Empire

This text identifies a radical shift in concepts that form the philosophical basis of modern politics, concepts such as sovereignty, nation and people - and links this philosophical transformation to cultural and economic changes in postmodern society.

They also show how the power of transnational corporations and the increasing predominance of post-industrial forms of labour and production help to define the new imperial global order. More than analysis, "Empire" is also an utopian work of political philosophy, a new Communist Manifesto. Looking beyond the regimes of exploitation and control that characterise today's world order, it seeks an alternative political paradigm - the basis for a truly democratic global society.

Preface

1. The Political Constitution of the Present

1.1 World Order

1.2 Biopolitical Production

1.3 Alternatives within Empire

2. Passages of Sovereignty

2.1 Two Europes, Two Modernities

2.2 Sovereignty of the Nation-State

2.3 The Dialectics of Colonial Sovereignty

2.4 Symptoms of Passage

2.5 Network Power: U.S. Sovereignty and the New Empire

2.6 Imperial Sovereignty

Intermezzo: Counter-Empire

3. Passages of Production

3.1 The Limits of Imperialism

3.2 Disciplinary Governability

3.3 Resistance, Crisis, Transformation

3.4 Postmodernization, or The Informatization of Production

3.5 Mixed Constitution

3.6 Capitalist Sovereignty, or Administering the Global Society of Control

4. The Decline and Fall of Empire

4.1 Virtualities

4.2 Generation and Corruption

4.3 The Multitude against Empire

Notes

Index