Multimodal Ambivalence: A Manifesto for Producing in S@!#t Times.

Our manifesto is a means not just to participate in the vibrant theorization of multimodality that has unfolded over the last several years in the discipline but to embrace an ambivalence towards its promise and potential and to offer an invitation for you to do the same. Multimodal Ambivalence: A Manifesto for Producing in S@! We conclude this short essay by discussing the experiments we will take up to create a different sort of review process for this type of work, one that is transparent, dialogic, and guided by the key tenets of our manifesto. We hope this model, which draws from previous work to reimagine the peer-review process that centers feedback as a reciprocal process (Nolas and Varvantakis 2019), will actively shift how we imagine the process of peer review in the future, calling for a more processual, humane form of knowledge production that eschews the elitism from which many of our academic tools, protocols, institutions, and distribution channels have emerged. [Extracted from the article]