Empire

Michael Hardt

Antonio Negri

    Preface

    1. The Political Constitution of the Present

    1.1 World Order

    1.2 Biopolitical Production

    1.3 Alternatives within Empire

    2. Passages of Sovereignty

    2.1 Two Europes, Two Modernities

    2.2 Sovereignty of the Nation-State

    2.3 The Dialectics of Colonial Sovereignty

    2.4 Symptoms of Passage

    2.5 Network Power: U.S. Sovereignty and the New Empire

    2.6 Imperial Sovereignty

    Intermezzo: Counter-Empire

    3. Passages of Production

    3.1 The Limits of Imperialism

    3.2 Disciplinary Governability

    3.3 Resistance, Crisis, Transformation

    3.4 Postmodernization, or The Informatization of Production

    3.5 Mixed Constitution

    3.6 Capitalist Sovereignty, or Administering the Global Society of Control

    4. The Decline and Fall of Empire

    4.1 Virtualities

    4.2 Generation and Corruption

    4.3 The Multitude against Empire

    Notes

    Index

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Michael Hardt is Professor of Literature and Italian at Duke University.

Antonio Negri is an independent researcher and writer. He has been a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Paris and a Professor of Political Science at the University of Padua.