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In their international bestseller Empire, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri presented a grand unified vision of a world in which the old forms of imperialism are no longer effective. But what of Empire in an age of "American empire"? Has fear become our permanent condition and democracy an impossible dream? Such pessimism is profoundly mistaken, the authors argue. Empire, by interconnecting more areas of life, is actually creating the possibility for a new kind of democracy, allowing different groups to form a multitude, with the power to forge a democratic alternative to the present world order.Exhilarating in its optimism and depth of insight, Multitude consolidates Hardt and Negri's stature as two of the most important political philosophers at work in the world today.… (more)
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The postmodernists might reply, no, this book is not for you. It is only for those of us
the critique of democracy in terms of representation is obvious and also rather weakly presented, since negri still seems a little attached to his own ideal
the articulation of the common, beyond public/private, is extremely vague and poorly done; critically, there is no exploration of the relationship bw production of the truly common and the securitized regime under the civil war of empire
and ofc their elaboration of the universal identity of the multitude (and the singularity of its constituents) is somewhat pointless and incoherent