A philosopher and political thinker describes a new political grammar
free of modernist assumptions. In 2004 and 2005, Antonio Negri held
ten workshops at the College International de Philosophie in Paris to
formulate a new political grammar of the postmodern. Biopolitics,
biopowers, control, the multitude, people, war, borders, dependency and
interdependency, state, nation, the common, difference, resistance,
subjective rights, revolution, freedom, democracy: these are just a few
of the themes Negri addressed in these experimental laboratories.
Postmodernity, Negri suggests, can be described as a "porcelain
factory": a delicate and fragile construction that could be destroyed
through one clumsy act. Looking across twentieth century history, Negri
warns that our inability to anticipate future developments has already
placed coming generations in serious jeopardy. Describing the years
1917-1968 as the "short century," Negri suggests that by the end of it,
all of the familiar markers of modernity (including that of socialism)
had lost their relevance.
Confronted with an intolerable
reality, indignation and the revolutionary will to transform the world
have both taken new forms and must be understood anew, free of modernist
assumptions. In the impassioned debates recounted in this book, Antonio
Negri attempts to describe the formation of an alternative political
horizon and looks for a way to define the practices and modes of
expression that democracy could take.Antonio Negri is a philosopher and
essay writer. A political and social activist in the 1960s and 1970s in
Italy, he taught political sciences for many years and has written
numerous books on political philosophy including Marx beyond Marx
(1979), The Savage Anomaly (1983), Insurgencies (1997); and in
collaboration with Michael Hardt, Empire (2000) and Multitude (2004).
The Porcelain Workshop : For a New Grammar of Politics - Antonio Negri
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