Since its publciation, Hardt and Negri’s Empire has come to dominate the academic world, stimulating debate and discussion throughout the humanities, social sciences, and into the mainstream media. Empire’s New Clothes addresses Empire in all its complexity, that is as a work of legal and political theory that diagnoses our era and urges liberatory action. More precisely, it will set the outlines of the debate as it is emerging around the claims of Empire.
This collection of critical responses to Empire was first discussed in conversations emerging from panels organized on Empire and on law and globalization at the Law and Society Association Annual Meetings held in Budapest, Hungary, in July of 2001, and at the Critical Legal Conference held at the University of Kent in Canterbury, Great Britain, in early September 2001 (where Antonio Negri took questions via video hookup from Italy). Hence the formation of this collection on Empire crossed the event of September 11.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Postmodern Republicanism, Paul A.Passavant
Immanence 1. Can Immanence Explain Social Struggles?, Ernesto Laclau
Transcendence 2. The Immanence of Empire, Peter Fitzpatrick
Market 3. On Divine Markets and the Problem of Justice: Empire as Theodicy, Bill Maurer
Law 4. Legal Imperialism: Empire’s Invisible Hand?, Ruth Buchanan and Sundhya Pahuja
Representation 5. From Empire’s Law to the Multitude’s Rights: Law, Representation, Revolution, Paul A. Passavant
Sovereignty 6. Representing the International: Sovereignty after
Modernity?, Mark Laffey and Jutta Weldes
Global 7. Africa’s Ambiguous Relation to Empire and Empire, Kevin C.Dunn
Intermezzo
The Theory & Event Interview: Sovereignty, Multitudes, Absolute Democracy: A Discussion between Michael Hardt and Thomas L.Dumm about Hardt’s and Negri’s Empire
Space 8. The Repositioning of Citizenship: Emergent Subjects and Spaces for Politics, Saskia Sassen
Place 9. The Irrepressible Lightness and Joy of Being Green: Empire and Environmentalism, William Chaloupka
Migration 10. Smooth Politics, Malcolm Bull
Generation 11. Taking the Millennialist Pulse of Empire’s Multitude: A Genealogical Feminist Diagnosis, Lee Quinby
Capitalism 12. The Ideology of the Empire and Its Traps, Slavoj Žižek
Communication 13. The Networked Empire: Communicative Capitalism and the Hope for Politics, Jodi Dean
Revolution 14. The Myth of the Multitude, Kam Shapiro
Event 15. Representation and the Event, Paul A. Passavant and Jodi Dean