[Nettime-bold] RE: [Reader-list] New York Times, Negri-hardt book via Nettime

[Greg Wise <Greg.Wise@asu.edu>]

I just got the book, "Empire," recently, but have had too many other things
on my plate so I haven't had a chance to read it yet. But geert's comments
(below) reminded me of Nick Dyer-Witheford's "Cyber-Marx: Cycles and
Circuits of Struggle in High-Technology Capitalism" (1999, University of
Illinois Press) which addresses many these concerns (new media, activists
and IT, etc.) from the perspective of autonomist marxism, Negri
specifically. Excellent book. Sounds like it might make a good companion
piece when reading/teaching "Empire".

Greg 

J. Macgregor Wise
Arizona State University West

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ravi Sundaram [mailto:ravis@sarai.net]
> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 6:16 AM
> To: reader-list@sarai.net
> Subject: [Reader-list] New York Times, Negri-hardt book via Nettime
> 
> 
> This is an article from the New York Times which Geert posted 
> on Nettime,
> with comments. I have not read the book yet (the 
> hardback-only prices made
> me choke), but notice how the NYT article carefully focuses on Hardt's
> professional career rather than Negri's own contribution. 
> (ravi)
> ---------------------------
> 
> [The Negri/Hardt Empire book is making rounds. Perhaps time 
> for an online
> version? Does anyone about lengthy debate on the Net 
> somewhere? Even though
> I liked reading it, I think it is very much an pre-1989 book 
> which carefully
> avoids theorizing the fall of communism and what the real 
> existing socialism
> was actually like. The same can be said of a lack in basic 
> media theory,
> Internet and new media use by artists and activists. But for 
> those who like
> Catholic utopianism in gloomy times of 'globalization' there 
> is a lot of
> salvation to be found in Empire. /geert]
> 
> [NYT]
> July 7, 2001
> What Is The Next Big Idea? Buzz Is Growing for 'Empire'
> By EMILY EAKIN
>
> 


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