.... They simultaneously raise critical questions about why some intimate and reproductive activities are considered “work” while others are not. These intersections are especially pertinent for understanding the construction of less-valued forms of immaterial labor that have been largely overlooked by Michael Hardt...

... it is not located anywhere.4 These paradoxes of modernity and their critical interruptions continue to haunt scholarly works that purport to move us far beyond modernity. Take the recent book Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Hardt...

... and aesthetic-­driven economy.2 In so doing, I establish it as an economy that produces multiple cultural constructions of masculinity, encompassing hegemonic and alternative forms of masculinity. Extending political theo- rists Michael Hardt...

... of happiness in life under capitalism. Emotional and Affective Labor as New Frontiers of Capital Accumulation Drawing on Maurizio Lazzarato’s work on immaterial labor,45 Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri define immaterial labor as “labor that creates...

... is a review of Hardt and Negri’s Empire, a work that has within a short time become an important text. Rofel is worried about Hardt and Negri’s imaginary of a singular universal, “the multitude,” within a total, irresistible, irreversible “empire...

... with Michael Hardt’s work and with feminist theorizations of work and labor.18 Hardt describes affective labor as a category of labor that builds on feminist critiques of gendered labor such as emotional labor, kin work, and care in both waged...

... the creation of forms of social life—that is, the production of new subjectivities (Hardt and Negri 2004 : 66). Foxconn workers, with whom I have been meeting in Shenzhen since 2013, are no exception. Since 2010, when fourteen young migrant workers jumped to their death at the Longhua plant in Shenzhen...

... rejection of neoliberal reason lies in moments when social imagination can utilize affectively charged images of work to give form to a virtual social without reproducing alienating conditions. Critical cultural studies should also attempt to track down these “specters of the common,” as Michael Hardt...

... them to perform affective labor as service workers. Michael Hardt defines affective labor as a form of immaterial labor that deals with human contact and interaction, such as forms of caretaking in the health Zhang ∣∣ One Life for Sale...

... and emotional — traits that employers characterize as foreign or un-­Japanese. Our examination of intimate industries expands upon Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s concept of immaterial labor, which they define as the production of service, cultural...

... Press . Hardt Michael Negri Antonio . 2009 . Commonwealth . Harvard University Press . Legg Stephen . 2007 . Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities . New Delhi : Blackwell . Lemke Thomas . 2003 . “ Rechtssubjekt oder Biomasse? Reflexionen zum...

... is an understanding that the process of signification, work done at the level of the signifier, now participates directly in the sphere of economic production, and produces what Marx, and later Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, called “social corporation.” In my...

... the classic loci of Marxist critique have become more visible as central to the operations of capitalism in the twenty- rst century. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri use the term immaterial labor to mark these relationships, but these labor...

... spreads among people and literally kills them. Grand theory in the style of Hardt and Ne- gri announces the advent of empire prematurely. It seems that the world is facing a renewed imperialism. Lu Beautiful Violence: War, Peace, Globalization...

...: La nouvelle Grande Transformation [Cognitive Capitalism: The New Great Transformation] . Paris : Editions Amsterdam . Negri Antonio . 1991 . The Savage Anomaly: The Power of Spinoza’s Metaphysics and Politics , translated by Hardt Michael . Minneapolis : University of Minneosta...

..., and the rise of the nation-state in Europe as succinctly as Michael Hardt and Anto- nio Negri in their analysis of how the precedence of law is deeply embedded in the very forms of its articulation, in particular the legal contract: “By tak- ing up...

... through a shifting context for “state spatiality” through strategies of verticality and encompassment. The emphasis on “governmentality” throughout this discussion serves as source and vehicle for mediation that also functions as a “sovereignty machine” (Hardt and Negri 2000 : 78–79) in that it stamps...

..., “Dreamwork: Cell Phone Novelists, Labor, and Politics in Contemporary Japan, Cultural Anthropology 28, no. 1 (2013): 44 – 64. See also Michael Hardt, “Affective Labor,” Boundary 2 26, no. 2 (1999): 89 – 100; Maurizio Lazzarato, “Immaterial...

... can work (when you want) in your own store by selling things or giving them away.31 All these discrete postcapitalist activities go toward what Matsumoto (two years before Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri used the phrase) calls “producing...

..., and to present the empire as a synthesis of these positions. In a certain sense, such diversification resembles the current situation in the US acad- emy, in which books such as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire make historical arguments...