Empire
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2000.
Format: Book
Description: xvii, 478 pages ; 25 cm
Imperialism as we knew it may be no more, but empire is alive and well. It is, as the authors demonstrate in this work the new political order of globalisation. It is easy to recognise the contemporary economic, cultural, and legal transformations taking place across the globe but difficult to understand them. Hardt and Negri contend that they should be seen in line with our historical understanding of empire as a universal order that accepts no boundaries or limits. Their book shows how this emerging empire is fundamentally different from the imperialism of Europe dominance and capitalist expansion in previous eras. Rather, today's empire draws on elements of US constitutionalism, with its tradition of hybrid identities and expanding frontiers.
Contents:
Pt. 1. The Political Constitution of the Present. 1.1. World Order. 1.2. Biopolitical Production. 1.3. Alternatives within Empire -- Pt. 2. Passages of Sovereignty. 2.1. Two Europes, Two Modernities. 2.2. Sovereignty of the Nation-State. 2.3. The Dialectics of Colonial Sovereignty. 2.4. Symptoms of Passage. 2.5. Network Power: U.S. Sovereignty and the New Empire. 2.6. Imperial Sovereignty -- Intermezzo: Counter-Empire -- Pt. 3. Passage of Production. 3.1. The Limits of Imperialism. 3.2. Disciplinary Governability. 3.3. Resistance, Crisis, Transformation. 3.4. Postmodernization, or The Informatization of Production. 3.5. Mixed Constitution. 3.6. Capitalist Sovereignty, or Administering the Global Society of Control -- Pt. 4. The Decline and Fall of Empire. 4.1. Virtualities. 4.2. Generation and Corruption. 4.3. The Multitude against Empire
ISBN:
0674251210 (alk. paper)
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Continued by: Multitude.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [417]-472) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [417]-472) and index.