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Showing posts with label A. (subjects)-Social Sciences-Political Science-(Michael Hardt). Show all posts

2017-02-04

Michael Hardt On Revolution And Democracy


source: Eidos84    2010年12月2日
'Michael Hardt On Revolution and Democracy'. For Hardt, 'revolution requires a transformation in human nature so that people are capable of democracy'. However, he opposes any dialectical notions of this transformation, and argues instead that the achievement of true democracy, and the concomitant transformation of human nature, must be enacted 'positively'; that is, where democracy is engaged in consciously, and from the outset, rather than arising from a dialectical synthesis of opposites (for instance, Lenin would claim that true democracy can only arise subsequent to the revolution and the installation of the 'dictatorship of the proletariat'). For Hardt, revolution and the transformation of human nature will require 'instigating utopia every day'.

2016-09-12

Michael Hardt On 'Common Wealth' (1-10)

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source: Eidos84    2010年10月23日
What are the prospects for social and political transformation in the age of Empire, and the possibilities of creating alternatives within and beyond contemporary power configurations? Author Michael Hardt discusses the political challenges of today, in relation to the book "Common Wealth" (co-authored with Antonio Negri).

2016-03-24

Michael Hardt. The Common Wealth in a Just World. 2010 (1-11)

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source: European Graduate School    2010年5月21日
http://www.egs.edu/ Michael Hardt speaking about about the common wealth, the duality of the common ground and the creative commons, capitalism, the need for a new political reality, the new world order and its terms. Michael Hardt lecturing about a process of transformation, the rise of a network power, the role of information, association and affects, property and labor conditions, the definition of time, the working day, precarious work, and the modes of affection in a lecture entitled "The Common Wealth / Was wir in einer gerechteren Welt gemeinsam besitzen können" at the Schaubühne Berlin. A Streitgespräch led by journalist Carolin Emcke at the Schaubühne in Berlin, Germany, March 21, 2010. Michael Hardt.

Michael Hardt. Michael Hardt, born 1960 is an American literary theorist and political philosopher based at Duke University. Michael Hardt's recent writings deal primarily with the political, legal, economic, and social aspects of globalization. Perhaps his most famous work is Empire, a book about the current global power structure, written with Antonio Negri. The sequel to Empire, called Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, describes the possible democratic alternatives to that structure, was released in August, 2004, and details the idea of the multitude (which Michael Hardt and Negri initially elaborated in Empire) as the potential site of a global democratic movement. Many of Michael Hardts seminars focus on the work of important figures in the history of critical theory and political theory, such as Marx, Jefferson, Gramsci, Foucault, Deleuze, and Guattari.
Sometimes referred to as the "Communist Manifesto of the 21st Century", Empire proposes that the forces of current class oppression, namely - corporate globalization and commodification of services (or "production of affects") have the potential to fuel social change of unprecedented dimensions.
Born in Washington DC, Michael Hardt attended Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, Maryland. He studied engineering at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania from 1978 to 1983. In college during the 1970s energy crisis, Michael Hardt began to take an interest in alternative energy sources. Talking about his college politics, Michael Hardt said, "I thought that doing alternative energy engineering for third world countries would be a way of doing politics that would get out of all this campus political posing that I hated."

2015-06-24

Slavoj Žižek. Communist Absconditus. 2012


source: European Graduate School    2012年7月24日
http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Žižek talking about the European debt crisis, the revolutions of 2011, and where things stand now. In this lecture Slavoj Žižek discusses the concepts of exploitation, unemployment, the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street in relationship to Yanis Varoufakis's "Global Minotaur," Keynesianism, deficits, Paul Volker, Fredric Jameson, surplus value, recognition, T.J. Clark, Basic Income, Philippe van Parijs, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, Alain Badiou, Walter Benjamin, Karl Marx, Hegel focusing on Blaise Pascal, miracles, Deus Absconditus, Julian Assange, Kant, partial objects, contractual relationships and Adam Kotsko. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2012. Slavoj Žižek.

2015-03-31

Michael Hardt. The Leadership Problem. 2014


source: European Graduate School  2015年1月27日
http://www.egs.edu/ Michael Hardt, Philosopher, talking about the question of leadership and organization in recent uprisings and political movements, cycles of struggle, democracy, the Arab Spring, Occupy, the commons, the multitude, counter-power. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2014. Michael Hardt.