Antonio Negri

philosopher · 11 mentions across 3 readings

In this course

Negri, working with Michael Hardt, theorizes how globalism has dissolved autonomous political formations and distinct worldviews, proposing instead a self-producing, self-aware "body of man" as a unified whole that can resist this homogenization. In the course readings, Negri and Hardt are invoked to frame contemporary biopolitics—the management of life itself at a planetary scale—and to articulate what an intentional, collective political response to such governance might look like. Their work bridges cybernetic notions of self-organization and feedback with critical theory's concern for how power operates through and on living populations.

Mentioned in 3 readings

Tiqqun

The Cybernetic Hypothesis (2001)

could have as its objective a pluralistic management of the whole of the machinic constituents," wrote Guattari in the last text he ever published -- the lethal vision of a definitive civil peace between humans and non-humans. VI "Just lik…Toni Negri's career within the Autonomia group, and the nebula of his disciples in France and in the anglo world, show just how much Marxism could authorize such a slippery slide towards the will to will, towards "infinite mobilization," se…It is precisely because valorization is no longer assignable to what takes place solely in the production sphere that we must now displace political gestures - I'm thinking of normal union strikes, for example, not even to mention general s…

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Claire Colebrook

A Globe of One’s Own, In Praise of the Flat Earth

The word “globalism” along with the word “biopolitics” suffers from a curious double valence. As a descriptive term, globalism can refer to the lost autonomy and difference of worlds. Once upon a time the globe enjoyed divergent timelines a…Hardt and Negri, reacting more explicitly to a globalism that has precluded any active and intentional formation of a polity, call for the creation of a single, self-producing, self-aware and self-referring open whole of humanity: a single,…On the one hand, Foucault suggests that this is in quite a specific sense the consequence of a refigured globe: the pre-modern space of knowledge had distributed beings in relations of analogy, such that the universal order of things was re…

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James Brusseau

Deleuzes Postscript on the Societies of Control Updated for Big Data and Predictive Analytics

a society of control. This essay updates Deleuze’s Postscript with three aims. First, to show how the mechanisms of social control have developed over the last thirty years. Today, ‘control’ is no longer an abstract concept in political phi…

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Michael Hardt 7 Giorgio Agamben 3 Pierre Lévy 2 Michel Foucault 2 Gilbert Simondon 1 Gilles Deleuze 1 Felix Guattari 1 Robert Musil 1 Edmund Husserl 1 Evan Thompson 1 Jacques Derrida 1 John Donne 1 Robert Wright 1 Dan Sperber 1 Cornelius Castoriadis 1 Yann Moulier Boutang 1