Biennial of journals of critical thought from the two shores of the Mediterranean
From 12 to 15 December 2002, at the initiative of Transeuropéennes, some thirty representatives of journals of critical thought gathered in Marrakech, Morocco, for a first-ever Biennial of journals of critical thought from the two shores of the Mediterranean on the topic of “Forms of Resistance and Utopia.” These intellectuals – women and men from Algeria, Croatia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Tunisia and Turkey, all either founders, directors, editors in chief or editorial-board members of the invited journals – came together to think collectively about the contemporary issues facing critical thought, against a backdrop of international and political crises, as well as a crisis of symbolic representations. Together, the participants laid the groundwork for a practical reflection on the conditions of a Euro-Mediterranean public sphere, where journals necessarily have a central role to play.