American political theorist who collaborated with Antonio Negri on the Empire trilogy — arguing that sovereignty has shifted from the nation-state to a decentered network (Empire) and that resistance comes from the multitude.
Empire: sovereignty is no longer located in nation-states but in a networked imperial form with no center; resistance is the multitude — the distributed non-homogeneous mass of living labor. Labor has become increasingly biopolitical — it produces not just commodities but social life itself.
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