Turbulence: Ideas for Movement

Turbulence is a writing and publishing collective that produces the magazine/newspaper Turbulence: Ideas for Movement, as well as other political interventions.
Background and Origins
The Turbulence collective emerged out of the counter-globalisation movement in 2006. Their first issue was launched at the protests against the 2007 G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany. It posed the question, ‘What would it mean to win?’ - a play on the ‘We Are Winning!’ graffiti which became an iconic image of the protests against the World Trade Organisation in Seattle in 1999.
History
Turbulence’s interventions are generally numbered. Number 1, for instance, was the Heiligendamm issue. Number 2 was a talk given at the 2007 Camp for Climate Action in the UK. Number 3 was a pamphlet length text, ‘Move into the Light? Postscript to a Turbulent 2007’, collectively written by the editors and originally intended as a PS to the first issue. ‘Move into the Light?’ has since been republished in various locations and languages. Number 4 was a comic book sized newsprint magazine asking the tongue-in-cheek question, ‘Who will save us from the future?’ It looked at the state of global movements amidst intersecting crises (economic, ecological, food and oil price, etc…) The issue of crises and the global left is continued in the latest issue of the magazine, numbered 5 and titled, ‘And Now for Something Completely Different?’, a reference to the British comedy group Monty Python.
Turbulence are currently working on an edited volume, bringing together articles from the first issue, with ‘Move into the Light?’, an extensive interview with two of the editors, and a new Preface and Forward. The volume is expected to be published by PM Press in Spring 2010. A separate, Italian language volume of Turbulence texts is also expected sometime in 2010.
Editors and Contributors
The Turbulence collective is currently made up of seven members spread across three continents and four countries (Brasil, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States). Notable contributors include: George Caffentzis, Chris Carlsson, Massimo De Angelis, Stephen Duncombe, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Gustavo Esteva, John Holloway, Frieder Otto Wolf, P.M., Suely Rolnik, Rebecca Solnit, Walter Mignolo. The magazine has also published (posthumously) a text by Félix Guattari.

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