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Ne g ri & Har dt,
Commonwealth


     A summary of the book
     Alberto J. Revolware
PREFACE: THE BECOMING-
PRINCE
OF THE MULTITUDE
  Our ethical and political project: how can an
   ethical production be established on the
   shifting ground of the production of
   subjectivity, which constantly transforms
   fixed values and subjects?
  Our challenge will be to find ways to translate
   the productivity and possibility of the poor into
   power.
  Negri&Hardt, wonders if "one can suggest a
   'Spinozian' reading, or rewriting, of Heidegger's
   Being and Time.
PART1
REPUBLIC
(AND THE MULTITUDE OF THE
POOR)
1.1. REPUBLIC OF
PROPERTY
 Nowadays, the concept of the individual
  is defined by not being but having, by
  property.
 Property and the defense of property
  remain the foundation of every modern
  political constitution: american (9), french (11),
  Haitian
 Social democrats thus never radically
  question the republic of property:
  Habermas, Rawls; Giddens, Beck; Stiglitz, Friedman
  (18-19)
1.2. PRODUCTIVE BODIES

  Private property in its capitalist form thus
   produces a relation of exploitation in its
   fullest sense—the production of the
   human as commodity—
  Negri&Hardt, try to summarize the entry
   of the phenomenology of bodies into
   Marxist theory: Frankfurt School, Socialisme ou
   Barbarie, situationist, events of 1968 (23ss).
1.2. PRODUCTIVE BODIES

  How phenomenology of body arises:
  voluntarism & vitalism, Bergson, Gentile as a dialectic
   without negativity
  Dilthey & von Wartenburg, event, transcendence and
   historicism (28).
  Martin Heidegger, an apology for fascism (29)
1.2. PRODUCTIVE BODIES

 The phenomenology of bodies in Foucault reaches its
 highest point in his analysis of biopolitics, his
 research agenda:
 1.bodies are the constitutive components of the
 biopolitical fabric of being.
 2.On the biopolitical terrain where powers are continually
 made and unmade, bodies resist. History is determined
 by the biopolitical antagonisms and resistances to
 biopower.
 3.corporeal resistance produces subjectivity, not in
 an isolated or independent way but in the complex
 dynamic with the resistances of other bodies.
1.2. PRODUCTIVE BODIES

 Labor, freed from private property,
 simultaneously engages all our senses and
 capacities, in short, all our "human relations to
 the world—seeing hearing, smelling, tasting,
 feeling, thinking, contemplating, sensing,
 wanting, acting, loving." (Marx) When labor and
 production are conceived in this expanded form,
 crossing all the domains of life, bodies can never
 be eclipsed and subordinated to any
 transcendent measure or power.
1.3. THE MULTITUDE
OF THE POOR
During the whole history, the specter of a
 multitude of the poor circulates around the
 globe and threatens the rule of property
 everywhere it takes root:
 Francis of Assisi.“Iure naturali sunt omnia omnibus" (by natural law
  all belongs to everyone).
 Pamphlets of political struggles in seventeenth-century England
 Thomas Münzer and the Anabaptists against the German princes
 1647 Putney Debates between the Levellers and factions of the
  New Model Army,
 the 1781 Tupac Katari attack on Spanish rule in La Paz to the
  1857
 Indian rebellion against the rule of the British East India Company.
 Robert Boyle, multiplicity and mixture as primary in nature.
DE CORPORE 1:
BIOPOLITICS AS
EVENT
           Being is made in
           the event, the
           biopolitical event
           thus breaks with all
           forms of
           metaphysical
           substantialism or
           conceptualism.
DE CORPORE 1:
BIOPOLITICS AS
EVENTthe biopolitical event is:
  The rute to
     Francois Ewald and Roberto Esposito, an actuarial
      administration of life.
     Giorgio Agamben, negates any constructive capacity of
      biopolitical resistance.
     Chomsky, Simondon, Bernard Stiegler, and Peter Sloterdijk;
      certain autonomy in the invariable logical-linguistic structures
      but that lacks a dynamic creative character.
     None of these interpretations captures what is most important
      in Foucault's          notion of biopolitics: Biopolitics as an event
      or, really, as a tightly woven fabric of events of freedom.
     Alain Badiou, event as the central question.
     Gilles Deleuze, precipitating events of resistance that have
      the power not only to escape control but also to create a new
      world.
PART2
MODERNITY
(AND THE LANDSCAPES OF
ALTERMODERNITY)
2.1 ANTIMODERNITY
AS RESISTANCE
 More modernity or a more complete
  modernity is not an answer to our
  problems.
 Modernity, coloniality, racism, the three
  together, function as a complex, with
  each serving as a necessary support for
  the other.
2.1 ANTIMODERNITY
AS RESISTANCE
Classic analisis       Negri & Hardt

  Ideology               Biopower
    (External)             (Internal)
                   X
Antimodern             Biopolitical
resistance              Struggle
    (Internal)             (External)
2.2 AMBIVALENCES OF
MODERNITY
          Marxism was
           simplified into an
           evolutionary theory
           of progress from
           which all elements
           of antimodernity
           are excluded as
           backward,
           underdeveloped.
2.2 AMBIVALENCES OF
MODERNITY
 Two positive tasks for an analysis of the forces
 of antimodernity.
 1.To pose a clear distinction between
   • reactionary antimodern notions of power that seek
     to break the relationship by freeing the sovereign
     and
   • liberatory antimodernities that challenge and
     subvert hierarchies by affirming the resistance and
     expanding the freedom of the subordinated.
 1.To recognize how this resistance and freedom
 always exceed the relationship of domination
 and thus cannot be recuperated in any dialectic
 with modern power.
2.3 ALTERMODERNITY

 Three senses to see antimodernity as a form of
 resistance
 1.As a struggle for freedom within the power relation
 of modernity
 2.As not geographically external to but rather
 coextensive with modernity
 3.As not temporally external to modernity in the sense
 that it does not simply come after the exertion of
 modern power, as a reaction. In fact antimodernity is
 prior in the sense that the power relation of modernity
 can be exercised only over free subjects who express
 that freedom through resistance to hierarchy and
 domination.
2.3 ALTERMODERNITY
To construct a definition of altermodernity we propose three
general lines of investigation
1.An alternative line within European Enlightenment:
       Machiavelli, Spinoza, and Marx.
       Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche, occupy ambiguous
        positions with respect to this line.
       search for absolute democracy against sovereign
        absolutism.
1.Workers' movements throughout the world
2.the forces of antimodernity that resist coloniality, imperialism,
and the innumerable permutations of racialized rule.
Our hypothesis is that the forces of antimodernity in each of
these three domains, continually defeated and contained i n the
past, can be reproposed today as altermodernity when they link
with the lines of resistance in the other domains.
DE HOMINE 1:
BIOPOLITICAL REASON
 Three characteristics that a biopolitical reason
 would have to fulfill: it would have to
 1.put rationality at the service of life;
 2.technique at the service of ecological needs,
 where by ecological we mean not simply the
 preservation of nature but the development and
 reproduction of "social" relations, as Viveiros de
 Castro says, between humans and nonhumans;
 3.and the accumulation of wealth at the service
 of the common.
DE HOMINE 1:
BIOPOLITICAL REASON
 The collective practice of biopolitical reason has to take
 the form of strategic investigation. The truth is produced
 in action made in common, without intermediaries.
 Practical cases:
 1.industrial workers‘ movements and their scientific knowledges in
 the 1960s
 2.professors and students who take their work outside the
 universities
 3."coresearch“ developed experimentally in social centers and
 nomad universities, on Web sites and in movement journals…
 Biopolitical reason is thus defined by a kind of
 ontological resonance between the dispositifs and the
 common.
PART 3
CAPITAL
(AND THE STRUGGLES
OVER COMMON WEALTH)
3.1 METAMORPHOSES OF
THE COMPOSITION OF
CAPITAL
 The rupture of the organic relationship and the growing autonomy
 of labor are at the heart of the new forms of crisis of capitalist
 production and control.

   Author        Concept        Capital subsumes…
   Marx          Formal         Preexisting labor activities
                 Subsumption
   Marx          Real           Ad-hoc labor activities
                 Subsumption
   Negri&Hardt                  Society as a whole

   Negri&Hardt                  No more: labor power is
                                becoming more and more
                                autonomous
3.1 METAMORPHOSES OF
THE COMPOSITION OF
CAPITAL
 Trends in actual biopolitical
    production
                               Contradictions in the productivity of
                               biopolitical labor due to mechanisms
                                                     of control imposed by the capitalist

1   The inmaterial dimension of the                  strategies of control destroy the common
       product                                       and the productivity of biopolitical labor is
                                                     reduced every time the common is
                                                     destroyed

2   The feminization of work in the                  the creativity involved in biopolitical
       terms of:                                     production, requires the freedom of the
      2.1- The proportion of woman in the labor      producers to organize their own time
        market
      2.2- Temporal flexibility
      2.3- Increasing importance in production
        of qualities traditionally associated wtih
        "woman´s work" affective, emotional,
        relationship


3   New patterns of migration                        the creativity of biopolitical labor requires
                                                     an open and dynamic egalitarian culture
                                                     with constant cultural flows and mixtures.
3.2 CLASS STRUGGLE
FROM CRISIS TO
EXODUS still, of course, involve
Class struggle does
resisting and attacking the bases of capitalist
power,but it also requires an exodus from the
relationship with capital.
a process of subtraction from capital and the
construction of autonomy o f the multitude; and
that this project of exodus is the primary form
class struggle takes today.
Exodus is possible only on the basis of the
common—both access to the common and the
ability to make use of it.
3.2 CLASS STRUGGLE
FROM CRISIS TO
EXODUSof these really existing forms of
Revealing some
the common is a first step toward establishing the
bases for an exodus of the multitude from its
relation with capital.
1.In its beneficial form as motor of generation.
Metropolis. Real estate agents, do not need any
complicated theories to understand the dominant role of
the common.
Finance capital is in essence an elaborate machine for
representing the common.
3.2 CLASS STRUGGLE
FROM CRISIS TO
EXODUS that decrease our powers..
2.In its corrupt form,
Family
   Imposing gender hierarchies and enforcing gender
      norms,
   as the sole paradigm for relationships of intimacy
      and solidarity,
   extreme forms of narcissism and individualism
   institution for the accumulation and transfer of
      private property
Corporation
Nation
3.3 KAIROS OF THE
MULTITUDE
We propose the multitude as an adequate concept for
organizing politically the project of exodus and liberation,
but it have critics:
                     1.The question is whether and
                     how these singularities can act
                     together politically: Machery,
                     Laclau,
                     2.see no reason to assume that
                     the political decisions and action
                     of the multitude will be oriented
                     toward liberation: Paolo Virno,
                     Balibar, Zizek, Badiou
3.3 KAIROS OF THE
MULTITUDE
We have to shift our perspective from being the
multitude to making the multitude, and to recognize
the multitude as a constant process of
metamorphosis grounded in the common:
1.just as a wide social multiplicity produces
immaterial products and economic value, so too is
such a multitude able to produce political decisions.
2.There is indeed something mysterious about the
act of creation, but it is a miracle that wells up from
within the multitude every day. The multitude must
select the beneficial and flee the detrimental forms of
the common.
DE    SINGULARITATE 1:
OF    LOVE POSSESSED
Love is a process of the production of the
common and the production of subjectivity.
Being, is not some immutable background
against which life takes place but is rather a living
relation in which we constantly have the power to
intervene. Love is an ontological event in that it
marks a rupture with what exists and the creation
of the new.
DE     SINGULARITATE 1:
OF     LOVE POSSESSED
Mandeville's     free agents      capitalist
bees             trading labor    dream
                 and goods
Dutiful worker   joined with their socialist
bees             flowers in        Utopia
                 mutual aid

Guattari´s wasp That has sex      biopolitical
                with orchids      economy
A FORCE TO
INTERMEZZO:
COMBAT EVIL
Our proposition for political anthropology is to
conceive of evil as a derivative and distortion of
love and the common. Evil is the corruption of
love that creates an obstacle to love, or to say the
same thing with a different focus, evil is the
corruption of the common that blocks its
production and productivity.
A FORCE TO
INTERMEZZO:
COMBAT EVIL
              Desire sets in motion
              the construction of the
              common; and finally
              love consolidates the
              common institutions
              that form society.
              Human nature is not
              negated but
              transformed in this
              sequence.
A FORCE TO
INTERMEZZO:
COMBAT EVIL
Criteria for distinguishing love's force.
1.Interaction of singularities in processes of
social solidarity and political equality.
2.Oriented toward the freedom of those
singularities.
3.Organizational forms: always open, constitutive,
and horizontal,
4.Fourth, the relation between love and force is
legitimated in the consensus
PART 4
EMPIRE
RETURNS
4.1 BRIEF HISTORY OF
A FAILED COUP D'ETAT
            Every coup
            needs a trigger, a
            catastrophic event
            that legitimates
            taking the reins of
            power. September
            11, 2001, the
            rhetoric of a "war
            on terror" justified
            a state of
            emergency.
4.1 BRIEF HISTORY OF
A FAILED COUP D'ETAT
A primary element of the unilateral project in Iraq
was the military strategy often referred to as the
"revolutionary in military affairs" ( RMA ) or
"defense transformation.“based on two primary
strategic innovations:
1.reducing troop levels through the coordinated use of
information and weapons technologies in combat;
2.and reorganizing military formations to make them
lighter, more mobile, and more flexible.
4.2 AFTER U.S.
HEGEMONY
the Vietnam War, marked the signal crisis of the
imperialist era; while War of Iraq marked its terminal
crisis and the passage to Empire
A wide variety of authors employ "governance," in
contrast to "government," to explore the novelty of the
new authorities and assemblages forming within and
outside the nation-state.
A new imperial formation is emerging that can function
only through the collaboration of a variety of national,
supranational, and non national powers. Our future
politics will have to be cast in relation to this Empire.
4.3 GENEALOGY OF
REBELLION
The axiom of freedom: Power can be exercised
only over free subjects, and thus the resistance of
those subjects is not really posterior to power but
an expression of their freedom, which is prior.
Revolt as an exercise of freedom not only
precedes but also prefigures the forms that power
will take in reaction.
4.3 GENEALOGY OF
REBELLION
Today, in the context of biopolitical production,
when the factory is no longer the primary site of
the production of capital, this imaginary
continues, but transformed: the proletariat is
within society as a whole and produces there;
and it is against this same social totality.
So exodus means a kind of anthropological (and
ontological) separation from the domination of
capital.
4.3 GENEALOGY OF
REBELLION
Also is no longer posible the division between
work time and life time.
So revolution is no longer imaginable as an
event separated from us in the future but has to
live in the present.
Temporality of “exception” should become an
"exceeding" present that in some sense already
contains the future within it through a movement
of exodus.
4.3 GENEALOGY OF
REBELLION
Production of capital is no longer limited to the
factory or any other separated site but rather
spreads throughout the entire social territory. The
task facing capital is thus constantly to rebuild
borders, reterritorialize the laboring populations,
and reconstruct the fixed dimensions of social
space. Capital must pursue, in other words, ever
new definitions of localized social hierarchies to
rebuild the borders necessary for its order and
command.
4.3 GENEALOGY OF
REBELLION
            Constructing global
            public space requires
            that the multitude, in its
            exodus, create the
            institutions that can
            consolidate and fortify
            the anthropological
            conditions of the
            resistance of the poor.
DE CORPORE 2:
METROPOLIS
the metropolis is to the multitude what
the factory was to the industrial working class

1.There is no longer a factory wall that divides living from
working places, and "externalities" are no longer external.
2.The organization of the joyful encounters of the
multitude corresponds to the productive deployment of
workers on the factory floor, in cooperative teams,
3.the metropolis, like the factory, is the site of hierarchy
and exploitation, violence and suffering, fear and pain.
DE CORPORE 2:
METROPOLIS
The metropolitanization of the world does not
necessarily just mean a generalization of
structures of hierarchy and exploitation. It can
also mean a generalization of rebellion and then,
possibly, the growth of networks of cooperation
and communication, the increased intensity of the
common and encounters among
singularities.This is where the multitude is finding
its home.
PART 5
BEYOND
CAPITAL?
5.1 TERMS OF THE
ECONOMIC
TRANSITION
The crisis is caused,by the new
ontology of biopolitical labor. The forms
of intellectual, affective, and cognitive labor
that are emerging in the central role in the
contemporary economy cannot be
controlled by the forms of discipline and
command developed in the era of the
factory society.
5.1 TERMS OF THE
ECONOMIC
TRANSITION a paradoxical
Capital is confronted with
situation: the more it is forced to pursue
valorization through knowledge production, the
more that knowledge escapes its control.
Also there is a incompatibility of biopolitical
production and socialism in all its forms:
bureaucratic planning, state regulation, and so
forth… as autonomy is equally required from
state control and government forms of discipline.
Also in social democracy as it is seen solely as
a mechanism for the distribution of wealth, not its
generation.
5.1 TERMS OF THE
ECONOMIC
TRANSITION

 what the private is to capitalism and
 what the public is to socialism,
 the common is to communism.
5.1 TERMS OF THE
ECONOMIC
TRANSITION is based on Polybius'
Negri & Hardt idea of Imperial Governance
eulogy to ancient Rome, as having a mixed constitution defined by a
pyramidal structure, combining:
1. A single monarch:
a central military power in Washington (or Beijing); a central cultural power in
Los Angeles (or Mumbai); a central financial power in New York (or
Frankfurt); and so forth.
 2. A limited aristocracy:
In Russia industrial and financial oligarchs together with mafia thugs and an
array of government officials. In China instead anchored more closely to the
state and party with tightly controlled participation of entrepreneurs and
business elites…
 3. A broader (pseudo-)democratic base.
various humanitarian NGOs and aid organizations are cast as representing
the people (or at least their interests); and the dominant media.
5.2 WHAT REMAINS OF
CAPITALISM economic science of biopolitical
        An adequate
                   production has yet to be invented. Following
                   physocratic Quesnay´s Tableau Economique
                   (1758), Negri & Hardt propose to draw an
                   analogous table for biopolitical production with
                   at least three columns of struggles of the
                   common :



              against work in defence of freedom
              against wage in defence of social life
              against capital in defence of democracy
5.2 WHAT REMAINS OF
CAPITALISM
Is it possible at this point to reintegrate the working class
within capital? This is the illusion promoted by social
democracy,
The primary capitalist strategy for maintaining power in
this divided situation,is financial control. Using the dual
nature of money.
      On its politically neutral face as abstraction of the value of
       commodities based on the quantity of labor.
      As a representation of the wealth of social production.
Is possible a strategy that would conserve both
representational functions of money but wrest control of
them away from capital?
5.3 PRE-SHOCKS
ALONG THE FAULT
LINESof capital's illness:
Symptoms
1.the decline of capital's entrepreneurial
capacities.
2.its failure to engage and develop productive
forces, in subjective terms. Biopolitical goods—
such as ideas, affects, codes, knowledges,
information, and images—still have to circulate to
realize their value, but that circulation is now
internal to the production process.
5.3 PRE-SHOCKS
ALONG THE FAULT
LINES
Possible reforms that could constitute a program
 for capital.
 1.providing the infrastructure necessary for biopolitical
 production
       Basic: clean drinking water, sanitary conditions, electricity, access to
        affordable food
       social and intellectual infrastructure, linguistic tools, affective tools; open
        infrastructure of information and culture (physical, logical & content layer)
 1.freedom of movement, establishing some form of open
 citizenship.
 2.freedom of time, establishing a minimum guaranteed income
 3.The freedom to construct social relationships and create
 autonomous social institutions. This means participatory
 democracy.
DE HOMINE 2: CROSS
THE THRESHOLD!
 In the sequence of discussions at the end of
 each part of this book, we have tracked figures
 in which labour value exceeds the flows of the
 economy and power.
         the biopolitical event (part 1)
         biopolitical reason (part 2)
         love as a constituent social drive
         exceeds all constituted powers (part 3)
         the metropolis (part 4)
DE HOMINE 2: CROSS
THE THRESHOLD!
what it means for biopolitics to exceed?
In epistemological terms, exceeding is a
linguistic act of rupture and innovation
In physical terms, accelerated invention of new
forms of social life in common.
 In ethics, an experience of training in love
DE HOMINE 2: CROSS
THE THRESHOLD!
The principle of an exceeding of will over
instrumental knowledge through history:
ancient Greece
Augustine's affirmation of a free will
What Ernst Bloch call the "Aristotelian Left“:
Avicenna, Averroes…
Duns Scotus, Nicholas of Cusa, Spinoza,
Nietzsche and Deleuze
DE HOMINE 2: CROSS
THE THRESHOLD!
To exceed is a creative activity. A new theory of
value has to be based on the powers of
economic, political, and social innovation that
today are expressions of the multitude's desire.
This leads to a series of political positions:
labor-power against exploitation
singularity against identity
the common against the republic of property
measure of value must be determined through
the democratic exercise of the production of the
common
PART 6
REVOLUTION
6.1 REVOLUTIONARY
PARALLELISM
Revolutionary politics has to start from identity but
cannot end there.
   1. Make visible the brutally real but too often hidden mechanisms and
   regimes of social subordination, segmentation, and exclusion that operate
   along identity lines.

   2. Struggle for freedom, first as emancipation, after as liberation.

            emancipation      freedom to be who you really are
            liberation        Freedom to determine what you can become

    3. The self-abolition of identity. The project for the abolition o f identity
    thus fills the traditional role o f the abolition of property and the abolition
    of the state. Queer, as critique of identity.
6.1 REVOLUTIONARY
PARALLELISM
 Identity politics, by its very concept, assumes a
  certain parallelism: so structures of
  subordination (gender, racial, class…) share some common
  elements this makes possible processes of
  translation among the analytical and political
  traditions.
Only on the field of biopolitical struggles,
composed by parallelism and multiplicity, can
a revolutionary struggle for the common be
successfully pursued.
6.1 REVOLUTIONARY
PARALLELISM
modernity      identity-property-sovereignty
               is been replaced in by

altermodernity singularity-the common-revolution

                            Revolution is now,
                            finally, becoming
                            the order of the
                            day.
6.2 INSURRECTIONAL
INTERSECTIONS
 ¿Crisis of representation, "democratic deficit"—
  in the global context?
 What is lacking, are the mechanisms of measure
  that identity and representation require.
 The process of articulation of insurrectional
  intersections is an ontological process. That
  also drive us to an ontological transformation of
  the conditions of decision making itself.
6.2 INSURRECTIONAL
INTERSECTIONS
  Revolutionary struggle must be consolitaded
   and reinforce in a new form of institution:
        1.   based on conflict
        2.   consolidate collective habits, practices, and
             capacities that designate a form of life
        3.   are open-ended in that they are continually
             transformed by the singularities that compose them.

This notion of institution corresponds closely to what we
called earlier "training in love" in that it does not reduce
the multiplicity of singularities but creates a context for
them to manage their encounters promoting de joyful ones
6.3 GOVERNING THE
REVOLUTION
 The process of transition rather than dialectical,
  is asymptotic, and is not spontaneous.
 How can the transition be governed? What or
  who draws the political diagonal that guides the
  transition?
 The way out of the impasse is to bring the
  political diagonal back to the biopolitical
  diagram, that is, to ground it in an investigation o
  f the capacities people already exercise in their
  daily lives and, specifically, in the processes of
  biopolitical production.
6.3 GOVERNING THE
REVOLUTION
 Problems to overcome about these capacities
  that people already exercise in their daily lives:

1. first, the autonomy of biopolitical production is only
   partial, since it is still directed and constrained under
   the command of capital;
2. and second, these economic capacities are not
   immediately expressed as political capacities.
6.3 GOVERNING THE
REVOLUTION
 Gramsci, with his notion of “pasive revolution”, is
  in many ways a prophet of the biopolitical
  diagram.
 He seems to intuit that the transformation of the
  technical composition of the proletariat, will
  break down the divisions between structure and
  superstructure, bringing culture and social
  relations directly into the realm of economic
  value and production. He even grasps that the
  new technical composition implies a new
  production of subjectivity.
6.3 GOVERNING THE
REVOLUTION
 Our inclination is to appropriate this concept of
  governance, subvert its imperial vocation,
  and reformulate it as a concept of democracy
  and revolution.
 We find some potential in the notion of
  federalism by which some theorists understand
  functions of global governance.
6.3 GOVERNING THE
REVOLUTION
 Connection with a group of German legal
  theorists who build on Niklas Luhmann s
  systems theories: GuntherTeubner and
  Andreas Fischer-Lescano…
This group of German                 Negri & Hardt

fragmentation                        multiplicity of singularities
overflowing                          relation between labor and value
network logic in the governance of   cooperation of biopolitical production
exceptional normative situations
social conflict as the basis for     basis for the revolutionary
contingent legal frameworks          notion of institution
6.3 GOVERNING THE
REVOLUTION
         A revolutionary process today
         will have to be governed by a
         Rechtswollen, that is, an
         institutional and constitutional
         will , which, in a parallel way,
         articulates the singularities of
         the multitude, along with its
         diverse instances of revolt
         and rebellion, in a powerful
         and lasting common process.
DE SINGULARITATE 2:
INSTITUTING
HAPPINESS
 Happiness should become once again today a
  political concept. Happiness as a pleasure that lasts and
  repeats, and of collective nature.
 Being is not fixed once and for all in some otherworldly
  realm but constantly subject to a process of becoming.
  Human nature similarly is not immutable but rather open
  to a process of training and education.
 Change is possible at the most basic level of our world
  and our selves and that we can intervene in this process
  to orient it along the lines of our desires, toward
  happiness.
DE SINGULARITATE 2:
INSTITUTING
HAPPINESS conceptions of happiness, joy,
How can we restore or reinvent such political
and love for our world?
1.Provide basic means of life for all, throughout the world, a
global guaranteed income and truly universal health care,
2.demand equality against hierarchy, allowing everyone to
become capable of participating in the constitution of
society, collective self-rule, and constructive interaction
with others. This means: basic education, a global
citizenship.
3.open access to the common against the barriers of
private property
DE SINGULARITATE 2:
INSTITUTING
HAPPINESShappiness will constantly be
 The process of instituting
  accompanied by laughter.
 Ours is also a laugh of creation and joy, anchored solidly
  in the present.
 Ours is finally a laugh of destruction, the laugh of
  armed angels which accompanies the combat
  against evil, nothing to do with hatred.
 The extirpation in ourselves of our attachments to
  identity and, in general, the conditions of our
  enslavement will be extraordinarily painful, but still we
  laugh.
Contact
           Alberto.revolware@gmail.com
           http://www.gredos.org/commonwealth
            /
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  • 1. Ne g ri & Har dt, Commonwealth A summary of the book Alberto J. Revolware
  • 2. PREFACE: THE BECOMING- PRINCE OF THE MULTITUDE  Our ethical and political project: how can an ethical production be established on the shifting ground of the production of subjectivity, which constantly transforms fixed values and subjects?  Our challenge will be to find ways to translate the productivity and possibility of the poor into power.  Negri&Hardt, wonders if "one can suggest a 'Spinozian' reading, or rewriting, of Heidegger's Being and Time.
  • 4. 1.1. REPUBLIC OF PROPERTY  Nowadays, the concept of the individual is defined by not being but having, by property.  Property and the defense of property remain the foundation of every modern political constitution: american (9), french (11), Haitian  Social democrats thus never radically question the republic of property: Habermas, Rawls; Giddens, Beck; Stiglitz, Friedman (18-19)
  • 5. 1.2. PRODUCTIVE BODIES  Private property in its capitalist form thus produces a relation of exploitation in its fullest sense—the production of the human as commodity—  Negri&Hardt, try to summarize the entry of the phenomenology of bodies into Marxist theory: Frankfurt School, Socialisme ou Barbarie, situationist, events of 1968 (23ss).
  • 6. 1.2. PRODUCTIVE BODIES  How phenomenology of body arises:  voluntarism & vitalism, Bergson, Gentile as a dialectic without negativity  Dilthey & von Wartenburg, event, transcendence and historicism (28).  Martin Heidegger, an apology for fascism (29)
  • 7. 1.2. PRODUCTIVE BODIES The phenomenology of bodies in Foucault reaches its highest point in his analysis of biopolitics, his research agenda: 1.bodies are the constitutive components of the biopolitical fabric of being. 2.On the biopolitical terrain where powers are continually made and unmade, bodies resist. History is determined by the biopolitical antagonisms and resistances to biopower. 3.corporeal resistance produces subjectivity, not in an isolated or independent way but in the complex dynamic with the resistances of other bodies.
  • 8. 1.2. PRODUCTIVE BODIES Labor, freed from private property, simultaneously engages all our senses and capacities, in short, all our "human relations to the world—seeing hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling, thinking, contemplating, sensing, wanting, acting, loving." (Marx) When labor and production are conceived in this expanded form, crossing all the domains of life, bodies can never be eclipsed and subordinated to any transcendent measure or power.
  • 9. 1.3. THE MULTITUDE OF THE POOR During the whole history, the specter of a multitude of the poor circulates around the globe and threatens the rule of property everywhere it takes root:  Francis of Assisi.“Iure naturali sunt omnia omnibus" (by natural law all belongs to everyone).  Pamphlets of political struggles in seventeenth-century England  Thomas Münzer and the Anabaptists against the German princes  1647 Putney Debates between the Levellers and factions of the New Model Army,  the 1781 Tupac Katari attack on Spanish rule in La Paz to the 1857  Indian rebellion against the rule of the British East India Company.  Robert Boyle, multiplicity and mixture as primary in nature.
  • 10. DE CORPORE 1: BIOPOLITICS AS EVENT Being is made in the event, the biopolitical event thus breaks with all forms of metaphysical substantialism or conceptualism.
  • 11. DE CORPORE 1: BIOPOLITICS AS EVENTthe biopolitical event is:  The rute to  Francois Ewald and Roberto Esposito, an actuarial administration of life.  Giorgio Agamben, negates any constructive capacity of biopolitical resistance.  Chomsky, Simondon, Bernard Stiegler, and Peter Sloterdijk; certain autonomy in the invariable logical-linguistic structures but that lacks a dynamic creative character.  None of these interpretations captures what is most important in Foucault's notion of biopolitics: Biopolitics as an event or, really, as a tightly woven fabric of events of freedom.  Alain Badiou, event as the central question.  Gilles Deleuze, precipitating events of resistance that have the power not only to escape control but also to create a new world.
  • 13. 2.1 ANTIMODERNITY AS RESISTANCE  More modernity or a more complete modernity is not an answer to our problems.  Modernity, coloniality, racism, the three together, function as a complex, with each serving as a necessary support for the other.
  • 14. 2.1 ANTIMODERNITY AS RESISTANCE Classic analisis Negri & Hardt Ideology Biopower (External) (Internal) X Antimodern Biopolitical resistance Struggle (Internal) (External)
  • 15. 2.2 AMBIVALENCES OF MODERNITY  Marxism was simplified into an evolutionary theory of progress from which all elements of antimodernity are excluded as backward, underdeveloped.
  • 16. 2.2 AMBIVALENCES OF MODERNITY Two positive tasks for an analysis of the forces of antimodernity. 1.To pose a clear distinction between • reactionary antimodern notions of power that seek to break the relationship by freeing the sovereign and • liberatory antimodernities that challenge and subvert hierarchies by affirming the resistance and expanding the freedom of the subordinated. 1.To recognize how this resistance and freedom always exceed the relationship of domination and thus cannot be recuperated in any dialectic with modern power.
  • 17. 2.3 ALTERMODERNITY Three senses to see antimodernity as a form of resistance 1.As a struggle for freedom within the power relation of modernity 2.As not geographically external to but rather coextensive with modernity 3.As not temporally external to modernity in the sense that it does not simply come after the exertion of modern power, as a reaction. In fact antimodernity is prior in the sense that the power relation of modernity can be exercised only over free subjects who express that freedom through resistance to hierarchy and domination.
  • 18. 2.3 ALTERMODERNITY To construct a definition of altermodernity we propose three general lines of investigation 1.An alternative line within European Enlightenment:  Machiavelli, Spinoza, and Marx.  Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche, occupy ambiguous positions with respect to this line.  search for absolute democracy against sovereign absolutism. 1.Workers' movements throughout the world 2.the forces of antimodernity that resist coloniality, imperialism, and the innumerable permutations of racialized rule. Our hypothesis is that the forces of antimodernity in each of these three domains, continually defeated and contained i n the past, can be reproposed today as altermodernity when they link with the lines of resistance in the other domains.
  • 19. DE HOMINE 1: BIOPOLITICAL REASON Three characteristics that a biopolitical reason would have to fulfill: it would have to 1.put rationality at the service of life; 2.technique at the service of ecological needs, where by ecological we mean not simply the preservation of nature but the development and reproduction of "social" relations, as Viveiros de Castro says, between humans and nonhumans; 3.and the accumulation of wealth at the service of the common.
  • 20. DE HOMINE 1: BIOPOLITICAL REASON The collective practice of biopolitical reason has to take the form of strategic investigation. The truth is produced in action made in common, without intermediaries. Practical cases: 1.industrial workers‘ movements and their scientific knowledges in the 1960s 2.professors and students who take their work outside the universities 3."coresearch“ developed experimentally in social centers and nomad universities, on Web sites and in movement journals… Biopolitical reason is thus defined by a kind of ontological resonance between the dispositifs and the common.
  • 21. PART 3 CAPITAL (AND THE STRUGGLES OVER COMMON WEALTH)
  • 22. 3.1 METAMORPHOSES OF THE COMPOSITION OF CAPITAL The rupture of the organic relationship and the growing autonomy of labor are at the heart of the new forms of crisis of capitalist production and control. Author Concept Capital subsumes… Marx Formal Preexisting labor activities Subsumption Marx Real Ad-hoc labor activities Subsumption Negri&Hardt Society as a whole Negri&Hardt No more: labor power is becoming more and more autonomous
  • 23. 3.1 METAMORPHOSES OF THE COMPOSITION OF CAPITAL Trends in actual biopolitical production Contradictions in the productivity of biopolitical labor due to mechanisms of control imposed by the capitalist 1 The inmaterial dimension of the strategies of control destroy the common product and the productivity of biopolitical labor is reduced every time the common is destroyed 2 The feminization of work in the the creativity involved in biopolitical terms of: production, requires the freedom of the 2.1- The proportion of woman in the labor producers to organize their own time market 2.2- Temporal flexibility 2.3- Increasing importance in production of qualities traditionally associated wtih "woman´s work" affective, emotional, relationship 3 New patterns of migration the creativity of biopolitical labor requires an open and dynamic egalitarian culture with constant cultural flows and mixtures.
  • 24. 3.2 CLASS STRUGGLE FROM CRISIS TO EXODUS still, of course, involve Class struggle does resisting and attacking the bases of capitalist power,but it also requires an exodus from the relationship with capital. a process of subtraction from capital and the construction of autonomy o f the multitude; and that this project of exodus is the primary form class struggle takes today. Exodus is possible only on the basis of the common—both access to the common and the ability to make use of it.
  • 25. 3.2 CLASS STRUGGLE FROM CRISIS TO EXODUSof these really existing forms of Revealing some the common is a first step toward establishing the bases for an exodus of the multitude from its relation with capital. 1.In its beneficial form as motor of generation. Metropolis. Real estate agents, do not need any complicated theories to understand the dominant role of the common. Finance capital is in essence an elaborate machine for representing the common.
  • 26. 3.2 CLASS STRUGGLE FROM CRISIS TO EXODUS that decrease our powers.. 2.In its corrupt form, Family  Imposing gender hierarchies and enforcing gender norms,  as the sole paradigm for relationships of intimacy and solidarity,  extreme forms of narcissism and individualism  institution for the accumulation and transfer of private property Corporation Nation
  • 27. 3.3 KAIROS OF THE MULTITUDE We propose the multitude as an adequate concept for organizing politically the project of exodus and liberation, but it have critics: 1.The question is whether and how these singularities can act together politically: Machery, Laclau, 2.see no reason to assume that the political decisions and action of the multitude will be oriented toward liberation: Paolo Virno, Balibar, Zizek, Badiou
  • 28. 3.3 KAIROS OF THE MULTITUDE We have to shift our perspective from being the multitude to making the multitude, and to recognize the multitude as a constant process of metamorphosis grounded in the common: 1.just as a wide social multiplicity produces immaterial products and economic value, so too is such a multitude able to produce political decisions. 2.There is indeed something mysterious about the act of creation, but it is a miracle that wells up from within the multitude every day. The multitude must select the beneficial and flee the detrimental forms of the common.
  • 29. DE SINGULARITATE 1: OF LOVE POSSESSED Love is a process of the production of the common and the production of subjectivity. Being, is not some immutable background against which life takes place but is rather a living relation in which we constantly have the power to intervene. Love is an ontological event in that it marks a rupture with what exists and the creation of the new.
  • 30. DE SINGULARITATE 1: OF LOVE POSSESSED Mandeville's free agents capitalist bees trading labor dream and goods Dutiful worker joined with their socialist bees flowers in Utopia mutual aid Guattari´s wasp That has sex biopolitical with orchids economy
  • 31. A FORCE TO INTERMEZZO: COMBAT EVIL Our proposition for political anthropology is to conceive of evil as a derivative and distortion of love and the common. Evil is the corruption of love that creates an obstacle to love, or to say the same thing with a different focus, evil is the corruption of the common that blocks its production and productivity.
  • 32. A FORCE TO INTERMEZZO: COMBAT EVIL Desire sets in motion the construction of the common; and finally love consolidates the common institutions that form society. Human nature is not negated but transformed in this sequence.
  • 33. A FORCE TO INTERMEZZO: COMBAT EVIL Criteria for distinguishing love's force. 1.Interaction of singularities in processes of social solidarity and political equality. 2.Oriented toward the freedom of those singularities. 3.Organizational forms: always open, constitutive, and horizontal, 4.Fourth, the relation between love and force is legitimated in the consensus
  • 35. 4.1 BRIEF HISTORY OF A FAILED COUP D'ETAT Every coup needs a trigger, a catastrophic event that legitimates taking the reins of power. September 11, 2001, the rhetoric of a "war on terror" justified a state of emergency.
  • 36. 4.1 BRIEF HISTORY OF A FAILED COUP D'ETAT A primary element of the unilateral project in Iraq was the military strategy often referred to as the "revolutionary in military affairs" ( RMA ) or "defense transformation.“based on two primary strategic innovations: 1.reducing troop levels through the coordinated use of information and weapons technologies in combat; 2.and reorganizing military formations to make them lighter, more mobile, and more flexible.
  • 37. 4.2 AFTER U.S. HEGEMONY the Vietnam War, marked the signal crisis of the imperialist era; while War of Iraq marked its terminal crisis and the passage to Empire A wide variety of authors employ "governance," in contrast to "government," to explore the novelty of the new authorities and assemblages forming within and outside the nation-state. A new imperial formation is emerging that can function only through the collaboration of a variety of national, supranational, and non national powers. Our future politics will have to be cast in relation to this Empire.
  • 38. 4.3 GENEALOGY OF REBELLION The axiom of freedom: Power can be exercised only over free subjects, and thus the resistance of those subjects is not really posterior to power but an expression of their freedom, which is prior. Revolt as an exercise of freedom not only precedes but also prefigures the forms that power will take in reaction.
  • 39. 4.3 GENEALOGY OF REBELLION Today, in the context of biopolitical production, when the factory is no longer the primary site of the production of capital, this imaginary continues, but transformed: the proletariat is within society as a whole and produces there; and it is against this same social totality. So exodus means a kind of anthropological (and ontological) separation from the domination of capital.
  • 40. 4.3 GENEALOGY OF REBELLION Also is no longer posible the division between work time and life time. So revolution is no longer imaginable as an event separated from us in the future but has to live in the present. Temporality of “exception” should become an "exceeding" present that in some sense already contains the future within it through a movement of exodus.
  • 41. 4.3 GENEALOGY OF REBELLION Production of capital is no longer limited to the factory or any other separated site but rather spreads throughout the entire social territory. The task facing capital is thus constantly to rebuild borders, reterritorialize the laboring populations, and reconstruct the fixed dimensions of social space. Capital must pursue, in other words, ever new definitions of localized social hierarchies to rebuild the borders necessary for its order and command.
  • 42. 4.3 GENEALOGY OF REBELLION Constructing global public space requires that the multitude, in its exodus, create the institutions that can consolidate and fortify the anthropological conditions of the resistance of the poor.
  • 43. DE CORPORE 2: METROPOLIS the metropolis is to the multitude what the factory was to the industrial working class 1.There is no longer a factory wall that divides living from working places, and "externalities" are no longer external. 2.The organization of the joyful encounters of the multitude corresponds to the productive deployment of workers on the factory floor, in cooperative teams, 3.the metropolis, like the factory, is the site of hierarchy and exploitation, violence and suffering, fear and pain.
  • 44. DE CORPORE 2: METROPOLIS The metropolitanization of the world does not necessarily just mean a generalization of structures of hierarchy and exploitation. It can also mean a generalization of rebellion and then, possibly, the growth of networks of cooperation and communication, the increased intensity of the common and encounters among singularities.This is where the multitude is finding its home.
  • 46. 5.1 TERMS OF THE ECONOMIC TRANSITION The crisis is caused,by the new ontology of biopolitical labor. The forms of intellectual, affective, and cognitive labor that are emerging in the central role in the contemporary economy cannot be controlled by the forms of discipline and command developed in the era of the factory society.
  • 47. 5.1 TERMS OF THE ECONOMIC TRANSITION a paradoxical Capital is confronted with situation: the more it is forced to pursue valorization through knowledge production, the more that knowledge escapes its control. Also there is a incompatibility of biopolitical production and socialism in all its forms: bureaucratic planning, state regulation, and so forth… as autonomy is equally required from state control and government forms of discipline. Also in social democracy as it is seen solely as a mechanism for the distribution of wealth, not its generation.
  • 48. 5.1 TERMS OF THE ECONOMIC TRANSITION what the private is to capitalism and what the public is to socialism, the common is to communism.
  • 49. 5.1 TERMS OF THE ECONOMIC TRANSITION is based on Polybius' Negri & Hardt idea of Imperial Governance eulogy to ancient Rome, as having a mixed constitution defined by a pyramidal structure, combining: 1. A single monarch: a central military power in Washington (or Beijing); a central cultural power in Los Angeles (or Mumbai); a central financial power in New York (or Frankfurt); and so forth. 2. A limited aristocracy: In Russia industrial and financial oligarchs together with mafia thugs and an array of government officials. In China instead anchored more closely to the state and party with tightly controlled participation of entrepreneurs and business elites… 3. A broader (pseudo-)democratic base. various humanitarian NGOs and aid organizations are cast as representing the people (or at least their interests); and the dominant media.
  • 50. 5.2 WHAT REMAINS OF CAPITALISM economic science of biopolitical An adequate production has yet to be invented. Following physocratic Quesnay´s Tableau Economique (1758), Negri & Hardt propose to draw an analogous table for biopolitical production with at least three columns of struggles of the common : against work in defence of freedom against wage in defence of social life against capital in defence of democracy
  • 51. 5.2 WHAT REMAINS OF CAPITALISM Is it possible at this point to reintegrate the working class within capital? This is the illusion promoted by social democracy, The primary capitalist strategy for maintaining power in this divided situation,is financial control. Using the dual nature of money.  On its politically neutral face as abstraction of the value of commodities based on the quantity of labor.  As a representation of the wealth of social production. Is possible a strategy that would conserve both representational functions of money but wrest control of them away from capital?
  • 52. 5.3 PRE-SHOCKS ALONG THE FAULT LINESof capital's illness: Symptoms 1.the decline of capital's entrepreneurial capacities. 2.its failure to engage and develop productive forces, in subjective terms. Biopolitical goods— such as ideas, affects, codes, knowledges, information, and images—still have to circulate to realize their value, but that circulation is now internal to the production process.
  • 53. 5.3 PRE-SHOCKS ALONG THE FAULT LINES Possible reforms that could constitute a program for capital. 1.providing the infrastructure necessary for biopolitical production  Basic: clean drinking water, sanitary conditions, electricity, access to affordable food  social and intellectual infrastructure, linguistic tools, affective tools; open infrastructure of information and culture (physical, logical & content layer) 1.freedom of movement, establishing some form of open citizenship. 2.freedom of time, establishing a minimum guaranteed income 3.The freedom to construct social relationships and create autonomous social institutions. This means participatory democracy.
  • 54. DE HOMINE 2: CROSS THE THRESHOLD! In the sequence of discussions at the end of each part of this book, we have tracked figures in which labour value exceeds the flows of the economy and power. the biopolitical event (part 1) biopolitical reason (part 2) love as a constituent social drive exceeds all constituted powers (part 3) the metropolis (part 4)
  • 55. DE HOMINE 2: CROSS THE THRESHOLD! what it means for biopolitics to exceed? In epistemological terms, exceeding is a linguistic act of rupture and innovation In physical terms, accelerated invention of new forms of social life in common. In ethics, an experience of training in love
  • 56. DE HOMINE 2: CROSS THE THRESHOLD! The principle of an exceeding of will over instrumental knowledge through history: ancient Greece Augustine's affirmation of a free will What Ernst Bloch call the "Aristotelian Left“: Avicenna, Averroes… Duns Scotus, Nicholas of Cusa, Spinoza, Nietzsche and Deleuze
  • 57. DE HOMINE 2: CROSS THE THRESHOLD! To exceed is a creative activity. A new theory of value has to be based on the powers of economic, political, and social innovation that today are expressions of the multitude's desire. This leads to a series of political positions: labor-power against exploitation singularity against identity the common against the republic of property measure of value must be determined through the democratic exercise of the production of the common
  • 59. 6.1 REVOLUTIONARY PARALLELISM Revolutionary politics has to start from identity but cannot end there. 1. Make visible the brutally real but too often hidden mechanisms and regimes of social subordination, segmentation, and exclusion that operate along identity lines. 2. Struggle for freedom, first as emancipation, after as liberation. emancipation freedom to be who you really are liberation Freedom to determine what you can become 3. The self-abolition of identity. The project for the abolition o f identity thus fills the traditional role o f the abolition of property and the abolition of the state. Queer, as critique of identity.
  • 60. 6.1 REVOLUTIONARY PARALLELISM  Identity politics, by its very concept, assumes a certain parallelism: so structures of subordination (gender, racial, class…) share some common elements this makes possible processes of translation among the analytical and political traditions. Only on the field of biopolitical struggles, composed by parallelism and multiplicity, can a revolutionary struggle for the common be successfully pursued.
  • 61. 6.1 REVOLUTIONARY PARALLELISM modernity identity-property-sovereignty is been replaced in by altermodernity singularity-the common-revolution Revolution is now, finally, becoming the order of the day.
  • 62. 6.2 INSURRECTIONAL INTERSECTIONS  ¿Crisis of representation, "democratic deficit"— in the global context?  What is lacking, are the mechanisms of measure that identity and representation require.  The process of articulation of insurrectional intersections is an ontological process. That also drive us to an ontological transformation of the conditions of decision making itself.
  • 63. 6.2 INSURRECTIONAL INTERSECTIONS  Revolutionary struggle must be consolitaded and reinforce in a new form of institution: 1. based on conflict 2. consolidate collective habits, practices, and capacities that designate a form of life 3. are open-ended in that they are continually transformed by the singularities that compose them. This notion of institution corresponds closely to what we called earlier "training in love" in that it does not reduce the multiplicity of singularities but creates a context for them to manage their encounters promoting de joyful ones
  • 64. 6.3 GOVERNING THE REVOLUTION  The process of transition rather than dialectical, is asymptotic, and is not spontaneous.  How can the transition be governed? What or who draws the political diagonal that guides the transition?  The way out of the impasse is to bring the political diagonal back to the biopolitical diagram, that is, to ground it in an investigation o f the capacities people already exercise in their daily lives and, specifically, in the processes of biopolitical production.
  • 65. 6.3 GOVERNING THE REVOLUTION  Problems to overcome about these capacities that people already exercise in their daily lives: 1. first, the autonomy of biopolitical production is only partial, since it is still directed and constrained under the command of capital; 2. and second, these economic capacities are not immediately expressed as political capacities.
  • 66. 6.3 GOVERNING THE REVOLUTION  Gramsci, with his notion of “pasive revolution”, is in many ways a prophet of the biopolitical diagram.  He seems to intuit that the transformation of the technical composition of the proletariat, will break down the divisions between structure and superstructure, bringing culture and social relations directly into the realm of economic value and production. He even grasps that the new technical composition implies a new production of subjectivity.
  • 67. 6.3 GOVERNING THE REVOLUTION  Our inclination is to appropriate this concept of governance, subvert its imperial vocation, and reformulate it as a concept of democracy and revolution.  We find some potential in the notion of federalism by which some theorists understand functions of global governance.
  • 68. 6.3 GOVERNING THE REVOLUTION  Connection with a group of German legal theorists who build on Niklas Luhmann s systems theories: GuntherTeubner and Andreas Fischer-Lescano… This group of German Negri & Hardt fragmentation multiplicity of singularities overflowing relation between labor and value network logic in the governance of cooperation of biopolitical production exceptional normative situations social conflict as the basis for basis for the revolutionary contingent legal frameworks notion of institution
  • 69. 6.3 GOVERNING THE REVOLUTION A revolutionary process today will have to be governed by a Rechtswollen, that is, an institutional and constitutional will , which, in a parallel way, articulates the singularities of the multitude, along with its diverse instances of revolt and rebellion, in a powerful and lasting common process.
  • 70. DE SINGULARITATE 2: INSTITUTING HAPPINESS  Happiness should become once again today a political concept. Happiness as a pleasure that lasts and repeats, and of collective nature.  Being is not fixed once and for all in some otherworldly realm but constantly subject to a process of becoming. Human nature similarly is not immutable but rather open to a process of training and education.  Change is possible at the most basic level of our world and our selves and that we can intervene in this process to orient it along the lines of our desires, toward happiness.
  • 71. DE SINGULARITATE 2: INSTITUTING HAPPINESS conceptions of happiness, joy, How can we restore or reinvent such political and love for our world? 1.Provide basic means of life for all, throughout the world, a global guaranteed income and truly universal health care, 2.demand equality against hierarchy, allowing everyone to become capable of participating in the constitution of society, collective self-rule, and constructive interaction with others. This means: basic education, a global citizenship. 3.open access to the common against the barriers of private property
  • 72. DE SINGULARITATE 2: INSTITUTING HAPPINESShappiness will constantly be  The process of instituting accompanied by laughter.  Ours is also a laugh of creation and joy, anchored solidly in the present.  Ours is finally a laugh of destruction, the laugh of armed angels which accompanies the combat against evil, nothing to do with hatred.  The extirpation in ourselves of our attachments to identity and, in general, the conditions of our enslavement will be extraordinarily painful, but still we laugh.
  • 73. Contact  Alberto.revolware@gmail.com  http://www.gredos.org/commonwealth /  http:// www.facebook.com/pages/Commonwe