EmpireBy Antonio; Hardt, Michael Negri
- Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
- Number Of Pages: 560
- Publication Date: 2001
- ISBN-10 / ASIN: 2912969166
- ISBN-13 / EAN: 9782912969163
- Binding: Paperback
Book Descriptions
Empire, as a new postmodern paradigm, differing in form and extent from previous manifestations, is thoroughly described in this work. It is no longer a nation-state project, concerned with individual state centered territorial imperatives; instead Empire has become Global in dimension, infused by technological rapidity, subsuming cultures, supranational, and maintaining and extending geographic perimeter by replicating its values in both the individual person and the multitude. Empire is intolerant of exception, and acts to police exceptional and threatening instances with coalitions of force on the international level, and internal nation-state force at local levels. Nations may be complicit in the new Paradigm of Empire, but they do not control it. In fact, Empire is now decentralized, or one may say the central emmanation of Imperial power modulates as need requires for its maintainence and progression. The values postmodern Empire imposes are plastic, not inherent, in this adaptive manner the imposition of Global value structures can modulate, thereby subsuming further the individual and composit populations of the geography within its project. It is a work in progress, not fully realized, yet stil imposing penalty via exclusion from itself and supranational legal statute. Empire suppresses the individual and unusual, in favor of a flat manageable consistancy.
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