ComradeMan
16th December 2010, 00:30
I'm reading this book at the moment- it's very good and interesting stuff. I think the English edition was 2009 entitled "Commonwealth".
Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, Comune. Oltre il privato e il pubblico. (http://www.revleft.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=133:hardt-negri&catid=44:pratiche-etico-politiche&Itemid=80)
"Commonwealth- beyond private and public".
Rizzoli, 2010, pp. 432,
ISBN 17038416
There some stuff on Negri at Libcom (http://libcom.org/tags/antonio-negri).
Extracted and quickly translated from this review (http://www.kainos-portale.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=133:hardt-negri&catid=44:pratiche-etico-politiche&Itemid=80)
At the end of the fourth chapter of Book I of Capital Marx, to enunciate the 'essence of capitalism, exploitation, uses a vivid image that depicts the skyline of the second industrial revolution. We are urged to "enter the hidden headquarters of production" to make us a closer look at what is hidden out loud, that is the way in which surplus value is produced, the consumption of labor market purchases.
In the last book of what could be considered the Empire trilogy written by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, City. Besides the private and the public (Commonwealth), the authors enter the laboratory of post-modernity in crisis in order to observe the dynamics, no longer hidden by the appropriation of the common equity.
As for the second modernity Marx had predicted the evolution of the relations of capital in a relationship of domination, that is, relationships increasingly complex, automated and technically powerful, Hardt and Negri describe the current bio-political landscape as a dynamic in which the neoliberal form of exploitation continually attempts to subjugate the forces of production.
The text addresses all the issues subject of discussion at some crucial philosophical and political articulations that a 'wide range of literature has outlined in recent years:
1) The inservibilità theories of the state of exception and the Republican transcendentalism (theories of the covenant of communicative action, justice), governmental practices and replaced by "political bodies" is at the heart of the work of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari redefine and today by Donna Haraway, Linda Zerilli, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler (but perhaps should weave this premise a distinction between philosophy and politics and perhaps went in context the different philosophies, objections and criticisms that the Italian thought and has led to the concept of multitude and empire).
2) The detection of a multitude of cartography as a subject de-subjectivity of the agenda, constituent processes that guide and select the practice and will not turn off the power (but also the horizon problem in this thesis consists of the concept of "naked life "should, in the opinion of the writer, investigated philosophically, politically before ...)
3) The identification of a Altermodern source of resistance, disobedience and conflict for freedom through postcolonial studies and is witnessed by the radical transformations in Latin America, China, India investing primarily in the state and production processes, as well as cooperation networks.
4) The evolution of post-Fordism as a dimension that has inundated the entire worldwide infrastructure and innervating the figures of production of knowledge, intangible goods, the dynamics of the "feminization" of labor, exploitation and emotional care, where poverty and love living in a place of identity, recognition and delegation.
5) A concept of revolution, from the emergence of the multitude, breaks with the tradition of the Communist seizure of power, hegemony, identity and organization of the vanguard aware of antagonistic subjectivities and is instead immersed in the biopolitical production that opposed from the capital.
The confrontation that Negri and Hardt engage with the philosophy and critical theory has wide-ranging and the book offers through critical responses to the objections of philosophers and theorists, a brief review of the issues that the more lively and radical thinking has produced in recent years .
Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, Comune. Oltre il privato e il pubblico. (http://www.revleft.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=133:hardt-negri&catid=44:pratiche-etico-politiche&Itemid=80)
"Commonwealth- beyond private and public".
Rizzoli, 2010, pp. 432,
ISBN 17038416
There some stuff on Negri at Libcom (http://libcom.org/tags/antonio-negri).
Extracted and quickly translated from this review (http://www.kainos-portale.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=133:hardt-negri&catid=44:pratiche-etico-politiche&Itemid=80)
At the end of the fourth chapter of Book I of Capital Marx, to enunciate the 'essence of capitalism, exploitation, uses a vivid image that depicts the skyline of the second industrial revolution. We are urged to "enter the hidden headquarters of production" to make us a closer look at what is hidden out loud, that is the way in which surplus value is produced, the consumption of labor market purchases.
In the last book of what could be considered the Empire trilogy written by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, City. Besides the private and the public (Commonwealth), the authors enter the laboratory of post-modernity in crisis in order to observe the dynamics, no longer hidden by the appropriation of the common equity.
As for the second modernity Marx had predicted the evolution of the relations of capital in a relationship of domination, that is, relationships increasingly complex, automated and technically powerful, Hardt and Negri describe the current bio-political landscape as a dynamic in which the neoliberal form of exploitation continually attempts to subjugate the forces of production.
The text addresses all the issues subject of discussion at some crucial philosophical and political articulations that a 'wide range of literature has outlined in recent years:
1) The inservibilità theories of the state of exception and the Republican transcendentalism (theories of the covenant of communicative action, justice), governmental practices and replaced by "political bodies" is at the heart of the work of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari redefine and today by Donna Haraway, Linda Zerilli, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler (but perhaps should weave this premise a distinction between philosophy and politics and perhaps went in context the different philosophies, objections and criticisms that the Italian thought and has led to the concept of multitude and empire).
2) The detection of a multitude of cartography as a subject de-subjectivity of the agenda, constituent processes that guide and select the practice and will not turn off the power (but also the horizon problem in this thesis consists of the concept of "naked life "should, in the opinion of the writer, investigated philosophically, politically before ...)
3) The identification of a Altermodern source of resistance, disobedience and conflict for freedom through postcolonial studies and is witnessed by the radical transformations in Latin America, China, India investing primarily in the state and production processes, as well as cooperation networks.
4) The evolution of post-Fordism as a dimension that has inundated the entire worldwide infrastructure and innervating the figures of production of knowledge, intangible goods, the dynamics of the "feminization" of labor, exploitation and emotional care, where poverty and love living in a place of identity, recognition and delegation.
5) A concept of revolution, from the emergence of the multitude, breaks with the tradition of the Communist seizure of power, hegemony, identity and organization of the vanguard aware of antagonistic subjectivities and is instead immersed in the biopolitical production that opposed from the capital.
The confrontation that Negri and Hardt engage with the philosophy and critical theory has wide-ranging and the book offers through critical responses to the objections of philosophers and theorists, a brief review of the issues that the more lively and radical thinking has produced in recent years .