Each year an eruption of "leaderless" social movements leaves external observers and activists perplexed. Why have the movements, which address the needs and desires of so many, not been able to achieve lasting change? In Assembly, Michael Hardt and...
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Each year an eruption of "leaderless" social movements leaves external observers and activists perplexed. Why have the movements, which address the needs and desires of so many, not been able to achieve lasting change? In Assembly, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri analyze potential paths for creating a more democratic and just society Cover -- Assembly -- Copyright -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Dedication -- Preface -- PART I: THE LEADERSHIP PROBLEM -- Chapter 1. Where Have All the Leaders Gone? -- "Errors" of the Communards -- False assumption: critique of leadership = refusal of organization and institution -- Leaderless movements as symptoms of a historical shift -- Chapter 2. Strategy and Tactics of the Centaur -- Museum of revolutions past -- First call: strategy to the movements -- Tactical leadership -- Strategic movements -- Toward a new problem -- A party of movements? -- Chapter 3. Contra Rousseau -- or, Pour en finir avec la souveraineté -- Critique of representation -- Critique of constituent power -- Second call: invent nonsovereign institutions -- First response: ground political projects in social life -- Against the autonomy of the political -- Chapter 4. The Dark Mirror of Right-Wing Movements -- To restore the unity of the people -- Populism and racialized property -- The violence of religious identities -- Poverty as wealth -- Chapter 5. The Real Problem Lies Elsewhere -- Blow the dam! -- Second response: Seek the plural ontology of cooperative coalitions -- Third call: take power, but differently -- Marxism against Das Kapital -- PART II SOCIAL PRODUCTION -- What does "from below" mean? -- Chapter 6. How to Open Property to the Common -- A bundle of rights -- The social properties of labor -- Third response: the common is not property -- Fable of the bees -- or, passions of the common -- Security (against fear) -- Prosperity (against misery) -- Freedom (against death) -- Chapter 7. We, Machinic Subjects -- The relation of human and machine -- The changing composition of capital -- Fourth call: take back fixed capital ("this fixed capital being man himself") -- Machinic subjectivities -- Chapter 8. Weber in Reverse -- Weber's dream and Kafka's nightmare Sine ira et studio -- Digital Taylorism -- Fourth response: Smash the state -- The end of Mitteleuropa -- Chapter 9. Entrepreneurship of the Multitude -- How to become an entrepreneur -- Fifth call: entrepreneurship of the multitude -- Social production→social union→social strike -- Taking the word as translation -- PART III: FINANCIAL COMMAND AND NEOLIBERAL GOVERNANCE -- Chapter 10. Finance Captures Social Value -- Finance from above and from below -- Abstraction/extraction -- The many faces of extraction -- From social production to finance -- Logistics and infrastructure in the social factory -- Marxist debates 1 : Primitive accumulation -- Chapter 11. Money Institutionalizes a Social Relation -- What is money and how does it rule? -- Objektiver Geist -- On private property and its dematerialization -- Crises arise from below -- Marxist debates 2: crisis -- Chapter 12. Neoliberal Administration Out of Joint -- Neoliberal freedom -- Crisis points of neoliberal administration -- Emptying the public powers -- Fifth response: produce powerful subjectivities -- PART IV: NEW PRINCE -- Chapter 13. Political Realism -- Power comes second -- The common comes first -- General strike -- Extremism of the center -- Chapter 14. Impossible Reformism -- Fixing the system -- Instituting counterpowers -- Indignation in the fog of war -- Empire today -- Chapter 15. And Now What? -- A Hephaestus to arm the multitude -- A three-faced Dionysus to govern the common -- A Hermes to forge the coin of the common -- Chapter 16. Portolan -- Wealth -- Institution -- Organization -- Exhortatio -- Notes -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Part II -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Part III -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Part IV -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Acknowledgments Index
