Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
01 Mar 2006-Journal of The Society for The Anthropology of Europe (Blackwell Publishing Ltd)-Vol. 6, Iss: 1, pp 18-19
TL;DR: Hardt and Negri as discussed by the authors present a history of war and democracy in the age of empire, with a focus on the role of women and women in the process of war.
Abstract: Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. 2004. New York. Penguin Books. 448 pages. ISBN: 0143035592 (paper).
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...This leaves those who are constrained by various ‘militant particularisms’ (Harvey 1996), or who are too under-resourced or disorganized to ‘scale jump’ ( Smith 1992 ), on the bench when it comes to the zero-sum game of global resistance....
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...More recently, this view has been articulated through force relations, mobility and access in an equally large-but-moreinclusive confrontation between global Empire and the Multitude it constitutes ( Hardt and Negri 2000, 2004 )....
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...The starting point is a discussion of the two main concepts which have informed this discourse: the metaphors of ‘network’ and ‘swarm’, as employed by, respectively, Manuel Castells (1996, 2009) and Hardt and Negri (2000, 2004, 2009)....
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...They distrust attempts ‘to recompose sites of resistance that are founded on the identities of the social subjects or national and regional groups, often grounding political analysis in the localization of struggle’ (Hardt and Negri, 2000: 40)....
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...The venerable Italian post-operaismo thinker and Duke’s maverick professor employ the notion of swarms as part of their ambitious project of defining a new social class: the multitude (Hardt and Negri, 2000, 2004, 2009)....
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Abstract: The concept of scale in human geography has been profoundly transformed over the past 20 years. And yet, despite the insights that both empirical and theoretical research on scale have generated, there is today no consensus on what is meant by the term or how it should be operationalized. In this paper we critique the dominant – hierarchical – conception of scale, arguing it presents a number of problems that cannot be overcome simply by adding on to or integrating with network theorizing. We thereby propose to eliminate scale as a concept in human geography. In its place we offer a different ontology, one that so flattens scale as to render the concept unnecessary. We conclude by addressing some of the political implications of a human geography without scale.
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