Empire (hacktivismo)

[filipe ceppas]

Hello Wouter,
 
just a brief comments about your msg.

> 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.

I was being ironical, and I guess you realize that. It would be very strange
someone from a country like mine saying that life is becoming better
nowadays, unless he or she worked on the last administration. The present
one is the Working Party trying to face the worst economical and social
indicators on the last 40 years. I don't know if you know something about
the terrible consequences of this "new world order" in countries like mine,
but I can assure you that they do not seem so promising. Anyway, I believe
that the feelings you can have about life based on your perception of life's
condition under globalization will not overcome by itself the problems that
were identified and analysed by Critical Theory. Like any ideas, the FS's
ideas are open to criticism and new appraisal. I agree with you that we find
a lot of the "bad world" rethoric on FS literature, but it is only the
reedition of the FS jargon and it is not the best of FS original texts,
neither the best of its interpreters, in my opinion.

Best wishes,

Filipe.