New Lines of Alliance, New Spaces of Liberty

Prefiguring his collaboration with Michael Hardt, Negri and Guattari enact a singular hybridization of political and philosophical traditions, bringing together psychiatry, political analysis, semiotics, aesthetics, and philosophy. Against the workings of an increasingly integrated world capitalism, they raise the banners of singularity, autonomy, and freedom to search out new routes for subversion.

Table of Contents:

Communists Like Us;

The Revolution Began in 1968;

The Reaction of the 1970s: No Future;

The Revolution Continues;

The New Alliance;

Think and Live in Another Way, a postscript by Negri (from 1990), and two appendices

Originally published in 1990, this newly expanded edition includes previously untranslated materials and a new introduction by Matteo Mandarini.

From the text: As it has always been in the history of capital, this renovation of the forms of command by Integrated World Capitalism goes hand in hand with a redefinition of the ways surplus value is extracted (computerization of the work process, spread of social control through mass media, subjective integration by governmental apparatuses, etc...).