"multitude is an open and expansive project"
Antonio Negri was an Italian political philosopher known as one of the most prominent theorists of autonomism, as well as for his co-authorship of Empire with Michael Hardt. Born in Padua, Italy, Negri became a professor of political philosophy at the University of Padua, where he taught state and constitutional theory. Negri founded the Potere Operaio group in 1969 and was a leading member of Aut
"Every identity, such (third) critics say, even the multitude, must be defined by its remained, those outside of it, call them excluded, the abject, or the subaltern. … There can certainly be points or nodes outside a network but none are necessarily outside. Its boundaries are indefinite and open. … None is necessarily excluded but this inclusion is not guaranteed: the expansion of the common is a practical, political manner. (226)"
Antonio Negri"The refusal of work and authority, or really the refusal of voluntary servitude, is the beginning of liberatory politics."
Antonio Negri"It is a commonplace of the classical literature on Empire, from Polybius to Montesquieu and Gibbon, that Empire is from its inception decadent and corrupt."
Antonio Negri"[The] fact of being within capital and sustaining capital is what defines the proletariat as a class."
Antonio Negri"Reality and history, however, are not dialectical, and no idealist rhetorical gymnastics can make them conform to the dialect."
Antonio Negri"Philosophy is not the owl of Minerva that takes flight after history has been realized in order to celebrate its happy ending; rather, philosophy is subjective proposition, desire, and praxis that are applied to the event."
Antonio Negri