Michael Hardt

Michael Hardt presents his new history book The Subversive Seventies. In it, progressive and revolutionary movements of the 70s across the globe provide an inspiring and useful guide for contemporary radical political thought and action. This event is co-presented with Red May Seattle. In The Subversive Seventies, Michael Hardt argues that the 60s were a crucial historical turning point we can certainly learn from its movements, but, fundamentally, they marked the end of an era. The 1970s, in contrast, herald the beginning of our time. In response to the insurgencies of the 60s, new structures of power, many of which are now grouped under the name neoliberalism, were tested and institutionalized, and are essentially the same ones that rule over us today. The progressive and revolutionary struggles of the 70s, then, constituted an initial set of experiments for confronting our current conjuncture, a first test of the terrain. Feminist and gay liberation movements, worker and anticolonial struggles, antinuclear and antiracist projects, along with many others liberation efforts developed in the 70s offer us not only initial analyses of today’s structures of economic and political domination, but also forms of critique and resistance most effective against them. Michael Hardt teaches political theory in the Literature Program at Duke University. He is co-author, with Antonio Negri, of the Empire triliogy and, most recently, Assembly. He is co-director with Sandro Mezzadra of The Social Movements Lab.

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