Empire

[jentle]

Hey you all. I have a slight and basic history in Marxism, and I 'm a philosophy major biting off more than I can chew.

I&#39;m taking a class which is requiring me to write a 15 page paper comparing <u>Society of Spectacle</u> to <u>Empire</u>. While I finally have grasped spectacle. I think I&#39;m going to have an incredibly hard time wiht Empire...

Has anyone read Empire? Can anyone tell me what to expect? Is their any knowledge or book I should read to grasp a better understanding? To compare it anarchism. Does it support anarchy etc?

[Djehuti]

I do not envy you, DeBord, Negri and all these other Po-Mo marxists are not easy to grasp, you need a lot of knowledge back in your head, from Spinoza, Nietzsche, Marx and Freud to Althusser, Deleuze, Guattari and Derrida, etc.

Personally I don&#39;t grasp neither the situationists nor the post-autonomists very well, but I would like to recomend the book "Empire&#39;s new clothes". It might really help you understand Empire.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...163300?v=glance (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0415935555/qid=/sr=/ref=cm_lm_asin/102-8720671-6163300?v=glance)

[lvialviaquez]

I picked up Empire a while ago because I read an interesting review of Multitude and wanted to read it. However, I thought it best to start with the first book. Suffice it to say that I couldn&#39;t get past the first chapter without being vastly confused. I&#39;m hoping to try to read it again later after taking some more classes in philosophy. Anyway, Empire&#39;s New Clothes looks pretty interesting. I might check it out.