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Monthly Archives: September 2005

Form of Life II

I spoke to Michael Hardt the other night about his and Negri’s use of ‘form of life’ throughout Multitude. As I suspected, the phrase more or less slips into their discourse. I asked Hardt if it was a theoretical concept used in a larger discussion, something they intend to develop, or something that merely happened [...]

Forms of Life?

During the past few months, I’ve been reading Hardt & Negri, Agamben and Virno. They all use the phrase “forms of life”. Agamben, in Means Without End, titles the first chapter “Form-of-life”. Virno, in A Grammar of the Multitude, speaks of the multitude as a “form of associative life” and then goes on to speak [...]