Empire Export

@book{citeulike:2854972, abstract = {Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt's \_Empire\_ has already caused quite a storm. After "anti-capitalist" demonstrations and books such as Naomi Klein's \_No Logo\_ and George Monbiot's \_Captive State\_, a vacuum seemed to exist for an extensive, coherent philosophical take on where our world is going. \_Empire\_ seeks to fill that gap by asking where globalisation comes from, what it means and whether or not it is a good or bad thing. Negri, a Marxist imprisoned for his beliefs and his involvement with the Italian hard-left, and Michael Hardt, an English literature professor who had previously acted as Negri's translator (and the translator of an important, though philosophically more arcane, precursor to \_Empire\_, Giorgio Agamben's \_The Coming Community\_) have produced a key post-Marxist text (which builds on many of the arguments in Nick Dyer-Witheford's excellent \_Cyber-Marx\_) that views its world through lenses bequeathed to it by the best of the French post-structuralists. Negri and Hardt's accomplishment has been to apply the sometimes difficult work of theorists such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (especially \_A Thousand Plateaus\_) and Jacques Derrida to describe a world that has undergone a paradigm switch to a new Empire (in a way not dissimilarly than Thomas Keenan does particularly in his chapter on Marx's rhetoric in the much undervalued \_Fables of Responsibility\_). According to Negri and Hardt, this new Empire is the result of the transformation of modern capitalism into a set of power relationships we endlessly replicate that transcend the nation state (so anti-imperialism is out as a progressive politics). Vitally, the authors argue that the multitude, through their many struggles, pushed the world to this point and it is the multitude who can push through to a much better world on the other side of globalisation. This is an optimistic, wide-ranging, defiant challenge of a book and Negri and Hardt should be commended on their erudition as much as their vision. While questions undoubtedly remain after reading the text, these should not stop the interested reader in coming to, and learning from, this profound piece of work. --\_Mark Thwaite\_}, author = {Hardt, Michael and Negri, Antonio}, citeulike-article-id = {2854972}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike01-21&path=ASIN/0674006712}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike06-21&path=ASIN/0674006712}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.amazon.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/0674006712}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0674006712/citeulike00-21}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike07-20&path=ASIN/0674006712}, citeulike-linkout-5 = {http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/0674006712}, citeulike-linkout-6 = {http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0674006712}, citeulike-linkout-7 = {http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=0674006712&index=books&linkCode=qs}, citeulike-linkout-8 = {http://www.librarything.com/isbn/0674006712}, day = {15}, edition = {New Ed}, howpublished = {Paperback}, isbn = {0674006712}, keywords = {aids, althusser, biopolitics, colonialism, deleuze, fanon, foucault, globalization, imf, marxist, neoliberal, political, theory}, month = {August}, posted-at = {2008-07-25 21:49:48}, priority = {0}, publisher = {Harvard University Press}, title = {Empire}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike07-20&path=ASIN/0674006712}, year = {2001} }

TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:2854972 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2854972 N2 - Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt's _Empire_ has already caused quite a storm. After "anti-capitalist" demonstrations and books such as Naomi Klein's _No Logo_ and George Monbiot's _Captive State_, a vacuum seemed to exist for an extensive, coherent philosophical take on where our world is going. _Empire_ seeks to fill that gap by asking where globalisation comes from, what it means and whether or not it is a good or bad thing. Negri, a Marxist imprisoned for his beliefs and his involvement with the Italian hard-left, and Michael Hardt, an English literature professor who had previously acted as Negri's translator (and the translator of an important, though philosophically more arcane, precursor to _Empire_, Giorgio Agamben's _The Coming Community_) have produced a key post-Marxist text (which builds on many of the arguments in Nick Dyer-Witheford's excellent _Cyber-Marx_) that views its world through lenses bequeathed to it by the best of the French post-structuralists. Negri and Hardt's accomplishment has been to apply the sometimes difficult work of theorists such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (especially _A Thousand Plateaus_) and Jacques Derrida to describe a world that has undergone a paradigm switch to a new Empire (in a way not dissimilarly than Thomas Keenan does particularly in his chapter on Marx's rhetoric in the much undervalued _Fables of Responsibility_). According to Negri and Hardt, this new Empire is the result of the transformation of modern capitalism into a set of power relationships we endlessly replicate that transcend the nation state (so anti-imperialism is out as a progressive politics). Vitally, the authors argue that the multitude, through their many struggles, pushed the world to this point and it is the multitude who can push through to a much better world on the other side of globalisation. This is an optimistic, wide-ranging, defiant challenge of a book and Negri and Hardt should be commended on their erudition as much as their vision. While questions undoubtedly remain after reading the text, these should not stop the interested reader in coming to, and learning from, this profound piece of work. --_Mark Thwaite_ SN - 0674006712 TI - Empire PB - Harvard University Press KW - aids KW - althusser KW - biopolitics KW - colonialism KW - deleuze KW - fanon KW - foucault KW - globalization KW - imf KW - marxist KW - neoliberal KW - political KW - theory AU - Hardt, Michael AU - Negri, Antonio PY - 2001/08/15/ UR - http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike01-21&path=ASIN/0674006712 ER -