Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire is a book by autonomous Marxist philosophers Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt that was published in 2004. It is the second installment of a "trilogy", also comprising Empire (2000) and Commonwealth (2009).
Summary
Multitude is divided into three sections: "War," which addresses the current "global civil war";Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt. Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire. Penguin Books. 2009. Pg. 4. Pg. 100. "Multitude," which elucidates the "multitude" as an "active social subject, which acts on the basis of what the singularities share in common"; and, "Democracy," which critiques traditional forms of political representation and gestures toward alternatives.
Multitude addresses these issues and elaborates on the assertion, in the Preface to Empire, that:
"The creative forces of the multitude that sustain Empire are also capable of autonomously constructing a counter-Empire, an alternative political organization of global flows and exchanges."Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt. Empire. Harvard University Press. 2000. Pg 15.
Notes
Further reading Welsh, John. (2016) The shadow: alter-visibility in an empire of the seen. Distinktion 17(1): 57-77. .
External links
Review of Multitude, by Eric Mason The village voice review, by John Giuffo A deconstructive reading of Multitude "The Collaborator and the Multitude: An Interview with Michael Hardt" – Hardt talks about Multitude, the sequel to Empire. (2004) Timothy Rayner (2005). Refiguring the multitude: From exodus to the production of norms. Radical Philosophy 131.