Making Multiplicity

In this poetical-philosophical manifesto, Gerald Raunig develops a materialist philosophy of multiplicity. On the basis of seventeen conceptual innovations – from windy kin to transversal intellect, from dissemblage to technecologies, from minor masculinity to condividual revolution – Raunig reformulates the question of revolutionary multiplicity. Always staying close to contemporary social struggles and movements, the book starts from the contention that we are in need of a storm against identitarian domination, unification, and homogeneity. Raunig argues that the conceptual and political experimentations with multiplicity around and after 1968 did not go far enough: today, anti-identitarian, queer, and multitudinarian positions should not just be defended but pushed further, over unexpected folds and along the flattest surfaces, beyond previous approaches and previous historical experiences. Making Multiplicity is a conceptual manifesto which sets a new tone in poststructural philosophy. The seventeen concepts developed here form an assemblage that invites us to think, read, write, and indeed, make multiplicity.

Introduction 1. Of Machinic Capitalism 2. Of Dividuality and Condivision 3. Of Middle 4. Of Assembly, Farnearness, and Becoming Similar 5.  Of Minor Voices and Windy Kin 6. Of Joints, Disjointures and Subjunctures 7. Of Subsistence and Subsistings 8.  Of Caring Company, Propertyless Occupation and Poor Possession 9. Of Technecologies and Transverses 10. Of Softness, Unmunt and Minor Masculinity 11. Of Becoming Nothing 12. Of Transversal Intellect 13. Of Queer Bracing of Time and of Lurking for What Was 14. Of Non/conforming Masses 15. Of Condividual Revolution 16. Of Dissemblage 17. Of Multiplicity