis
> Weissberg)
>
> ======================================================================
>
> 'Multitudes', Issue 2. New Standards to Measure Wealth, Towards a New
> Political Economy
>
> The main axis of bio-politics leads us straight into this second
> problem which will be the backbone of the second issue of
> 'Multitudes': questionning the political economy as we know it, the
> 'episteme' upon which it was built at the close of the 17th century,
> with the industrial revolution and the end of slavery within the
> world economy of the time. What becomes of value in an information
> economy, driven by intangible forms of labor, and what is the future
> of a welfare system that is essential and yet in profound crisis?
>
> Dossier prepared by Antonella Corsani, Christian Marazzi, Jerome
> Gleizes, Laurent Guilloteau, Yann Moulier Boutang and Giuseppe Cocco
>
> ======================================================================
> PLUS:
>
> 'World Cities and the Metamorphosis in Urban Management' (dossier
> prepared by Thierry Baudouin, Michele Collin , Anne Querrien, Arnoldo
> Rivkin)
>
> ======================================================================
>
> 'Multitudes', Issue 3. Europe and the Empire.
>
> Whereas globalisation overlaps to a large extent with the domination
> of the US super-power in the field of patenting life, defining human
> capital and services, it is nonetheless clear that in order to think
> about the Empire, it has become necessary to go beyond the
> conceptual apparatus of anti-imperialism. In order to reflect about
> federalism, a painful absence in the mainstream politics of Europe of
> '92, it is no longer sufficient to analyse the crisis of the elites.
> It has also become necessary to be on the look-out for its
> manifestations at the basis.
>
> Dossier prepared by Antonio Negri, Michael Hardt and Yann Moulier
> Boutang
>
> ======================================================================
> PLUS:
>
> 'Cinemas, Power and Counter-power of the Image' (dossier prepared by
> Thierry Pillon and Christophe d'Hallivill)
>
> ======================================================================
>
> 'Multitudes', Issue 4. The Debate on Contemporary Art.
>
> What is happening to contemporary art today? What are the issues and
> the potentials of contemporary art that are unleashing such fierce
> desires of revenge and the dazzling publicity that was given to this
> 'querelle'? What has the notion of 'avant-garde' become today? What
> is valuable in this 'contemporary art' that can indifferently be
> associated to both the 'terrorist register of modernity' or to the
> post-modern kingdom of the 'commodity'? What happened, finally, to
> art today? And what about practices of engagement by artists and
> collectives?
>
> Dossier prepared by Eric Alliez and Jean-Philippe Antoine
>
> ======================================================================
> PLUS:
>
> 'Patenting the Living' (Dossier prepared by Pierre Egea, Toni Negri
> and Patrice Riemens)
>
> ======================================================================
>
> 'Multitudes', Issue 5. Syncretism of Reason and the Critique of
> Universalism.
>
> The crisis of Republicanism in France, which is also a crisis of
> abstract universalism, is fought out around extremely concrete
> issues, such as gender equality, positive discrimination, dress
> codes - eg against 'islamic scarves' - in public schools, pitting
> against each others the proponents of juridic universalism and
> communitarians who are quickly accused of representing the
> fundamentalism of difference. Yet it is beyond question that in all
> Western democracies, which have become mixed societies in reality if
> not in statute, the intertwining of minority agendas engenders
> different becoming-subjects than those prescribed by the Declaration
> of Human Rights. The minority subject discovers, whether it is
> through the experience of exclusion, or through taking part in
> affirmative - rather than identitary - grouping: (a) that he is
> instrumental through (his/her) specificity in creating a space that
> is outside the norm; (b) that he has become the source of the
> constitution of the universal becoming of the norm as a frontier,
> benchmark, beacon; (c) that it is only through the experience of this
> minority-becoming that (the) universal (value(s)) can exist for the
> other.
>
> Dossier prepared by Emmanuelle Cosse, Germinal Pinalie, Yann Moulier-
> Boutang, Anne Querrien, Charles Wolfe, Gisele Donnard and Alisa Del
> Re'
>
> ======================================================================
> PLUS:
>
> 'Alice in Development-Land. Whither the Economy of Development?'
> (Dossier prepared by Giuseppe Cocco, Franco Barchiesi and Carlo
> Vercellone)
>
> ======================================================================
>
> The hardcopy edition of 'Multitudes' will have six regular features
> spread over 200 pages: 'En tete' (Headline) will give an
> explanatory overview of each issue's content. 'Inserts' is a 20-
> pages space devoted to the European/ international editors of the
> review. 'Majeure' (Major) will handle one specific topic in one or
> more detailled articles, so as to attain critical mass. 'Icone' will
> start with the 4-colors cover-pages, and go on for another 30 or so,
> where artists can express themselves as they wish, with texts and
> graphics, the latter however limited to black-and-white. 'Hors
> champ' (off-range) will welcome texts and debates which break with
> the tradition of seriousness in social sciences writings. 'Mineure'
> (Minor) will discuss, over ca. 30 pages, another specific theme
> with shorter texts (10 pp max.), and this will be in an entirely
> different field than what is treated in 'Majeure'. 'Liens' (links)
> finally, will contain brief descriptive articles, it will point to
> items in the on-line edition of 'Multitudes', and will also cary a few
> book-reviews.
>
> Table of content of the upcoming issue (provisional):
>
> Issue # 1.
>
> 1. Cover - Gerard Fromanger (painter)
> 2. Detailled list of contents for #1, summary for #2 &3.
> 3. Intro: presentation of the new review 'Multitudes'
> 4. 'Inserts': Letter from Seattle and Brasil by Beppe Caccia
> 5. 'Majeure': Bio-politics
> Outline of the topic: Presentation by Bruno Karsenti
> (i) Michael Hardt and Toni Negri: 'The Bio-political Production' (-
> System)', based on chapter 12 of their book 'Empire', to be published
> at Cambridge (Mass), Harvard University Press, 2000;
> (ii) Muriel Combes and Bernard Aspe on two recent books by Giorgio
> Agamben:'Homo Sacer' and 'Ce qui Reste d'Auschwitz' (What Remains
> After Auschwitz);
> (iii) Maurizio Lazzarato on bio-politics;
> (iv) Paolo Napoli 'Bio-politics and bio-ethics';
> (v) Interview with Peter Sloterdijk by Eric Alliez;
> (vi) Questions on the issues of bio-politics asked to Jacques
> Ranciere, Bruno Latour, Toni Negri, Isabelle Stengers, Michele Tort,
> Matthieu Potte Bonneville and Daniel Defert
> 6. 'Icone':
> (i) Contribution by Gerard Fromanger
> (ii) 'The Austrian Actionnism' by Hubert Klocker, and interwiew with
> Otto Moehl by Jacques Donguy
> 7. 'Hors-champ': Alain Badiou, 'Multiples, multiplicities'
> 8. 'Mineure': Electronic/Internet Culture
> (i) Laurent Moineau and Aris Papatheordorou: 'Internet and Co-
> operation';
> (ii) Interview with Richard Stallman and Steve Wright;
> (iii) Jerome Gleizes on free software and Open Source;
> (iv) Fabien Farjon on Internet and militant users
> 9. 'Liens': Yann Moulier Boutang: 'L'histoire bousculee' (A shaked-
> up history), a joint review of Theodore Allen's 'The Invention of
> the White Race' (Verso 1994, I and 1997, II), and Ghassan Hage's
> 'The White Nation' (Pluto, 1998).
>
> M U L T I T U D E
>
> Editor (Exils): Philippe Thureau d'Angin
> Editor in chief: Yann Moulier Boutang
>
> Editorial Board of the review (Paris):
> Eric Alliez,
> Saverio Ansaldi,
> Jean-Philippe Antoine,
> Thierry Baudouin,
> Maria Bianchini,
> Laurent Bove,
> Barbara Cassin,
> Jerome Ceccaldi,
> Michele Collin,
> Antonella Corsani,
> Emmanuelle Cosse,
> Christophe Degoutin,
> Gisele Donnard,
> Alisa Del Re',
> Pierre Egea,
> Jerome Gleizes,
> Laurent Guilloteau,
> Christophe d'Hallivillee,
> Pascal Jollivet,
> Bruno Karsenti,
> Sandra Laugier,
> Maurizio Lazzarato,
> Francois Matheron,
> Laurent Moineau,
> Yann Moulier Boutang,
> Aris Papatheodorou,
> Thierry Pillon,
> Germinal Pinalie,
> Emmanuel Ponsard,
> Anne Querrien,
> Arnoldo Rivkin,
> Pascal Severac,
> Emmanuel Videcoq,
> Jean-Louis Weissberg
>
> International Secretariat:
> Thomas Atzert (Frankfurt)
> Nanni Balestrini (Rome)
> Franco Barchiesi (Johannesburg)
> Pachutan Butzari (Berlin)
> Giuseppe Cocco (Rio de Janeiro)
> Ed Emery (Londres)
> Michael Hardt (New York)
> Yoshihiko Ichida (Osaka)
> Christian Marazzi (Geneva)
> Sandro Mezzadra (Genoa)
> Toni Negri (Rome)
> Judith Revel (Rome)
> Patrice Riemens (Amsterdam)
> Steve Wright (Melbourne)
>
> Editorial Board (Europe)
> Giorgio Agamben (Venice) Italy
> El Albert (London) United Kingdom
> Gabriel Albiac (Madrid) Spain
> Keith Ansell Pearson (Warwick) United Kingdom
> Sergio Bologna (Milan) Italy
> Sebastian Budgen (London) United Kingdom
> Giuseppe Caccia (Venice) Italy
> Alessandro Dal Lago (Genoa) Italy
> Luciano Ferrari-Bravo (Padua) Italy
> Ferrucio Gambino (Padua) Italy
> Jose' Gil (Lisbon) Portugal
> Salvatore Palidda (Milan) Italy
> Alessandro Pandolfi (Milan) Italy
> Carlos Prieto Del Campos (Madrid) Spain
> Ludovic Prieur (Padua) Italy
> Francisco Sampedro (Santiago de Compostels) Spain
> Elizabeth Samsonow (Vienna) Austria
> Peter Sloterdijk (Karlsruhe) Germany
> Isabelle Stengers (Bruxelles) Belgium
> Jean Terrier (Geneva) Switzerland
> Manuel Villaverde Cabral (Lisbon) Portugal
>
> Editorial Board (Rest of the World):
> Akira Asada (Kyoto) Japan
> Georges Caffentzis (Ithaca) USA
> Harry Cleaver (Austin) USA
> Giuseppe Cocco (Rio de Janeiro) Brazil
> Walter Evangelista (Belo Horizonte) Brazil
> Ghassan Hage (Sydney) Australia
> Helena Hirata (Sao Paulo) Brazil
> Peter Linebaugh (Toledo) USA
> Mitsuro Marimo (Kyoto) Japan
> Carlos-Alberto Messeder Pereira (Rio de Janeiro) Brazil
> Warren Montag (Los Angeles) USA
> John Rajchman (New York) USA
> Naoki Sakai (Boston) USA
> Charles Wolffe (Boston) (USA)
>
> The review maintains a network of correspondents both in France, the
> European Union and other countries (the list will be published on
> the back of the first issue).
>
> A meeting of the Friends of 'Multitudes' will be convened (in Paris
> or elswhere) twice per quarter.
>
> Subscription rates:
> France and European Union:
> a) individuals: FFR 360
> b) institutional : FFR 500
> c) discounted (students, unemployed): FFR 300
> Other Countries:
> a) individuals: FFR 460
> b) institutional : FFR 600
> c) discounted (students, unemployed): FFR 400
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