Journal ArticleCultural Dynamics · November 1, 2023
I read Denise Ferreira da Silva’s Unpayable Debt as an experiment that adopts “the wounded captive body in the scene of subjugation” as an epistemological standpoint. This situates her project in line with a tradition of standpoint theories that adopt, for ...
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Book · July 20, 2023
The 1970s was a decade of "subversives". Faced with various progressive and revolutionary social movements, the forces of order-politicians, law enforcement, journalists, and conservative intellectuals-saw subversives everywhere. From indigenous peasant ar ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Speculative Philosophy · January 1, 2023
A prerequisite for today’s most powerful social movements is not only to analyze the interwoven and mutually constitutive nature of different structures of power but also to discover the means to articulate in a coherent organizational project diverse stru ...
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Journal ArticleEducational Philosophy and Theory · January 1, 2022
In this wide-ranging conversation, Michael Hardt reflects on recent transformations within Empire. Several unique themes emerge concerning power and pedagogy as they intersect with subjectivity and global crisis. Drawing on the common in conjunction with t ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2021
Michel Foucault was born in Poitiers and studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure, where Louis Althusser was one of his teachers. Foucault’s joined binary concept would seem to remind of Marx’s post-Hegelian theory of the cultural superstructure determined ...
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Chapter · August 11, 2020
Warren Montag's Louis Althusser is a wonderfully clear introduction to Althusser's thought that demonstrates in particular how his work continues to be useful for literary studies. Montag's most original contribution is that he demonstrates that artistic p ...
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Journal ArticleTheory and Event · October 1, 2019
It is a paradox today that, although the dangers posed by nuclear arsenals continue undiminished, the social movements and intellectual arguments opposing them have virtually dis-appeared. This essay argues that in order to mount an effective movement to a ...
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Other · January 1, 2019
Toni negri's political history reads like a Hollywood movie script: A dazzling roller-coaster ride of spectacular successes and defeats, of subversion, false accusations, intrigue, imprisonment, flight, exile. Negri is perhaps unique among contemporary pol ...
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Journal ArticleTripleC · May 4, 2018
This contribution is part of a debate between Michael Hardt/Toni Negri and David Harvey on the occasion of Marx’s bicentenary (May 5, 2018). The discussion focuses on the question of what capitalism looks like today and how it can best be challenged. In th ...
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Journal ArticleTripleC · May 4, 2018
This contribution is the first part of a debate between Michael Hardt/Toni Negri and David Harvey on the occasion of Marx’s bicentenary. The discussion focuses on the question of what capitalism looks like today and how it can best be challenged. This cont ...
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Scholarly Edition · 2018
I movimenti «senza leader» a livello globale – da Gezi Park e Piazza Tharir a Occupy Wall Street, da Black Lives Matter agli Indignados a Ni Una Menos – hanno contestato le politiche governative e alle volte rovesciato regimi, ma senza riuscire ad attuare ...
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Book · 2017
Drawing on ideas developed through their well-known Empire trilogy, Hardt and Negri have produced, in Assembly, a timely proposal for how current large-scale horizontal movements can develop the capacities for political strategy and ... ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Politics, Culture and Society · September 17, 2015
Lauren Berlant and Baruch Spinoza both maintain that our ethical and political projects must be formulated and conducted on the terrain of the affects. Key to both projects is to recongize our power to be affected as not a weakness but a strength and to re ...
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Journal ArticleCatholica · January 1, 2014
Since the 1960s ecumenical dialogues have endeavoured to formulate common statements concerning marriage. The aim has been to develop a unifying pastoral understanding of matrimony. Reviewing the different dialogues it becomes apparent that the churches do ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2013
For most people, the most important economic activity is the one they are engaged in. For lawyers and accountants it is corporate consulting, for volunteers and activists it is the third sector, for nurses and doctors it is healthcare, for politicians and ...
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Journal ArticleMultitudes · January 1, 2013
Romanticism and MultitudesIn this interview, Michael Hardt and Saree Makdisi engage a Romanticism that goes beyond its traditional identification with nationalism and bourgeois individualism. Using the concept of the multitude as an entry point, the ensuin ...
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Journal ArticleRethinking Marxism · July 1, 2010
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This essay reflects on the concept of the common as both natural good and human product. The common, in other words, refers to the land, water, and air as well as to language, knowledges, ideas, images, and affects. The primary argument is that capitalist ...
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Journal ArticleRethinking Marxism · July 1, 2010
We want to ask, rather, what is the operative notion of the common today, in the midst of postmodernity, the information revolution, and the consequent transformations of the mode of production. It seems to us, in fact, that today we participate in a more ...
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Book · 2007
"In 1776 Thomas Jefferson, a future president, authored the most explosive document in the history of America: The Declaration of Independence, formally severing the link between America and the British state. ...
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Journal ArticleRethinking Marxism · January 1, 2005
Warren Montag’s Louis Althusser is a wonderfully clear introduction to Althusser’s thought that demonstrates in particular how his work continues to be useful for literary studies. Montag’s most original contribution is that he demonstrates that artistic p ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2005
Abandon me! Incarnation is all about abandonment - abandonment to the flesh. Paul writes that in becoming flesh Christ abandoned the form of God; he emptied himself by taking on a limited materiality. This self-emptying is the exposure of the flesh. It is ...
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Journal ArticleMultitudes · December 1, 2004
In these selections from their new book, entitled Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, Toni Negri and Michael Hardt focus on the notion of «multitude,» in the face of various critiques that followed the publication of Empire in 2000.They also ...
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Book · July 13, 2000
This book brings together key essays and excerpts from the broad spectrum of Frederic Jameson's writings, providing an accessible introduction to the intricacies of his thought and uncovering new and exciting aspects of his work. ...
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