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Empire

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$33.50 • £29.95 • €30.95

ISBN 9780674006713

Publication Date: 09/15/2001

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496 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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  • 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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