Empire's New Clothes: Reading Hardt and Negri

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 7
Introduction......Page 8
Boundaries and Arendtian Politics......Page 11
Boundaries and Postmodern Republicanism......Page 13
Assessing Labor......Page 16
Assessing Place......Page 18
Political Events......Page 19
Specters of Machiavelli......Page 22
Notes......Page 24
Immanence 1 Can Immanence Explain Social Struggles?......Page 28
Notes......Page 37
Introduction......Page 38
Constituting Immanence......Page 39
The Multitude of the Multitude......Page 42
Emanations of the Multitude......Page 45
Emanations of Empire......Page 49
Notes......Page 58
Thinking Empire......Page 63
Divine Justice......Page 65
Marking to Market......Page 68
Nomological Machines......Page 72
Echinodermata......Page 74
Acknowledgments......Page 75
Notes......Page 76
Law 4 Legal Imperialism: Empire’s Invisible Hand?......Page 80
Reading Empire......Page 82
Reading the World Development Reports against Empire......Page 84
World Market......Page 88
World Constitution......Page 90
The Rule of Law as a Sustaining Myth......Page 93
Conclusion......Page 96
Notes......Page 98
Representation 5 From Empire’s Law to the Multitude’s Rights: Law, Representation, Revolution......Page 102
The Decline of Representation and the Significance of Separation......Page 103
The Special Case of the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution......Page 109
Imperial Law?......Page 110
Claiming Identity to Claim Rights......Page 113
Claiming Rights and Producing a National People: The Declaration of Independence......Page 115
Exclusions......Page 117
Representing the Multitude......Page 120
Conclusion......Page 122
Acknowledgments......Page 123
Notes......Page 124
Sovereignty 6 Representing the International: Sovereignty after Modernity?......Page 128
Proliferating Representations and the Sovereignty Narrative......Page 129
Empire: The World according to Hardt and Negri......Page 133
Taking the Internationalization of the State Seriously......Page 139
Conclusion......Page 144
Notes......Page 145
Global 7 Africa’s Ambiguous Relation to Empire and Empire......Page 150
Sovereignty......Page 151
The State......Page 154
Spatial Demarcations......Page 157
Africa and Multitude......Page 160
Nomadism......Page 161
The Creative and Generative Power of the Multitude......Page 163
Conclusion......Page 165
Notes......Page 166
Intermezzo: The Theory & Event Interview......Page 171
Note......Page 183
Connections to Empire: Thoughts on Place, Scale, and Deterritorialization......Page 184
Introduction......Page 188
Citizenship and Nationality......Page 190
Deconstructing Citizenship......Page 193
1. Unauthorized yet Recognized......Page 195
2. Authorized yet Unrecognized......Page 197
Postnational or Denationalized?......Page 199
Citizenship in the Global City......Page 200
Notes......Page 205
Place 9 The Irrepressible Lightness and Joy of Being Green: Empire and Environmentalism......Page 209
Modern Greens......Page 210
Agency......Page 212
Knowledge......Page 214
Place......Page 219
Theory and Strategy......Page 222
Notes......Page 224
Migration 10 Smooth Politics......Page 227
A Smooth World......Page 230
Sociology......Page 231
Migration......Page 233
Desire......Page 235
Politics......Page 237
Notes......Page 239
Generation 11 Taking the Millennialist Pulse of Empire’s Multitude: A Genealogical Feminist Diagnosis......Page 241
The New World Order All Over Again......Page 242
Premature Ejaculations......Page 246
Dueling Dualisms and Dialectical Echoes......Page 251
Beautiful Theory......Page 254
Life Itself......Page 257
Notes......Page 259
Capitalism 12 The Ideology of the Empire and Its Traps......Page 262
Notes......Page 273
Communication 13 The Networked Empire: Communicative Capitalism and the Hope for Politics......Page 274
Information......Page 275
Networks......Page 277
Spectacle......Page 279
Communication without Communicability......Page 280
Flipping the Script......Page 284
Constituent Hope......Page 289
Notes......Page 293
The Deconstruction of Sovereignty and the Politics of the Multitude......Page 298
Siding against Difference......Page 302
Vague Language and Strong Desires: George Sorel on Myth and Utopia......Page 309
Notes......Page 320
Hegemony and Identity......Page 325
Response: Object......Page 329
Representation......Page 331
Response: Subject......Page 333
Conclusion......Page 335
Notes......Page 336
Contributors......Page 339
Index......Page 342