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Title: Debating Empire (New Left Review Debates) by Gopal Balakrishnan, Stanley Aronowitz, Giovanni Arrighi ISBN: 1-85984-452-9 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: 04 December, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Erratic but Useful
Comment: Hardt and Negri have clearly sparked a useful debate, especially as to the usefulness of the concepts of "the multitude" and "globalization." But while a number of these responses are promising starts (both those critical and those supportive of their reterritorializations), few have the heft of fully thought-through arguments. Others, unfortunately, are just silly. Paolo Virno's celebration of the multitude is a far more sustained engagement.
Rating: 5
Summary: Debating Empire (New Left Review Debates)
Comment: This text draws together all the debate surrounding Hardt and Negri's 'Empire', which has been hailed as a latter day 'Communist Manifesto' and as a turning point for the left, with the authors responding to the questions and criticisms of a range of international theorists and commentators.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic essays, but they all miss the point...
Comment: I read Empire two ways: First, as a homage to Marx's "Capital" and Deluze/Guattari's "Capitalim and Schizophrenia" by way of a parody; and second as an Epic Poem. Read for solid factuality it's going to flop. Read for inspiration toward action, it's going to...inspire! Spengler's "The Decline of the West" is still being read because of it's power to inspire--even though its historical accuracy is errent and its theory is dated. I feel this book may survive it's critics-- who if you JUST read "Debating Empire" all seem to be on the left--on it's lyricism alone.
Foucault refered to his books as "Novels"-- it's that self- conscious postmodern thing of not trusting your own will-to -truth I suppose. and Deleuze /Guattari didn't take themselves as seriously as some of their critics who are always quick to point out the other guys lack of expertise when he's dipping into THEIR area of expertise. This probably arrises in the University system where each department lives inside its own little ivory tower as is guarded by its own little "specialists" (in the Ortaga y Gasset sense of the word). I believe in the spirit of fun, Hardt and Negri Parodied the over the top effusiveness of both D/G and Marx and managed to succeed in creating a highly entertaining, if not theoreticaly rigerous, work.
Finally, though Many of the essayests in this book refered to Spinoza and even Deleuze's Spinoza, I don't think they dug far enough. Had they Read Deleuze's "Spinoza: Practical Philosophy", they may not have been so quick to refer to the book's Metapysics pejorativly. Yes there is a metapysics in "Empire" perhaps but why should that be disparraged, even in Marxist theory, if it produces a praxis as it's end result. Here's a passage from Deleuze's "Spinoza" that seems lay at the core of H&G's concept of "Empire":
"The important thing is to understand life, each living individuality, not as a form, or a development of form, but as a complex relation between differential velocities, between deceleration and acceleration of particles. A composition of speeds and slownesses on a plane of immanence"
If there is nothing outside Empire's plane of immanence--if everything resides inside it then it seems that the counter-empire can begin with the individual anywhere, anytime. Hurrah!
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Title: Incoherent Empire by Michael Mann ISBN: 1859845827 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The New Imperialism (Clarendon Lectures in Geography and Environmental Studies) by David Harvey ISBN: 0199264317 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World by Immanuel Wallerstein ISBN: 1565847997 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Empire's New Clothes: Reading Hardt and Negri by Paul A. Passavant, Jodi Dean ISBN: 0415935555 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Extra Time: World Politics Since 1989 by Perry Anderson ISBN: 1859845320 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: 29 July, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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