... 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 Antonio Negri in their influential work on late global capitalism and empire. Moreover, these three sectors highlight the current significance of what the author calls “intimate surplus labor”—adapting Karl Marx's nineteenth-century concept of the production of profits for a range of capitalist...

... and Antonio Negri’s conceptualizations of empire and how it can be challenged, I then theorize how intimate representations can make critical social interventions. This context then allows us to delve into how both Keni Styles and Hoang Tan Nguyen...

... 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...

... the man who falls victim to her charms. Jôji also sees in Naomi the faces of other vamp actresses: “Gloria Swan- son’s eyes; Pola Negri’s wrath; Bebe Daniels’ suave affectation.”45 Gloria Shamoon ‚ The Modern Girl and the Vamp...

...: 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...-­flesh in which thought alone will not secure freedom and ordi- nary action is radically constrained. We can borrow a phrase from Negri to characterize this containment of signification and the body by vectors of computerized financialization...

... 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...

... possibility for our species, singularly repeatable until we accomplish our own extinction. Haver I A World of Corpses 5 Here, as Antonio Negri has been one of the few to notice, is where clas...

... 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...

... and Antonio Negri ( 2009 : 153) have described the concepts of shared existence buried under capitalism's relentless privatization of the social. In such efforts, flights of fancy can often outpace critical realism. This potentiality will orient my investigation into the mediated responses to postmillennial...

... 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...

... and Related Dates (London: Verso, 2002); Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999); Antonio Negri, with Anne Dufourmantelle, Negri on Negri, trans. M. B. DeBevoise (New York: Routledge...

.... To reinforce her point, Shamoon makes clear how many avatars were available to Tani- zaki, including Theda Bara, Mary Pickford, Annette Kellerman, Pina Menichelli, Paola Negri, and Geraldine Farrar among others. The con- clusion...

..., 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...

.... Nevertheless, young Chinese appear to be actively taking advantage of the newly emerging public sphere to express themselves and to find self-­worth. However, the Chen Xiao phenomenon challenges Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s...

... interaction (how to behave at work, how to be attractive, how to handle rejection, how to use a computer, what is beautiful), which feed both the market and capitalist production generally. This constant retooling facil- itates what Antonio Negri calls...

... 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...