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jpowerj's review against another edition
3.0
Goddamn I finally finished this. That took me like 2 months, and I'm not sure it was worth it. Basically it's like ultra-ultra-dense with references and covers a ridiculously wide range of ideas, which is cool, but then the interesting insights are intermixed with a ton of like postmodern-y talk about biopolitical common singularities and subjectivities constituting multitudes and stuff. Here's a non-made-up quote I underlined from the very end: "The common is both natural and artificial; it is our first, second, third, and nth nature. There is no singularity, then, that is not itself established in the common ... On this biopolitical fabric, multitudes intersect with other multitudes, and from the thousand points of intersection, from the thousand rhizomes that link these multitudinous productions, from the thousand reflections born in every singularity emerge inevitably the life of the multitude." (pg 349)
So yeah 1 star off for not removing these nice-sounding but vacuous parts in between the actually interesting parts, and then 1 star off again because you kind of have to read "Empire" first I think, which I haven't read yet and which looks even longer than this one O___O
So yeah 1 star off for not removing these nice-sounding but vacuous parts in between the actually interesting parts, and then 1 star off again because you kind of have to read "Empire" first I think, which I haven't read yet and which looks even longer than this one O___O
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