Assembly by Hardt, Michael -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover page Halftitle page Series page Title page Copyright page Epigraph Contents Dedication page 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 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

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

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

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