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Posts Tagged ‘Hardt & Negri’

Belief in expired wor(l)ds, & in wor(l)ds to come…

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, tagged , , , , on March 14, 2011 | 12 Comments »

It riles me up when intelligent people whose work I respect a lot say ill-considered, if not outright indefensible, things. Jodi Dean’s post arguing that communism “worked” strikes me as such a thing. I’ve provided a lengthy counter-argument on her blog, the gist of which is that the political projects that were actually carried out […]

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Copenhagen: changing the climate of democracy

Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , on December 17, 2009 | 7 Comments »

What makes COP-15 a turning point is that a new set of connections are being forged in the heat of the confrontation of active citizens from around the world with the reality of global political-economic power structures. Paul Hawken’s “largest movement in the world,” the movement of movements made up of environmental, social justice, and indigenous rights civil society organizations — which isn’t a movement yet until it begins to move and act in a coordinated manner — and Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s “multitude” — the multiple and internally differentiated force that is, or that can become, capable of acting in common toward a global democracy — are both being born today, in the stark meeting of global justice activism with ecological reality.

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Ostrom’s Nobel, the commons, & blog flow

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , on October 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Several days of silence calls for at least a whimper of sound here… I’ve been on the road (Washington, DC, Boston, and tomorrow Montreal) and writing for crisp deadlines in amidst the travel. And I’m still uncertain as to whether it’s better to post little snippets just to keep the flow coming to your blog […]

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