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LITTLE MAGAzINES: PORTABLE UTOPIA BEATRIz COLOMINA 211
All these utopian speculations in little magazines about miniaturization, information, computation, sexuality, ecology, radical politics, philosophy, etc. resonate today with the dominant obsessions in the mass media with sustainability, the occupy movement, digital culture etc. The issues of the little magazines of the 1960s and 1970s have migrated to the mass media. As with the historical avant- garde, the seemingly unrealistic medium of the little magazine calibrated to the micro experience of its serial repetition acts as the generator of a new mass reality. Utopia becomes palpable.
After the Multiple
New media today brings new portable utopias. A new generation is perforating the world with the ever evolving technologies of social media. The logic of the multiple is being taken to a whole new extreme. Serial repetition gives way to viral exchange.