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Michael Hardt

Professor of Literature
Literature
Box 90670, Durham, NC 27708-0670
106 Friedl Building, Buchanan and Trinity, Durham, NC 27708-0670

Scholarly Works - Journal articles


Iran Beyond the Exception

Journal article South Atlantic Quarterly · January 1, 2026 Full text Cite

BERLANT’S AMERICA

Journal article Cultural Critique · September 1, 2024 Full text Cite

A Reply to Xifaras

Journal article Law and Critique · April 1, 2024 Full text Cite

Standpoint theory and double abolition

Journal article Cultural 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 ... Full text Cite

The Politics of Articulation and Strategic Multiplicities

Journal article Journal 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 ... Full text Cite

A dialogue with Michael Hardt on revolution, joy, and learning to let go

Journal article Educational 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 ... Full text Cite

From social worker to social ship owner: Interview with Alessandro Metz

Journal article South Atlantic Quarterly · January 1, 2020 Full text Cite

Introduction: Migrant projects of freedom

Journal article South Atlantic Quarterly · January 1, 2020 Full text Cite

EMPIRE, TWENTY YEARS ON

Journal article New Left Review · November 1, 2019 Cite

Nuclear Sovereignty

Journal article Theory 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 ... Full text Cite

The multiplicities within capitalist rule and the articulation of struggles

Journal article Triplec · 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 ... Full text Cite

The powers of the exploited and the social ontology of praxis

Journal article Triplec · 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 ... Full text Cite

MANAGING UP

Journal article ARTFORUM INTERNATIONAL · October 2017 Link to item Cite

October! to commemorate the future

Journal article South Atlantic Quarterly · October 1, 2017 Full text Cite

Red love

Journal article South Atlantic Quarterly · October 1, 2017 Full text Cite

Multiple temporalities of the movements

Journal article Triplec · January 1, 2017 Full text Cite

The Power to be Affected

Journal article International 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 ... Full text Cite

Foreword to the First Edition

Journal article Another World is Possible World Social Forum Proposals for an Alternative Globalization · January 1, 2015 Cite

Insolubility of marriage, sacramental communion and remarriage as reflected in the ecumenical dialogues

Journal article Catholica · 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 ... Cite

How to Write with Four Hands

Journal article Genre · June 1, 2013 Full text Cite

El reconocimento de nuestra condición común

Journal article Youkali · 2013 Cite

Romantisme et multitudes Politique du langage

Journal article Multitudes · 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 ... Full text Cite

Note from the editor

Journal article South Atlantic Quarterly · December 1, 2012 Full text Cite

Note from the editor

Journal article South Atlantic Quarterly · September 1, 2012 Full text Cite

Note from the editor

Journal article South Atlantic Quarterly · June 1, 2012 Full text Cite

Falsify the Currency!

Journal article South Atlantic Quarterly · April 1, 2012 Full text Cite

A note from the editor

Journal article South Atlantic Quarterly · March 1, 2012 Full text Cite

Response: Reveal the apparatus

Journal article Focaal · January 1, 2012 Full text Cite

Practices of Love

Journal article Mousse · 2012 Cite

On the Risk of a New Relationality

Journal article Reviews in Cultural Theory · 2012 Cite

Note from the editor

Journal article South Atlantic Quarterly · December 1, 2011 Full text Cite

For Love or Money

Journal article Cultural Anthropology · November 2011 Full text Cite

Note from the editor

Journal article South Atlantic Quarterly · September 1, 2011 Full text Cite

La costituzione del comune e le ragioni della sinistra

Journal article MicroMega · August 2011 Cite

Note from the editor

Journal article South Atlantic Quarterly · June 1, 2011 Full text Cite

Interview

Journal article The White Review · 2011 Cite

No One is Sovereign in Love

Journal article No More Potlucks · 2011 Featured Publication Link to item Cite

The Militancy of Theory

Journal article South Atlantic Quarterly · January 1, 2011 Featured Publication Full text Cite

Obama and the Left at Midterm

Journal article South Atlantic Quarterly · 2011 Full text Link to item Cite

The common in communism

Journal article Rethinking Marxism · July 1, 2010 Featured Publication 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 ... Full text Cite

Editors' introduction

Journal article Rethinking 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 ... Full text Cite

Two Faces of Apocalypse: A Letter from Copenhagen

Journal article · 2010 Featured Publication Open Access Cite

Tronti’s Topography of Revolt

Journal article Genre · 2010 Cite

Commonwealth: An exchange

Journal article Artforum International · December 1, 2009 Cite

Production and Distribution of the Common

Journal article Open: Cahier on Art and the Public Domain · 2009 Cite

Pasolini Discovers Love Outside

Journal article Diacritics: A Review of Contemporary Criticism · 2009 Featured Publication Link to item Cite

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Journal article ARTFORUM INTERNATIONAL · December 2008 Link to item Cite

Organizing Encounters and Generating Events

Journal article In the Middle of a Whirlwind: Web Publication for the 2008 RNC Protests · 2008 Cite

Ne Darbo Islaisvinimas, O Issilaisvinimas Nuo Darbo!

Journal article Juodraštis · 2008 Cite

From the Perspective of Resistance

Journal article Upping the Anti · October 2007 Cite

Jefferson and Democracy

Journal article American Quarterly · March 2007 Featured Publication Cite

Talking into Being

Journal article Rain Taxi · 2007 Cite

Interview with Michael Hardt

Journal article Theory, Culture & Society · September 2006 Full text Cite

From Imperialism to Empire

Journal article The Nation · July 31, 2006 Featured Publication Cite

Welcoming the Multitude

Journal article The Brown Journal of World Affairs · 2006 Cite

Second Empire; Or, The Eighteenth Brumaire of George W. Bush

Journal article Radical History Review · 2006 Full text Cite

Immaterial labor and artistic production

Journal article Rethinking 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 ... Full text Cite

Flesh exposure of Pasolini

Journal article Multitudes · December 1, 2004 Full text Cite

Multitude: War and democracy in the Empire era - Good selections

Journal article Multitudes · 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 ... Full text Cite

The collaborator and the multitude: An interview with Michael Hardt

Journal article Minnesota Review · March 1, 2004 Cite

Collective Tyranny

Journal article Arab Journal for the Humanities · 2004 Cite

Why We Need a Multilateral Magna Carta

Journal article Global Agenda: The Magazine of the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting · 2004 Cite

The Collaborator and the Multitude

Journal article Minnesota Review · 2004 Cite

Travallar por unha domocracia mundial e a unica resposta

Journal article Grial: Revista Galega de Cultura · April 2003 Cite

The 18th Brumaire of George W. Bush

Journal article Global Magazine · March 2003 Cite

Après Empire

Journal article Conjunctures · 2003 Cite

Interview

Journal article Historical Materialism · 2003 Cite

The Rod of the Forest Warden: A Response to Timothy Brennan

Journal article Critical Inquiry · January 2003 Full text Cite

Challenging Empire

Journal article Radical Society · December 2002 Cite

Il tramonto del mondo contadino nell’Impero

Journal article Posse · May 2002 Cite

From Porto Alegre: Today’s Bandung?”

Journal article New Left Review · March 2002 Cite

Subterranean Passages of Thought: Empire’s Inserts

Journal article Cultural Studies · 2002 Cite

Porto Alegre: The work of multitudes

Journal article Multitudes · January 1, 2002 Full text Cite

Adventures of the multitude: Response of the authors

Journal article Rethinking Marxism · January 1, 2001 Full text Cite

Biopolitical production

Journal article Multitudes · December 1, 2000 Full text Cite

Guaranteed Income, or, The Separation of Labor from Income

Journal article Hybrid: Journal of Law and Social Change · 2000 Cite

Sovereignty, Multitudes, Absolute Democracy

Journal article Theory and Event · 2000 Cite

Affective Labor

Journal article boundary2 · January 1999 Cite

Introduction

Journal article · 1999 Cite

Affective labor (Political economy)

Journal article BOUNDARY 2-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND CULTURE · 1999 Link to item Cite

The Global Society of Control

Journal article Discourse · 1998 Cite

Exposure: Pasolini in the Flesh

Journal article Canadian Review of Comparative Literature · September 1997 Link to item Cite

Prison Time

Journal article Yale French Studies · 1997 Cite

Postmodern Law and the withering of civil society

Journal article Angelaki Journal of the Theoretical Humanities · December 1, 1996 Full text Cite

Le lotte non nascono dalla teoria

Journal article DeriveApprodi · February 1996 Cite

The Withering of Civil Society

Journal article Social Text · 1995 Cite

L’hibridité de l’Empire

Journal article Futur antérieur · 1995 Cite

Los Angeles Novos

Journal article Futur antérieur · 1992 Cite

La violence de la fraternité: hommage à Malcolm X

Journal article Futur antérieur · 1991 Cite

Review

Journal article Rethinking Marxism · January 1, 1990 Full text Cite

What Is To Be Done, After Foucault

Journal article Papers in Romance · 1989 Cite

In the Aftermath of the Duke Case

Journal article Social Text Cite