In a message dated 5/19/2002 9:34:23 AM Central Daylight Time, ognjen@mi2.hr
writes:


> MH: Well, OK. The book _is_ primarily an attempt of the analysis of
> contemporary form of power, and in that way it can in simply naming the
> forms of power today, which is I think the primary object of the book, it
> could be appreciated by people of many different ideological formations. We
>
> conceive it as a communist project, we present it as a communist project,
> thinking here of "communist" in the tradition, let's say of democratic
> globalization, the communist tradition that is not oriented towards
> formation of states and even of national control, but as a movement of
> increasing non-national democracy.


No offense to Michael Hardt, I appreciate his observations on empire.

But how does it relate to art or writing? "Hyper-communist" doesn't suffice,
nor do "cognitive communism" and "cultural communism."

Best,

Max Herman

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