Antonio Negri Quotes on Time
Antonio Negri was an Italian Marxist political philosopher and revolutionary intellectual, a leading figure of the Italian operaismo movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and a co-author with Michael Hardt of the influential Empire trilogy. This page collects quotes attributed to Antonio Negri on the topic of time, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“Empire is emerging today as the center that supports the globalization of productive networks and casts its widely inclusive net to try to envelop all power relations within its world order — and yet at the same time it deploys a powerful police function against the new barbarians and the rebellious slaves who threaten its order.”
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“Philosophy is not the owl of Minerva that takes flight after history has been realized in order to celebrate its happy ending; rather, philosophy is subjective proposition, desire, and praxis that are applied to the event.”
(49) -
“Reality and history, however, are not dialectical, and no idealist rhetorical gymnastics can make them conform to the dialect.”
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“We share bodies with two eyes, ten fingers, ten toes; we share life on this earth; we share capitalist regimes of production and exploitation; we share common dreams of a better future.”
Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire | (128) -
“The possibility of democracy on a global scale is emerging today for the very first time.”
Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire | (xi)