What About the Dark Side of Multitude?

摘要

The books authored by Michel Hardt and Toni Negri during the first decade of the new century may be defined as a Trilogy, and the number three is meaningful for those who know the history of modern philosophy. The Trilogy has been a master stroke by the point of view of political action and strategy. The authors have been able to accomplish a sort of redefinition of the theoretical field of contemporary philosophy, refraining the relation between social communication, subjectivity, and global power, and have succeeded in changing the very perception of the political framework after the huge transformations resulting from fall of the Soviet system, creation of the Internet, and globalization of capitalist economy. Thanks to the conceptualization they have produced in these three books, Hardt and Negri reassessed the space of critical and dissident thought, while asserting the historical legitimacy of rebellion on new foundations, all the while reframing social autonomy in a totally new perspective.