Monday, August 27, 2007

Negri on the function of Multitudes


A brief quote from Antonio Negri's article in Constituent Imagination:

Today, democracy must be extedended into the relations between multitudes, and must construct new social relations and a new idea of rights in this way. We are not referring here to the abolition of rights, but rather to new juridical forms capable of establishing norms guided by the three principles described above (networks, the common, and freedom) There must be sanctions against those who wish to re-establish command and introduce criteria of property over or against the network, blocking its access or controlling its nodes. At the same time, there must also be sanctions against those who create technological and/or judicial tools to obstruct the circulation of knowledge and the great 'commonality' that can feed production and life.


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