Michael Hardt (born 1960) is an American literary theorist and political philosopher based at Duke University. Perhaps his most famous work is "Empire" written with Antonio Negri. The sequel to "Empire", called "Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire", was released in August, 2004, and details the idea of the multitude (which Hardt and Negri initially elaborated in "Empire") as the potential site of a global democratic movement. Wikipedia
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BY Michael Hardt The World Social Forum at Porto Alegre has become symbolic of the forces beginning to shape a front of common resistance to the pattern of imperial globalization. makeworlds.org/node/25
BY Michael Hardt Civil society is proposed as an essential feature of any democracy: the institutional infrastructure for political mediation and public exchange. makeworlds.org/node/99