[lbo-talk] Hardt/Negri's Commonwealth as reviewed in WSJ

[Dennis Claxton]

I bought the October issue of Artforum because it has a feature on 
J.G. Ballard.  I noticed later it also has excerpts from Commonwealth.

In the Michaels thread there was discussion the other day about who 
his audience is.  Doug mentioned the new Dem base made up of liberals 
living in the suburbs and in gentrified urban areas who don't like 
Republicans but don't like unions either.  I'd guess there's a lot of 
Artforum subscribers in that crowd.

http://artforum.com/inprint/issue=200908&id=23741

October 2009

ON THE COMMONS

This month, Harvard University Press unveils Commonwealth, the latest 
book by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, whose Empire (2000) and 
Multitude (2004) have, arguably, been the dominant works of political 
philosophy of the new century. In its October issue, Artforum 
presents two extended excerpts from the much-anticipated final volume 
of the Empire trilogy in advance of its arrival in bookstores. 
Curator Okwui Enwezor sets the stage, with a discussion of Hardt and 
Negri's profound if diffuse impact on artistic practice and on the 
art world more broadly. Enwezor's introduction has been reproduced 
below. For excerpts from Commonwealth, pick up the October issue of Artforum.