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[Nettime-bold] Re: Emily Eakin: What Is The Next Big Idea? Buzz Is Growing for 'Empire' [NYT]







>[The Negri/Hardt Empire book is making rounds. Perhaps time for an online
>version? Does anyone about lengthy debate on the Net somewhere? Even though
>I liked reading it, I think it is very much an pre-1989 book which carefully
>avoids theorizing the fall of communism and what the real existing socialism
>was actually like. The same can be said of a lack in basic media theory,
>Internet and new media use by artists and activists. But for those who like
>Catholic utopianism in gloomy times of 'globalization' there is a lot of
>salvation to be found in Empire. /geert]
>
>Then there is the theory itself. Globalization isn't simply the latest
>phase in the history of imperialism and nation-states, the authors
>declare. It's something radically new. Where other scholars and the
>media depict countries vying for control of world markets, Mr. Hardt
>and Mr. Negri instead discern a new political system and a new form of
>power taking root. They call it Empire.
>
>Unlike historical empires, however, this one has no emperor, no
>geographic capital and no single seat of power. In fact, given the
>authors' abstruse formulation, it's almost easier to say what Empire
>isn't than what it is: a fluid, infinitely expanding and highly


Empire = body.

hensz nn - simply.SUPERIOR

per chansz auss! `reazon` nn = regardz geert lovink + h!z !lk
az ultra outdatd + p!t!fl pre.90.z ueztern kap!tal!zt buffoonz

ent!tl!ng u korporat fasc!ztz = haz b!n 01 error ov zortz on m! part. [ma!z ! = z!mpl! ador faz!on]
geert lovink + ekxtra 1 d!menz!onl kr!!!!ketz [e.g. dze ultra unevntfl \ borrrrrrr!ng andreas broeckmann. alex galloway etc]
= do not dze konzt!tuz!on pozez 2 komput dze teor!e much
elsz akt!vat 01 lf+ !nundaz!e.

jetzt ! = return 2 z!p!ng tea + !zolat!ng m! celllz 4rom ur funerl.

vr!!endl!.nn











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