Michael Hardt

What follows is the latter half of a two-part exchange between the authors regarding some common themes raised in their work. For part 1 see issue 14. Originally published in September 2012.

In the first of a two part correspondence, John Holloway and Michael Hardt discuss some common themes that have emerged from their most recent books and touch of the topics of organisation, democracy and institutionalism. The second part of the exchange will be published in Issue 15 of Shift magazine. Originally published in January 2012.

A review of Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt's book, Empire, by Irish anarchist Andrew Flood.

David Harvey in an exchange with Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri on their new book Commonwealth featured in the November 2009 issue of artforum.

Review and discussion of 'The Idea of Communism', a collection of essays discussing the place of communism in contemporary politics from Žižek,…

Aufheben critically review Negri and Hardt's works, Empire and Multitude, examining in particular their conception of "immaterial labour".

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summary of the arguments in Empire, in particular Negri & Hardt’s contention that Marx’s conception of class struggle is obsolete and that globalisation can be understood as capitalism's response to class struggle (7,000 words).

Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt argue that globalisation is transforming individual nation states into a system of diffuse national and global…