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

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Fri Oct 9 10:29:52 PDT 2009


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.



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