Antonio Negri (1933–2023)

the only part of this book worth anything is the articulation of how the commons r only recovered thru exodus from capital along lines of flight, and how the specters of the common r corrupted by institutional forms of state-capital

but these analyses r underdeveloped, and r also just philosophically weaker versions of agambens notions of destituent inoperativity and the dispotif of sovereign capture (respectively); a lack of philosophical vigor and originality can b excused if there is some practical import, but ofc there is none to b found here… (more)

the most insightful part is definitely the first, about the primacy/universality of war and its consequences for networked insurgent resistance

the critique of democracy in terms of representation is obvious and also rather weakly presented, since negri still seems a little attached to his own ideal notion of democracy

the articulation of the common, beyond public/private, is extremely vague and poorly done; critically, there is no exploration of the relationship bw production of the truly common and the securitized regime under the civil war of empire

and ofc their elaboration of the universal identity of the multitude (and the singularity of its constituents) is somewhat pointless and incoherent… (more)