Public Acts: Touch and the multitude

Through a series of readings and discussions, An Ungrammatical Multitude has been grappling with the challenges that the notion of multitude introduce to common understandings of subjectivity and action. Thanks to Christine's project Public Acts, we have stumbled upon the idea of touch as a valuable heuristic to continue thinking through these important themes. For what is a multitude without touch? Touching is an action, but one that complicates individualistic notions of constrained agency. Non-physical touch, which must be bracketed in order to imagine the multitude's constituents as singularities, precedes the will to be one or many; materialised touch, in turn, defies in a strict sense the monologic separation between toucher and touched.
Public Acts invites us to reconcile the politics and poetics of this everyday act/term. We wish Christine all the best with her project.