Jim Fleming on Mon, 7 Jul 2003 01:58:12 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> "Barbarous" Critique of Hardt & Negri |
"Barbarians: The Disordered Insurgence" A Critique of Hardt and Negri's Empire By Crisso and Odoteo [Translator's Preface] "Barbarians" by Crisso and Odoteo is a text of some importance for anarchists and anyone else who sincerely desires the destruction of this social world of exploitation and domination. It presents a devastating critique of a book that has become one of the most significant theoretical influences on a major part of the so-called anti-globalization movement, Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. When one reads these two texts together, two opposing ways of using language are exposed. Hardt and Negri use a language that is obviously meant to conceal at least as much as it reveals, and that should immediately tip one off to the recuperative nature of their text. Crisso and Odoteo, on the contrary, use direct language as sharp as a barbarian's sword to cut through the murky web of Hardt's and Negri's postmodern doublespeak to reveal the essentially anti-revolutionary core of their perspective. Continues at <http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/05/2019245> jim@autonomedia.org http://www.autonomedia.org # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net