Antonio Negri’s Ontology of Empire and Multitude
Prior to publishing (with Michael Hardt) his political treatise entitled Empire (2000), followed by its sequels, which are actually more like ‘complements’, Multitude (2004) and Commonwealth
(2009), Antonio Negri had elaborated what we might call an ontology, a theory of what there is, or in his case, of ‘the real’, in works on Spinoza, Marx, the concept of ‘constituent power’ (pouvoir constituant) and most recently…