Main entry:

Negri, Antonio, 1933-

Title & Author:

The porcelain workshop : for a new grammar of politics / Antonio Negri ; translated by Noura Wedell.

Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : Semiotext(e), [2008]
©2008

Description:

173 pages ; 23 cm

Series:

Semiotext(e) foreign agents series

Notes:
Published in French in 2006 under the title: Fabrique de porcelaine.
Modern and postmodern: the Caesura -- The work of the multitude and the biopolitical fabric -- Between globalization and exodus: peace and war -- Beyond private and public: the common -- Postmodern critique as marginal resistance -- Difference and resistance: from the postmodern Caesura to the ontological constitution of what is to come (a-venir) -- From the right to resistance to constituent power -- Government and governance: for a critique of "forms of government" -- Decision and organization -- The time of common freedom.
Translated from the French.

Summary:

"In 2004 and 2005, Antonio Negri held ten workshops at the College International de Philosophie in Paris to formulate a new political grammar of the postmodern. Postmodernity, Negri suggests, can be described as a "porcelain workshop": a delicate and fragile construction that could be destroyed through one clumsy act. Looking across twentieth-century history, Negri warns that our inability to anticipate future developments has already placed coming generations in serious jeopardy. In the impassioned debates recounted in this book, Antonio Negri attempts to describe the formation of an alternative political horizon and looks for a way to define the practices and modes of expression that democracy could take."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

1584350563 (pbk.)
9781584350569 (pbk.)

Subject:

Political science Philosophy.
Postmodernism Political aspects.
Democracy Philosophy.
Postmodernisme Aspect politique.
Demokratie
Politische Philosophie
Postmoderne
Postmodernism.
Civilization Philosophy.
Politisk filosofi.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Wedell, Noura, translator.
Wedell, Noura.
Semiotext(e) foreign agents series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 259344
Call No.: BIB 190269
Status: Available