Re: AUT: Negri and Empire

[Sergio Fiedler <s.fiedler@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well I if you see yourself in disagreement politically before reading
the book, it is probably that you would be a dissapointed.

Having said that, and having read the book, I think this is a book that
can be useful to those who like Negri's work as much as those who reject
it or are concerned about his post-structuralist influences.

Apart from liking the politics of the book, I would recommend it because
it is in the first place a extremely good summary and reference of
political and social theory including Maquiavello, the US constitution,
Marx, Lenin on imperialism, Sartre's identity politics, Foucault,
Habermas, Deleuze, Frankfurt School, and the IWW to name a few. In this
respect, Hardt and Negri have done a extremelly good and critical review
of some of these authors, including the postmodernists and
post-colonialists.

They also qualified and develop a bit more the theory of immaterial
labour and gave more concrete examples to their previous more abstract
claims. While I found the first few pages of Chapter I a bit tedious
since they were all about the new global juridical constitutions and I
hate legal staff, the book as whole was very informative, refreshing and
politically inspiring.

If you want to do a BA course and save yourself the time and the money,
and learn a new approach to revolutionary theory, just read Empire.

un entusiasta

Sergio


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