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NOTES
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TO
PAGES 294-3
1 0
the Age of Intellectual Property (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
2007).
22.
For an example of interpreting workers' struggles as the motor of eco-
nomic
cycles and crises, see Antonio
Negri,
"Marx
on
Cycle
and
Crisis,"
in
Revolution
Retrieved,
trans.
Ed Emery and John Merrington (London:
Red
Notes, 1988), pp. 43-90.
23.
For analyses
that
highlight in very different ways the autonomy and cre-
ativity
of
biopolitical
labor, see
McKenzieWark,
A Hacker Manifesto (Cam-
bridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004); and Richard
Florida,
The
Rise
of the Creative Class
(NewYork:
Basic Books, 2002).
24. For Marx's definition of the
rate
of surplus value, which we rewrite
here,
see
Karl
Marx,
Capital,
vol.
1,
trans.
Ben Fowkes
(NewYork:Vintage,
1976),
p.
326.
25.
Thomas Jefferson
uses
this phrase—"we have the
wolf
by the
ears"—to
capture
why in his view the United
States
could neither continue the sys-
tem
of
black
slavery nor abolish it. See Jefferson to John Holmes, 22
April
1820, in Writings, ed.
Merrill
Peterson (New
York:
Library
of
America,
1984), pp. 1433-35.
26.
See Christian
Marazzi,
Capital and Language,
trans.
Gregory
Conti
(Cam-
bridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008).
27.
This ideological episode of the Cultural Revolution has inspired, among
others, Debord and
Badiou.
See Guy Debord, The
Society
of the Spectacle,
trans.
Donald Nicholson-Smith
(NewYork:
Zone Books, 1994), p. 35; and
Alain
Badiou,
The Century,
trans.
Alberto Toscano (Cambridge:
Polity,
2007), pp. 58-67.
28.
MarioTronti,
Operai e
capitale,
2nd ed. (Turin:
Einaudi,
1971), p. 89.
29.
We
call
this situation,
following
Marx,
the real subsumption of society
within
capital. On Marx's notion of the real subsumption, see Capital,
1:1019-38.
30.
For an analysis
that
anticipates this situation in the 1970s, see Antonio Ne-
gri,
"Marx
on
Cycle
and
Crisis,"
in Revolution
Retrieved,
trans.
Ed Emery
and John Merrington (London: Red Notes, 1988), pp. 43-90.
31.
On industrial time discipline and its progressive generalization throughout
society, see E.
P.Thompson,"Time,Work-Discipline,
and Industrial
Capi-
talism,"
Past
&
Present,
no. 38 (1967), 56—97. On the
debates
among Ger-
man sociologists
about
the Entgrenzung der Arbeit, see
Karin
Gottschall and
Harald
Wolf,
"Introduction: Work Unbound,"
Critical
Sociology 33 (2007),
11-18. We are grateful to Stephan Manning for drawing our attention to
this literature.
32.
For an interpretation of the "Chapter on Money" in Marx's Grundrisse, see
Antonio
Negri,
Marx
beyond
Marx,
trans.
Harry Cleaver,
Michael
Ryan,
and
MaurizioViano
(NewYork:
Autonomedia, 1991), pp. 21—40.
33.
On the
failing
rate
of
profit
and economic crisis, see Robert Brenner, The
Boom
and the Bubble. The U.S. in the World
Economy
(London:Verso,
2002).
34. On the characteristics of the
entrepreneur,
see Joseph Schumpeter, The
Theory
of Economic
Development
(1911),
trans.
Redvers Opie (Cambridge,
Mass.:
Harvard University Press, 1934), pp. 128-156. On the obsolescence
of
the
entrepreneur,
see Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
(NewYork:
Harper & Brothers, 1942), pp. 131-134.
35.
Karl
Marx
and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (Oxford: Ox-
ford
University Press, 1992), p. 8.
36.
See, for example, Henryk Grossmann, The Law of Accumulation and Break-
down
of Capitalist
Systems:
Being Also a
Theory
of Crises (1929),
trans.
Jairus
Banaji
(London: Pluto Press, 1992).
37.
Some contemporary heterodox economists sketch the outlines of a
postcapitalist future. See, for example,
J.
K.
Gibson-Graham, A Postcapitalist
Politics
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006); and
Michael
Albert,
Parecon:
Life
after
Capitalism
(London:Verso,
2003).
38.
Ernesto
Laclau,
On Populist
Reason
(London:Verso, 2005), p. 95.
39.
For our most extended discussion of the conflict between
political
repre-
sentation and democracy, see Hardt and
Negri,
Multitude, pp. 241—247.
40.
See
Achille
Mbembe,
"Necropolitics,"
Public Culture 15, no. 1 (2003), 11-
40.
On the disastrous physical conditions of metropolises in subordinated
parts
of the
world,
see
Mike
Davis,
Planet of
Slums
(London:
Verso,
2006).
41.
Christopher
Newfield
emphasizes the need in the
biopolitical
economy
for
a public with higher education in the humanities and social sciences.
See Unmaking the Public University (Cambridge,
Mass.:
Harvard University
Press, 2008).
42.
On the need for a common intellectual, cultural, and communication in-
frastructure, see
Yochai
Benkler, The
Wealth
of
Networks
(New
Haven:
Yale
University
Press, 2006).
43.
Many
economists have detailed how such a
guaranteed
income is feasible
in
the dominant countries—serious proposals have been advanced in Eu-
rope and the United
States—but
obviously in the subordinated
parts
of
the
world,
where the
percentage
of the population whose capacities are
thwarted by poverty is much higher, such a system would be even more
important. The
Brazilian
government's experiment with the
"family
sti-
pend"
(bolsa
familia), which distributes money to poor families in a way