false 26694 5 <I>Empire</I> is a sweeping book with a big-picture vision. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri argue that while classical imperialism has largely disappeared, a new empire is emerging in a diffuse blend of technology, economics, and globalization. The book brings together unlikely bedfellows: Hardt, associate professor in Duke University's literature program, and Negri, among other things a writer and inmate at Rebibbia Prison in Rome. <I>Empire</I> aspires to the same scale of grand political philosophy as Locke or Marx or Fukuyama, but whether Hardt and Negri accomplish this daunting task is debatable. It is, however, an exciting book that is especially timely following the emergence of terrorism as a geopolitical force.<p> Hardt and Negri maintain that empire--traditionally understood as military or capitalist might--has embarked upon a new stage of historical development and is now better understood as a complex web of sociopolitical forces. They argue, with a neo-Marxist bent, that "the multitude" will transcend and defeat the new empire on its own terms. The authors address everything from the works of Deleuze to Jefferson's constitutional democracy to the Chiapas revolution in a far-ranging analysis of our contemporary situation. Unfortunately, their penchant for references and academese sometimes renders the prose unwieldy. But if Hardt and Negri's vision of the world materializes, they will undoubtedly be remembered as prophetic. <I>--Eric de Place</I> 27374 2000 Empire total:264|5:66|4:86|3:81|2:23|1:8| 264 971 464 34 5 0 false false Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jan 02 07:50:27 -0800 2009 Tue Sep 29 16:35:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jan 10 06:32:01 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 03 09:38:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Nov 07 10:21:51 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 07 10:21:51 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Thu Jan 01 09:35:18 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 09:40:14 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Tue Jun 09 19:47:58 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 19:47:58 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon Aug 13 10:31:26 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 13 10:49:39 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 14 07:33:52 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 07:48:12 -0700 2009 posse to their Marxist worldview. They get an extra star for that alone. ]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 15:41:45 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 12:43:11 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Jan 18 09:17:56 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 18 09:19:31 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Mar 09 16:55:57 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 09 16:56:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Feb 11 12:19:35 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 12:20:22 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sun May 10 06:38:37 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 06:39:07 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Mar 26 07:31:25 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 26 07:31:25 -0700 2008 The substantive issues also recieved uneven attention. The attempt to rehabilitate Marxism reall...

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For 'Empire' - our politico-social subject, there must exist a formal removal of oneself from the indirect relation of the regulated and contextual subject!

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