Çokluk

When Hardt and Negri's Empire was published, opposition forces around the world were just beginning to break the inertia of many years and question this new form of global domination. In the book, the authors argued that the term imperialism no longer describes the present day, but rather that there is a pervasive imperial heavyweight that includes supranational institutions, companies, and NGOs as well as nation-states; They said that national and local resistance was ineffective against this new form of sovereignty and proposed a new internationalism. Multitude, which is a complement to Empire, explains many social actions and the global state of permanent war they challenge, where this suggestion has been tested in practice, from Seattle to the Iraq War protests, and draws a perspective of struggle.

We now live in a state of perpetual global war, whose enemy and scope are uncertain. This situation spread to all areas of life and paved the way for democracy to be suspended indefinitely. The lines of the new topography of exploitation and economic hierarchy established on the basis of this war are becoming clear beyond national borders: We are entering a global apartheid order; The wealth of the few continues thanks to the labor and poverty of the majority. However, as the wave of resistance in recent years has shown, globalization has also given life to countless forms of commonality stretching across countries and continents. Although different forms of labor preserve their singularity, they develop common ground together, and these become the conditions for all types of production. Singularities interact on the basis of this common denominator, coming together without giving up their differences. Multitude is the subjectivity that arises from this dynamic of singularity and commonality. The multitude is neither a homogeneous whole like the "people" nor a fragmented structure like the "masses". The movement of singularities is now a constant threat to global capitalist hierarchies. They break through barriers, dig connecting tunnels that undermine walls; At every intersection of creativity lines, social subjectivities become more hybrid and variegated, moving away from the standardizing power of control. They cease to be identities and become singularities. Languages interacting and mixing create not a single and unified language, but a common power in the heart of a multiplicity of singularities. To understand this new network-type organization, the authors draw a genealogy from the centralized organizations of the past, to guerrilla movements, to the struggle for alternative globalization, and show how forms of organization are becoming increasingly democratic and open.

You cannot subjugate the wind, the sea and the land: the multitude constantly slips from the hands of imperial sovereignty, because it cannot be completely confined within the doctrinal, hierarchical and disciplinary organs of a political structure. For the first time in history, absolute democracy has become possible, it is now possible to destroy all forms of sovereignty. Realizing this opportunity is the project of the multitude...



Number of Pages: 382


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Details Publications

Language Turkish