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<div class="moz-forward-container">Liebe Leute,<br>
<br>
ein interessantes Buch das vielleicht den bitter notwendigen Geist
"horizontaler Demokratie" auch nach Graz bringen könnten. Ein
Grund für das Scheitern der Murszene ist ja der eklatante Mangel
an Transparenz und Demokratie. Nur Miteinander und nicht in
isolierten Blasen können wir etwas erreichen!<br>
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lg<br>
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Martin Mair<br>
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<p><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Talks
by Michael
Hardt and Antonio Negri </span></b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Chaired by
WIAS Director Christian Fuchs</span></b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Drinks
reception
and book signing</span></b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<h1 style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">Thursday 12
October 2017</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal"><br>
</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">18:00
– 21:00</span><span
style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal"><br>
</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">Fyvie
Hall</span><span
style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal"><br>
</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">309
Regent Street</span><span
style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal"><br>
</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">University
of Westminster<br>
London W1B 2HW</span><span
style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></h1>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">This
event is
co-organised with Oxford University Press (OUP) and launches<em> </em></span><em><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"><a
href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/assembly-9780190677961?cc=gb&lang=en&%20"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Assembly</span></a></span></em><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">, Antonio
Negri and Michael Hardt’s follow-up book to the Empire
trilogy consisting of “Empire” (2000), “Multitude” (2004)
and “Commonwealth”
(2009).</span><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">In the
face of
rising right-wing movements and governments throughout the
world, along with
the ever-increasing control of finance over social life,
forms of protest and
resistance that disrupt the ruling order are essential. But
they are not
enough. How can today’s social movements transform
themselves so as to initiate
a process of liberation and create the bases for a lasting
social alternative?</span><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Each
year a new
eruption of “leaderless” social movements — from North
Africa and the Middle
East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia — leaves
journalists, political
analysts, police forces, and governments disoriented and
perplexed. Activists
too struggle to understand and evaluate the power and
effectiveness of
horizontal movements. Why have the movements, which address
the needs and
desires of so many, not been able to achieve lasting change
and create a new, more
democratic and just society? Some people assume that if only
social movements
could find new leaders they would return to their earlier
glory. Where, they
ask, are the new Martin Luther Kings, Rudi Dutschkes, and
Stephen Bikos?</span><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Although
today’s
leaderless and spontaneous political organizations are not
sufficient, a return
to traditional, centralized forms of political leadership is
neither desirable
nor possible. Necessary, instead, as Michael Hardt and
Antonio Negri argue, is
an inversion of the roles of the multitude and leadership in
political
organizations. Leaders should be confined to short-term,
tactical action, while
the multitude drives strategy. In other words, the
formulation of long-term
goals and objectives must come from the collective, rather
than designated
figureheads. Drawing on the ideas developed through their
well-known Empire
trilogy, Hardt and Negri have produced, in <em>Assembly</em>,
a timely proposal for how current
large-scale, horizontal movements can develop collectively
the capacities for
political strategy and decision-making to effect lasting and
democratic change.</span><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"><span><br>
</span></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Michael
Hardt </span></b><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">teaches
in the Literature Program at Duke University and is
co-director of the Social
Movements Lab. He serves as editor of The South Atlantic
Quarterly.</span><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Antonio Negri </span></b><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">taught at
the University of
Padua and the University of Paris VIII. He has been one of
the central
figures of Italian autonomist Marxism. His work is devoted
to studies of
political philosophy and the analysis of capitalism and
globalization.</span><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Hardt
and Negri</span></b><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> have
co-authored the
books <em>Labor of Dionysus</em> (1994), <em>Empire</em> (2000), <em>Multitude</em> (2004), <em>Commonwealth</em> (2009), <em>Declaration</em> (2012),
and <em>Assembly</em> (2017).
Their books are considered to be among the most influential
works in political
philosophy today.</span><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Christian
Fuchs<span style="letter-spacing:0.4pt"> </span></span></b><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:0.4pt">is
a Marxist theorist of
society and communication. He is Director of the Westminster
Institute for
Advanced Studies (WIAS) and the Communication and Media
Research Institute
(CAMRI) at the University of Westminster.</span><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Register
via
Eventbrite: <a
href="http://wias.ac.uk/event/book-launch-assembly-by-michael-hardt-and-antonio-negri/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://wias.ac.uk/event/book-launch-assembly-by-michael-hardt-and-antonio-negri/</a></span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">Best
wishes,</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">Westminster
Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS)</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
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