Michael Hardt

Hardt, Michael

Ed — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:42:25 +0000

Keep on Smiling - questions on immaterial labour

Joseph K. — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:20:40 +0000

Toni Negri and Michael Hardt’s recent works, Empire and Multitude, have earned these authors great popularity in the Anglo-Saxon world. Negri is known in Italy for belonging to autonomia operaia in the ’70s and for being on the receiving end of political persecution by the Italian state at the end of that decade. His earlier work (above all Marx Beyond Marx) was a valid contribution to the understanding of the nature of capitalism and influenced many among us who sought an answer to Marxist objectivism and a theory of history based on class struggle. However, Negri’s earlier work circulated among a restricted public, via obscure publishers. The new Toni Negri for the ‘new’ era emerges in 2000 with Empire. A tome written with literature professor Michael Hardt, Empire was warmly welcomed even by the bourgeois press.

Marx’s mole is dead! - Globalisation and communication - Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri

Joseph K. — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 07:36:48 +0000

This text is effectively a summary of the arguments in Empire, in particular Negri & Hardt’s contention that Marx’s conception of class struggle is obsolete and that globalisation can be understood as capitalism's response to class struggle (7,000 words).

Empire

libcom — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:13:40 +0000

Empire, by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt.

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