Michael Hardt

Michael Hardt is an American literary theorist based at Duke University. Perhaps his most famous work is Empire written with Antonio Negri. The sequel to Empire, called Multitude, was released in August, 2004, and details the idea of the multitude (that Hardt and Negri vaguely and tenuously introduced in Empire) as a potential catalyst for a global democracy.

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American - Literary theorist - Duke University - Antonio Negri - Multitude

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Sometimes referred to as the "Communist Manifesto of the 21st Century", "Empire" proposes that the forces of current class oppression, namely - corporate globalization and commodification of services (or "production of affects") have the potential to fuel social change of unprecedented dimensions.

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Born in 1960 in Washington DC, Hardt was trained as an engineer in Pennsylvania. In 1983 he moved to Seattle to study comparative literature. From there he went to Paris where he would meet Negri and write his disertation under Negri's guidance.

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Seattle - Comparative literature

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Hardt has also worked with NGOs in Central America.

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