Today, Empire no longer has an outside: it no longer tolerates\nrealities external to itself. Hence every war cannot but be a civil\nwar, an internal battle, a domestic strife. But if the enemy is\nalways within, militarization is part and parcel of normalization\nand every war necessarily appears as a policing operation. And yet\nhas the sun really set on the old materialist dream of transforming\nsocial conflict into the beginnings of liberation? In the cracks of\nEmpire one can discern an emergent capacity to remould the world.\nThe anti-Empire is represented by the multitude, the collection of\nimpassioned and desiring individuals whose potential for action\noffers the best hope for a better world.In this book Antonio Negri\nexplains the key concepts and methods which he and Michael Hardt\nhave used to analyse Empire and the new forms of power and\ncounter-power that are shaping and reshaping our world today.\nThrough five introductory lectures and several supporting texts\nNegri constructs a democratic discourse on globalization, renews\nthe premises of a materialist analysis of social and political life\nand offers some glimpses of the future.

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