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It was published by Harvard University Press in 2000 as a 478-page hardcover (ISBN 0674251210) and paperback (ISBN 0674006712).

The ideas first introduced in ''Empire'' (notably the concept of '', which was also written by Negri and Hardt.


OPENING EPIGRAPHS

:"Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right." — Ani DiFranco

:"Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and then it turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name." — William Morris


CONTENTS

  • ''Preface


  • PART 1: The Political Constitution of the Present

  • :1.1 World Order

:1.2 Biopolitical Production
:1.3 Alternatives within Empire

  • PART 2: Passages of Sovereignty

  • :2.1 Two Europe s, 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


  • PART 3: Passages of Production

  • :3.1 The Limits of Imperialism

:3.2 Disciplinary Governability
:3.3 Resistance , Crisis, Transformation
:3.4 Postmodern ization, or The Informatization of Production
:3.5 Mixed Constitution
:3.6 Capitalist Sovereignty, or Administering the Global Society of Control

  • PART 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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