Each year an eruption of leaderless social movements leaves external observers and activists perplexed. Why have the movements, which address the needs and desires of so many, not been able to achieve lasting change? In Assembly, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri analyze potential paths for creating a more democratic and just society.

• Preface


• Part I: The Leadership Problem


• Chapter 1: Where Have All the Leaders Gone?


• Chapter 2: Strategy and Tactics of the Centaur


• Chapter 3: Contra Rousseau, or, Pour en Finir avec la Souveraineté


• Chapter 4: The Dark Mirror of Right-Wing Movements


• Chapter 5: The Real Problem Lies Elsewhere


• Part II: The Social Production of the Multitude


• Chapter 6: How to Open Property to the Common


• Chapter 7: We, Machinic Subjects


• Chapter 8: Weber in Reverse


• Chapter 9: Entrepreneurship of the Multitude


• Part III: Financial Command and Neoliberal Governance


• Chapter 10: Finance Captures Social Value


• Chapter 11: Money Institutionalizes a Social Relation


• Chapter 12: Neoliberal Administration Out of Joint


• Part IV: New Prince


• Chapter 13: Political Realism


• Chapter 14: Impossible Reformism


• Chapter 15: And Now What?


• Chapter 16: Portolan


• Notes


• Index

Michael Hardt teaches at Duke University, where he is director of the Social Movements Lab.
Antonio Negri has taught at the University of Padua and University of Paris VIII.
They are best known for the Empire trilogy: Empire (2000), Multitude (2004), and Commonwealth (2009). They are also authors most recently of Declaration (2012).