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Michael Hardt - Empire, 20 Years On

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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Is Unoriginality a Fault?

I think that's what Tony and I've done for quite a long time. The movements are doing this, describing it this way in terms of transversality or articulation,. which I like better in some ways but it's really just a way of trying to think with the accomplishments and problems facing the movements themselves. So originality doesn't necessarily have to be a fault. There is a certain sense in which articulating and elaborating adequate ideas boost everyone's power, right? And we have to sort of conjure up means of countering that by finding new theories of struggle against Empire.

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