ABSTRACT
The feeling of falling apart, of no longer being able to hold together a oncecomfortable unity with others, crumbling or the predictable order of everyday life dissolving is the experience of modernity described by such writers as Bauman (2001) and Berman (1982). However, this ‘liquidation’ of what had seemed solid also provides the conditions for innovation, reordering, reframing, and is thus essential to radical research. Whether this reframing is motivated by fears or by the lure of opportunities and profits, the scene is set for conflicts and contests in figuring forth alternative pictures of how the world should be. Central to the emergence of alternative possibilities is the role of the ‘multitude(s)’ in a world criss-crossed by the globalising technologies that dissolve boundaries, places, identities and time (Virilio 1996). It is here in exploring the notion of the multitude and its role in political thought that radical research finds its subject.
