Our tenth issue will reflect on the space left for literary, philosophical and artistic journals today. Is continuing to cling to the idea of a journal — with its peculiar form and temporality — not a desperately nostalgic undertaking in times where virtually everyone now instantly publishes his diary on his personal blog? Some may claim, and not without reason, that the time of the critical magazines of the 18^th century (such as the Athenaeum of the German Romantics in Jena) or the leaflets of the early 20^th century (such as Lacerba of the Italian futurists, Breton’s Révolution surréaliste or Bataille’s Acéphale) has definitely passed. But beyond a diffuse feeling, what are the concrete reasons for their inadequateness to our times?

One could conjecture that the journal in its classical form may be hampered by three of its characteristics: 1) the unity of its authors: most of the above-mentioned journals were the official publication organ for specific aesthetic or political groups and communities (romanticism, futurism, surrealism etc.) and they often are their own first addressees; 2) the unity of place: the journals are published in a specific place (Jena, Florence, Paris) and reacts to the events happening in its cultural and social scene 3) the unity of its support: the peculiar identity of the community defines itself, among other things, through a certain material concretization of the journal (its paper support) which is thus physically limited in its geographical distribution.

ATOPIA 10 will thus be specially dedicated to the project born at the same time in France, Italy and Germany in the early 1960’s and known under the name of “Revue Internationale”. This project never went beyond a virtual existence took up the heritage of the classical journal but also chanced beyond its limitations to create a journal without localization nor fix community.