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The Empire Strikes Back: On Hardt and Negri

The Empire Strikes Back: On Hardt and Negri Maria Turchetto The Empire Strikes Back: On Hardt and Negri A postmodern book The French edition of Empire opens with the statement that this book is ‘an attempt to write a new “Commu- nist Manifesto” for our times’. The same claim is repeated in the feature dedicated to the subject of the POLITICAL MANIFESTO 1 (I call ‘features’ those short chapters appearing in italics throughout the book). Frankly, I’m not totally clear as to why Empire should aspire to belong to the genre of the ‘manifesto’ when, as a matter of fact, it takes the form of a new literary genre – one which is much more in tune with our times. A ‘manifesto’ – be it political, artistic or philosophical – is, by deŽnition, brief, original and radical. Empire is something quite different; in fact, it’s the opposite of a manifesto. To start with, it is certainly not brief; it is a ‘mam- moth’ of a book, almost 500 pages long. Absit iniuria verbis : to be fair, Marx’s Capital is a ‘mammoth’ work too, in fact much more so; a work which has shaped history (and not only the history of thought), perhaps to an even http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Historical Materialism Brill

The Empire Strikes Back: On Hardt and Negri

Turchetto, Maria
Historical Materialism , Volume 11 (1): 23 – Jan 1, 2003
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© 2003 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Maria Turchetto The Empire Strikes Back: On Hardt and Negri A postmodern book The French edition of Empire opens with the statement that this book is ‘an attempt to write a new “Commu- nist Manifesto” for our times’. The same claim is repeated in the feature dedicated to the subject of the POLITICAL MANIFESTO 1 (I call ‘features’ those short chapters appearing in italics throughout the book). Frankly, I’m not totally clear as to why Empire should aspire to belong to the genre of the ‘manifesto’ when, as a matter of fact, it takes the form of a new literary genre – one which is much more in tune with our times. A ‘manifesto’ – be it political, artistic or philosophical – is, by deŽnition, brief, original and radical. Empire is something quite different; in fact, it’s the opposite of a manifesto. To start with, it is certainly not brief; it is a ‘mam- moth’ of a book, almost 500 pages long. Absit iniuria verbis : to be fair, Marx’s Capital is a ‘mammoth’ work too, in fact much more so; a work which has shaped history (and not only the history of thought), perhaps to an even

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