Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
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Summary
Multitude is divided into three sections: "War," which addresses the current "global civil war";[1] "Multitude," which elucidates the "multitude" as an "active social subject, which acts on the basis of what the singularities share in common";[1] and, "Democracy," which critiques traditional forms of political representation and gestures toward alternatives.
Multitude addresses these issues and elaborates on the assertion, in the Preface to Empire, that:
"The creative forces of the multitude that sustain Empire are also capable of autonomously constructing a counter-Empire, an alternative political organization of global flows and exchanges."[2]
Notes
Further reading
- Welsh, John. (2016) The shadow: alter-visibility in an empire of the seen. Distinktion 17(1): 57-77. [1].
External links
- Review of Multitude, by Eric Mason
- The village voice review, by John Giuffo
- A deconstructive reading of Multitude
- "The Collaborator and the Multitude: An Interview with Michael Hardt" – Hardt talks about Multitude, the sequel to Empire. (2004)
- Timothy Rayner (2005). Refiguring the multitude: From exodus to the production of norms. Radical Philosophy 131.