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n. 1 (plural of multitude English) 2 The mass of ordinary people; the populous or the masses.
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Multitudes is a French philosophical, political and artistic monthly journal founded in 2000 by Yann Moulier-Boutang. It is thematically situated in the theoretical framework of the seminal work Empire by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt. The journal, like the book, focuses on the further elaboration of the philosophical and political thought of the Italian operaismo, but seems also to rest on Foucault, Althusser, and Deleuze's thought. It is a successor to the review Futur Antérieur edited by Jean-Marie Vincent (1934-2004) and Toni Negri, at the dep. of political science - University Vincennes Paris 8. It is a member of the Eurozine network.
Multitudes's name comes from the Spinozist eponymic concept. It has been thought by Toni Negri as an alternative to the classic conception of the people, class consciousness, or nation-state. It publishes a lot on themes relating to the information society and the knowledge economy, supporting in particular the thesis of a "cognitive labour" and " affective labour" which can not be measured by standard means of labor-time, and also insists on the cooperative aspects of production in modern society. For this reason and others, it tends to argue in favour of a guaranteed minimum income.
Contents published by Multitudes are mostly in French, although some articles are translated (in English, Spanish, etc.) and are under a Creative Commons license.
Usage examples of "multitudes".
The police having ordered the two multitudes to take positions behind the duelists, we were once more ready.
Here we are, with our knobby little heads, our eyes and hands and feet and stout hearts, and if not us or ours, still the endless multitudes about us and in our loins are to come at last to the World State and a greater fellowship and the universal tongue.
I find myself looking among the pleasant multitudes of the streets for types that promise congenial conversation.
Christ looked down from the mountain opposite upon the surging multitudes in the streets and on the bridges.
Nothing was to be seen but multitudes of tall, slender, melancholy stems, as like as peas, and standing within a foot of each other.
Suddenly, blazing multitudes of stars shone through it and its face at once seemed too dark and too bright to look upon.
I saw cats-- Tom-cats, Mary Ann cats, long-tailed cats, bob-tailed cats, blind cats, one-eyed cats, wall-eyed cats, cross-eyed cats, gray cats, black cats, white cats, yellow cats, striped cats, spotted cats, tame cats, wild cats, singed cats, individual cats, groups of cats, platoons of cats, companies of cats, regiments of cats, armies of cats, multitudes of cats, millions of cats, and all of them sleek, fat, lazy and sound asleep.
How sad it is to think of the multitudes who have gone to their graves in this beautiful island and never knew there was a hell!
He could never look on the thronging multitudes that crowded its pews and aisles or knelt bare-headed on its steps, without a longing to get in among them and go down on his knees and enjoy that luxury of devotional contact which makes a worshipping throng as different from the same numbers praying apart as a bed of coals is from a trail of scattered cinders.
It has goaded countless multitudes of various creeds to endless forms of self-torture.
In religious matters there are great multitudes watching us perpetually, each propagandist ready with his bundle of finalities, which having accepted we may be at peace.
He had the neverfailing predilection for showy switch-tailed horses that step high, and sidle about, and act as if they were going to do something fearful the next minute, in the face of awed and admiring multitudes gathered at mighty musters or imposing cattle-shows.
I have been thinking over what we were talking about, and how near I came to solving the great problem which every day makes clear to such multitudes of people.
And all at once all the buried multitudes who had ever worshipped there came thronging in through the aisles.
Get Malcolm to read to you out of the book of the Revelation how there were multitudes even then standing before the throne.