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Antonio Negri
is an Italian philosopher, writer and independent researcher. Among his numerous publications are The Politics of Subversion: A Manifesto for the 21st Century (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1989, originally published in French in 1986); The Labour of Dionysos: A Critique of a State-Form (1994); Empire (2000); and Multitude (2004), together with Michael Hardt.
Eurozine Articles
The discovery of the communal
A manifesto
"Bodies and minds, once the cannon fodder of production, have become capitalism's cannonballs. Capitalism can no longer exist without the communal; with the communal, opportunities for resistance increase infinitely. That is the paradox of an epoch that has discarded the rags of modernity." [more]
What makes a biopolitical space?
A discussion with Toni Negri
The city, says Toni Negri, is where the "political diagonal" intersects the "biopolitical diagram". Yet "soft" forms of activism that create collectivities on micro, neighbourhood levels only go so far, says Negri, who favours rupture and revolution over accumulation and gradual change. [more]
Italy one Year after Genoa
The Formation of the New European Left in Italy
The events of Genoa have sent shockwaves through Italy. One year on however, a newly formed left is back in force. [more]
And Thus Began the Fall of the Empire
Multitude and Movement in Genoa
On the barricades you do no longer find an avant-garde, but a multitude. In Genoa Antonio Negri saw this new proletariat, but also the ghosts of the past – a political Left too embedded in the systems of control and power. [more]
Marx's Mole is Dead!
Globalisation and Communication
Drawing on their book