Continuous crisis: Historical action and passion in Antonio Negri’s Insurgencies

Matthew Hyland ~ RP 112 (Mar/Apr 2002) ~ Article

The truism that history is written by (or, rather, on behalf of) conquerors is more respectable now than ever before among Sunday supplement intellectuals. The reason, where it goes beyond a simple resentful wish to damn historical analysis as ʻirrelevantʼ, seems to be that victorsʼ history is easily opposed to that of victims, that ill-deﬁned […]

Refiguring the multitude: From exodus to the production of norms

Timothy Rayner ~ RP 131 (May/Jun 2005) ~ Article

Refiguring the multitude From exodus to the production of norms Timothy rayner The fundamental faith of the metaphysicians is the faith in antithetical values. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §2Hardt and Negri describe Multitude (2004) as a ʻsequelʼ to Empire (2000). But for many this book will seem a strange successor. Empire, for all […]