(P/B) EMPIRE AND BEYOND

Παρουσίαση

Today, Empire no longer has an outside: it no longer tolerates realities external to itself. Hence every war cannot but be a civil war, an internal battle, a domestic strife. But if the enemy is always within, militarization is part and parcel of normalization and every war necessarily appears as a policing operation. And yet has the sun really set on the old materialist dream of transforming social conflict into the beginnings of liberation? In the cracks of Empire one can discern an emergent capacity to remould the world. The anti-Empire is represented by the multitude, the collection of impassioned and desiring individuals whose potential for action offers the best hope for a better world.
In this book Antonio Negri explains the key concepts and methods which he and Michael Hardt have used to analyse Empire and the new forms of power and counter-power that are shaping and reshaping our world today. Through five introductory lectures and several supporting texts Negri constructs a democratic discourse on globalization, renews the premises of a materialist analysis of social and political life and offers some glimpses of the future. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

PREFACE
PART ONE
Empire and beyond
THE EMPIRE AND BEYOND, APORIAS AND CONTRADICTIONS
AN AXIOMATICS FOR EMPIRE
CRUCIAL TRANSITIONS IN EMPIRE
EMPIRE AND WAR
TENDENCIES AND DRIVES TOWARDS THE RECOMPOSITION OF ARISTOCRACY IN EMPIRE
UTOPIAS AND RESISTANCE IN EMPIRE
EMPIRE AND CITIZENSHIP
LIVING THE IMPERIAL TRANSITION - IN ORDER TO STRUGGLE
RESISTANCE AND MULTITUDE
THE MONSTROUS MULTITUDE
MULTITUDO, UTOPIA STATION
PEACE AND WAR
ART AND CULTURE IN THE AGE OF EMPIRE AND THE TIME OF MULTITUDES
MARX / IMPERO-IMPERIALISM
PART TWO:
Europe - Opportunities For Struggle
EUROPE AND EMPIRE: ISSUES AND PROBLEMS
EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES IN EMPIRE
EUROPE BETWEEN UNIVERSALISM AND NATIONAL DIFFERENCES: A POSSIBLE EUROPE
A THOUSAND EUROPEAN ISSUES
NOTES ON LAYING THE BASIS FOR FOREIGN POLICY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
PART THREE
Post-socialist politics
SOCIAL ALTERNATIVES TO NEOLIBERALISM
A POST-SOCIALIST POLITICS WITHIN EMPIRE
THE NEW PHASE OF EMPIRE
URBAN DEMOCRACY
FOR A NEW WELFARE
PART FOUR
Political philosophy in imperial post-modernity
POST-MODERNITY AND LIBERTY
THE COMMUNISM OF IMMANENCE
BIO-POWER AND SUBJECTIVITY
MULTITUDE AND BIO-POWER
EMPIRE AND WAR
REFORMING THE LEXICON OF POLITICS
THE BIO-POLITICS OF GENERAL INTELLECT
THE PHILOSOPHY OF "OLD EUROPE"
THE ACTOR AND THE SPECTATOR: IMMATERIAL LABOUR, PUBLIC SERVICE, INTELLECTUAL COOPERATION AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COMMON
REAL TIME AND THE TIME OF EXPLOITATION
A NEW FOUCAULT?
POST-MODERNITY OR CONTEMPORANEITY?