25 years and 100 issues of the journal <i>Multitudes</i>
In collaboration with MultitudesThe magazine Multitudes is now 25 years old and has published over 100 issues. Since 2000, its editorial line has been generalist, seeking to renew the social, ecological, and political perspectives of a left largely focused on defending its achievements. The early years of the 21st century proclaimed that "another world is possible" while allowing the rise of the far right, which is now on the verge of power. How can the legacy of Italian operaismo still inspire a collective effort of pluralistic reflection that challenges the false certainties of the present and helps us face a future free from nostalgia for the past? Critique of republican reason, praise of creolization, ecofeminism, care politics, indigenous perspectives, federal Europe, queer disidentification, digital struggles, heterodox analyses of finance, proposals for universal income and pollen tax: these are some of the avenues explored by Multitudes over the past quarter century.
Less with dogmatic certainties than with differently formulated questions—some of the issues, promises, and numerous doubts of which will be explored in the interview.
Co-director with Sandra Laugier and Yann Moulier Boutang of the journal Multitudes, Yves Citton has the opportunity to study and teach literature and media at Paris 8 University and is a member of the Institut universitaire de France.
He has published La Machine à Faire Gagner les Droites (AOC éditions, 2025), Politics of Curiosity. Alternatives to the Attention Economy (co-written with Enrico Campo, Routledge, 2024), Altermodernités des Lumières (Seuil, 2022), Faire avec. Conflits, coalitions, contagions (Les Liens qui Libèrent, 2021), Collapsonaut Generations. Navigating in Times of Collapse (co-authored with Jacopo Rasmi, 2020), Political Countercurrents (2018), Mediaarchy (2017), Pour une écologie de l’attention (2014), Zazirocratie (2011).
His articles are freely available at www.yvescitton.net
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