Doug Henwood wrote:
> [Negri speaking]
> What must be done? "Exodus", withdraw from the
> debate, desert, desert to the end: work, war, knowledge. That means
> building up another life which is not that of these 'messieurs', the
> talibans of the dollar and the talibans of oil.
It's this proposition, which derives from nothing and leads to nothing, which makes me think that _Empire_ is too frivolous to be worth a critique. Actually, Doug made exactly the same critique of it (on Pen-L I think). I forget his exact words, but at the end of his post he spoke of a lack of concreteness in the sections of _Empire_ proposing what to do. I don't see how that lack of concreteness can conceivably be remedied. It wasn't a stylistic fault in the book; it was an unfillable hole in the entire worldview from which the book flowed. And it is impossible (as well as rather silly) to critique an absence.
Carrol