Empire (hacktivismo)

[Wouter Kusters]

>It seems that Empire is a real nice place to raise our kids up... 

Yes, indeed, it may be. I know that in Frankfurter school lines of thought the immense undeniable assumption and deep presupposition is that our world is "bad". However, when reading about Empire in Hardt & Negri, I also often wondered whether it is so bad after all, to live in Empire. Of course, that is cursing in the Frankfurter Church of Anger.

>But I didn't get the differences between Negri & Hardt's
>Empire description and the world famous "globalization" business... Or
>Empire is just another word for it? 

Yes, it is. It is globalisation in the extreme. It is not the globalisation of some territorial power, but it is globalisation in itself, in which there is no longer any geographical centre of power. In terms of Hardt & Negri (&Deleuze) Empire is deterritorialised Imperialism.

WouterK