Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire is a book written by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt published in 2004. It is a sequel to the 2000 book, Empire.
Empire analyzed the formation of a new global geopolitical order, an apparently chaotic set of controls and representative organizations which, on closer inspection, forms a pyramidal power-structure that is composed of three progressively broader tiers:
It is in this last tier that, al...
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Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire is a book written by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt published in 2004. It is a sequel to the 2000 book, Empire.
Empire analyzed the formation of a new global geopolitical order, an apparently chaotic set of controls and representative organizations which, on closer inspection, forms a pyramidal power-structure that is composed of three progressively broader tiers:
It is in this last tier that, albeit indirectly, the multitude appears as the Other of the People: “The democratic forces that in this framework ought to constitute the active and open element of the imperial machine appear rather as corporative forces, as a set of superstitions and fundamentalisms, betraying a spirit that is conservative when not downright reactionary. […] This limited sphere of imperial ‘democracy’ is configured as a People (an organized particularity that defends established privileges and properties) rather than as a multitude (the universality of free...
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