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Preoccupying: Michael Hardt. Michael Hardt has combined his role as Professor of Literature and Italian at Duke University with political writings and activism. Together with the Italian Marxist Antonio Negri, he has produced an influential critique of our present time. Their trilogy of books – titled “Empire”, “Multitude”, and “Commonwealth” – have been described by Slavoj Zizek as a “Communist manifesto for the 21st Century” The Occupied Times: In your recent work, Declaration, you and Professor Negri identified four political archetypes or ‘paradigmatic subjectivities’, as you call them, that you believe will be crucial to any political change.

These are: the indebted, the represented, the mediatised and the securitised. In looking at the indebted, how can we transform what starts as consciousness-raising about the importance of ‘the debtor’ as a subject under post-Fordist capitalism, into a more viable means to challenge those who make us the indebted? We by no means consider our short list to be exhaustive. 1Y5kr9YVdx. Ancestors and Angels. Anonymous (AnonyOps) en Twitter... Injustice. Stephane Hessel - GET ANGRY! (Excellent English Translation of INDIGNEZ-VOUS!) The Political Notebook.