Empire

Accounting and social movements: An exploration of critical accounting praxis

“…This distinction is important because, in contrast to the post-industrial writers definition of the working class as 'industrial workers' (Bell, 1999;Hardt & Negri, 2001), we see the definition of class as organisational rather than structural (Eagleton, 2011). Post-industrial theorists argue that the structural changes to the economy -the shift to services, the decline of traditional industries, and the rise of an information economy -has heralded the demise of the working-class as an agent of change.…”

Globalising Russia? The neoliberal/ nationalist two-step and the Russification of the West

“…Evidently there is a structural affinity between the transgressive, anti-essentialist and anti-foundationalist selfunderstandings of many of those involved in identity politics, and the 'ideology of the world market', which treats 'Circulation, mobility, diversity, and mixture' as basic to its operations. 27 But what are we to conclude from this? Apparently, that identity politics is discredited by association with capital.…”

Cultural Studies with Multitudes: Immanence and the Multicultural Commons

“…But this formal play is also what finally disrupts the Manicheism of their story, explicitly foregrounded in the bold image of the double-headed imperial eagle devouring its other self. 21 Left alone, the Manicheistic confrontation of Empire and multitude would steadily turn their narrative into a moral fable of good and evil, much like the ones told by Junior Bush around CNN's global campfire. The task of undermining the narrative Manicheism is given to the philosophical opposition between transcendence and immanence.…”

“…On the one hand, Hardt and Negri lay out what they call ''an ontology of the possible'' which critically reformulates the post-Foucauldian problematic of biopolitical power. 7 On the other hand, they propose a ''materialist telos'' for a common project of globalizing from below. The first part of this article therefore examines how their ontology of the possible is pleated together with their materialist telos.…”