Contact us: For now, the easiest way to reach us is via email at: dredmond@efn.org
Mission statement: The American Century is over, and the age of multinational
capitalism is upon us. This Webzine is an attempt to create a multinational cultural
commons for the early 21st century -- a free-floating meeting-place, discussion-zone
and critical laboratory, where the burning issues of multinational culture can be
discussed, and where the building-blocks of a future multinational socialism can be
produced and critiqued.
We envision this Webzine as a subversively cosmopolitan cultural
observer -- somewhat like the rover at a 3D videogame, who follows the gameplay of
the multinational cultural marketplace as it happens. We welcome anyone who dissents
from the world of accumulation-as-usual, and who has a progressive vision of a future
world without violence or exploitation. We have three main goals:
1. Micropolitics is geopolitics. We want to bridge the gap between activists and intellectuals, teachers and students, union organizers and NGOs, and citizens of the metropoles and the peripheries, by providing a space for theories of (and reflections on) multinational capital and multinational capitalism.
2. No critique of the New without the recuperation of the Old. There is an urgent need to balance coverage of the new media -- the videogame, media and information cultures -- with the critical awareness and of non-hegemonic national and regional cultures. The media culture is more than just a vast warehouse of cultural capital, it is the central battleground of class consciousness nowadays.
3. Theory for all. We want to avoid replicating the divide between elitist theory
and its cognate, the splintered “activistisms”, by balancing reflection and
activism, economics and culture, theories of accumulation and narratives
of mobilization, the aesthetics of the core and the aesthetics of the periphery.
Feel free to send questions, comments and inquiries to
us at: dredmond@efn.org
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