By Jeff Stein In this brief response to Hardt & Negri (H&N), I wish to explore their repeated use of one key phrase: “the rights of the common.”[1] I aim to isolate those “rights” and subject them to the kind… Continue Reading
By John Finnegan The fifth iteration of our seminar series saw a rich discussion of what, exactly, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri in their books Commonwealth (2009) and Assembly (2017) are saying about the Law writ large. In their vision… Continue Reading
By Matthew Conroy I want to make an intervention on a method of praxis in the commons which Hardt and Negri seem to dance around but never invoke specifically which is Free Software. I hope to provide a basic sketch of… Continue Reading
Primary Readings Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, Commonwealth (Harvard, 2009), preface and chapters 1.1, 1.2, 6.2 and 6.3 Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, Assembly (Oxford, 2017), chapter 6 Secondary Readings Etienne Balibar, “The Expropriators are expropriated,” Paper presented at the International Conference: Marx’s Capital after… Continue Reading
Required books Bargu, Banu. Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons. Columbia University Press, 2016. Butler, Judith. Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly. Harvard University Press, 2015. El-Ariss, Tarek. Leaks, Hacks, and Scandal: Arab Culture in the Digital Age.… Continue Reading
The Praxis 13/13 seminars can be accessed virtually and you can fully participate in the series from a distance. Here are some ways to be part of the seminar even if you are not physically at Columbia University in New… Continue Reading