Nonstop Presents! “On the Multitude and the Common”

Live teleconference discussion with Michael Hardt, Thursday, June 17th, 7 PM, Nonstop Institute, 305 N. Walnut St.

This is the fifth in a continuing series of Nonstop video conferences on education and public intellectual practice.

“On the Multitude and the Common,” discussion with political philosopher Michael Hardt

Please join us in welcoming Professor Hardt for his Nonstop videoconference on June 17 at 7 p.m. as he engages our local community in dialogue on the possibilities of cooperative resistance to the new global order. This event is free of charge. As a charitable tax-exempt non-profit organization, Nonstop welcomes donations. For more information contact dan.reyes@nonstopinstitute.org or iveta.jusova@nonstopinstitute.org

Internationally acclaimed political philosopher and literary theorist Michael Hardt (Professor of Literature at Duke and author, with Antonio Negri, of Empire, Multitude, Commonwealth and other books) joins Nonstop for a live teleconference discussion drawing upon key insights from his work concerning the contemporary social, cultural and political fields of possibility.

Examining existing and emergent circumstances endemic to this post-industrial day of increasing global connectivity, Hardt and Negri observe a significant shift taking place with implications both for individual consciousness and the possibilities of political practice. The growing influence of economic and social activity reliant on decentralized information- and communication-intensive production gives rise in turn to new sets of faculties, resources and domains irreducible to privatization. Networks of cooperation, which help create these new kinds of social spaces, may well contribute to bringing about a deeply participatory and dynamic alternative social order. According to Hardt and Negri, the power of resistance is much stronger than what we might think. For the first time ever, the authors optimistically suggests, we might come to realize the prospect of creating true democracy.