A review by alexander0
Empire by Antonio Negri, Michael Hardt

3.0

This book is a patchwork of theories that have been synthesized at a blistering pace. What makes this masterful is that it does so in a way that enlightens us to a new paradigm of governance, power, and economy. The downside of this is that there are so many open questions and ways in which this book does not deal well with someone on the look out for paradoxes in theories that are suddenly mashed together. This book is not a functioning body; it's an undead, unawakened Frankenstein.

I can use this book for talking points, or hypothetical starting points for research, but I'm more likely to pull from _The Stack_ and affiliated work for my field. There has since been a lot of work which is more consistent about facets of this book.