Migrant multitudes, western transcendence and the politics of creativity

This essay undertakes an immanent critique of Hardt and Negri's theoretical articulation in Empire. Their evasion of postcolonial translation and ethnographic description results in a specific blindness inseparable from their theoretical insight. Empire seeks to establish the case for a direct confrontation with global capital. Is not Hardt and Negri's distrust of local struggles, their inability to conceive how the defense of the local or even of national sovereignty might in specific circumstances itself be a route to “democratic globalization” only a consequence of a retreat into transcendence which surreptitiously privileges the conditions of struggle in the United States

Aesthetics · Articulation (sociology · Democracy · Empire · Epistemology · Globalization · Id, ego and super-ego · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Sovereignty · Transcendence (philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Psychology