false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170665184m/67012.jpg 67012 7 Complex, ambitious, disquieting, and ultimately hopeful, <I>Multitude</I> is the work of a couple of writers and thinkers who dare to address the great issues of our time from a truly alternative perspective. The sequel to 2001's equally bold and demanding <I>Empire</I> continues in the vein of the earlier tome. Where <I>Empire</I>'s central premise was that the time of nation-state power grabs was passing as a new global order made up of "a new form of sovereignty" consisting of corporations, global-wide institutions, and other command centers is in ascendancy, <I>Multitude</I> focuses on the masses within the empire, except that, where academics Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri are concerned, this body is defined by its diversity rather than its commonalities. The challenge for the multitude in this new era is "for the social multiplicity to manage to communicate and act in common while remaining internally different." One may already be rereading that last sentence. Indeed, <I>Empire</I> isn't breezy reading. But for those aren't afraid of wadding into a knotty philosophical and political discourse of uncommon breadth, <I>Multitude</I> offers many rewards. <I>--Steven Stolder<i/></I> 418722 2004 Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire total:153|5:44|4:53|3:38|2:11|1:7| 153 575 286 26 5 0 false false Fri Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 10 10:55:15 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 11:08:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri Feb 13 09:29:50 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 19:09:31 -0800 2009 1, referenced often more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jun 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 07:29:56 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 09:38:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Apr 05 19:47:18 -0700 2007 Sat Apr 07 06:09:56 -0700 2007 Empire, Hardt and Negri trace the lineaments of a beast with multiple backs they call Multitude: different people coming together to oppose Capital/Empire who celebrate/enjoy/accept their differences, and yet still work together towards the creation of "the common". (In...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 29 21:01:36 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 11 10:09:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Aug 09 08:55:05 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 08:57:20 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 16 11:22:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 11:23:23 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 01 09:40:30 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 09:42:23 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Aug 13 10:56:39 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 13 11:07:59 -0700 2007 Empire, in this book the authors get less philosophical, more interested in seeing if their ideas can be applied to the real world. Given the stir its predecessor made, the authors also used the criticism of that earlier work to help guide this one.

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