The Politics of Empire - An Interview with Antonio Negri

I believe that democracy, as a revolutionary design of re-appropriation of power and exercise of the latter directly from below, as a scheme crossing genres and colours, which is able to stand out on a global and trans-national basis, is a totally re-proposable ideal. All the more since today’s productive forms today lead more and more dramatically on one side towards a singularisation of work and activity, and on the other, towards what is a relational, affective and linguistic community.

Hence we see a ripening material basis for a new – and I underline this three times – democracy which is truly absolute. more...