Around the Nation: September 19, 2007

Michael Hardt teaches in the literature program at Duke University in North Carolina. He is author most recently of Empire (2000) and Multitude (2004), both co-written with Antonio Negri. "The guiding hypothesis of this lecture will be that the metropolis is to the multitude what the factory was to the industrial working class. That means, at a first level of analysis, that the center of gravity of production is now located outside of the factory walls, on the social terrain of metropolitan encounters. But it also means, at a second, deeper level, that this is the terrain, on the one hand, of exploitation and antagonism and, on the other, of the generation of social alternatives through the production of common languages, networks and social relations. Such metropolitan encounters--between social multiplicity and the production of the common--are at the heart of the multitude." Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall, GSAPP, Columbia University. www.arch.columbia.edu/events Organized by Volume magazine and C-Lab. Free and open t0 the public.

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