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Michael Hardt

philosopher · 7 mentions across 3 readings

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Hardt, with collaborator Antonio Negri, develops a theory of globalism and biopolitics that critiques how contemporary planetary integration has erased autonomous worldviews while proposing an alternative: a self-conscious, collectively self-producing body of humanity. His work appears in these readings to ground arguments about how neoliberal globalization constrains political possibility, and his concept of a reimagined global commons becomes a foil against which thinkers like Foucault and Agamben's darker accounts of sovereign power and bare life can be measured. The excerpt suggests Hardt and Negri's utopianism—their vision of intentional polity formation—sits in productive tension with the pessimism structuring biopolitical theory elsewhere in the course.

Mentioned in 3 readings

Claire Colebrook

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

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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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Tiqqun

The Cybernetic Hypothesis (2001)

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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…It is thus hardly surprising that communications, the realization of a common ownership of impotent knowledge that cybernetics carries out, today authorizes the most advanced ideologues to speak of "cybernetic communism," as have Dan Sperbe…

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People mentioned in the same passages — sorted by co-occurrence weight.

Antonio Negri 7Giorgio Agamben 3Pierre Lévy 2Michel Foucault 2Gilbert Simondon 1Gilles Deleuze 1Felix Guattari 1Robert Musil 1Edmund Husserl 1Evan Thompson 1Jacques Derrida 1John Donne 1Robert Wright 1Dan Sperber 1

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