A Biopolítica Enquanto Potência da Vida: contrapoder e os biopoderes contemporâneos

A abordagem crítica sobre a obra de Antonio Negri e Michael Hardt, acerca dos conceitos de biopoder e império, é orientada, neste artigo, em particular, para o modo como Hardt e Hardt são, simultaneamente, tributários do pensamento de Michel Foucault sobre bipolítica e avançam, por outro lado, novas possibilidades críticas e de contrapoder, na forma de potência da vida, contra a vigilância e o controlo na experiência actual. / The critical approach to Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s work, on the concepts of bio-power and empire, is oriented, in this article, particularly towards the way Hardt and Negri are, simultaneously, tributary to Michel Foucault’s thought on bio-politics and advance, on the other hand, new critical possibilities of counter-power, in the form of life potency, against surveillance and control in current experience

An Induction Principle for the Weighted p-Energy Minimality of x/|x|

In this paper, we investigate minimizing properties of the map $x/\|x\|$ from the Euclidean unit ball $\mathbf{B}^{n}$ to its boundary $\mathbb{S}^{n-1}$, for the weighted energy functionals $E^n\_{p,\alpha}(u)=\int\_{\mathbf{B}^{n}} \|x\|^{\alpha}\|\nabla u\|^p dx$. We establish the following induction principle: if the map $\frac{x}{\|x\|}:\mathbf{B}^{n+1}\to \mathbb{S}^n$ minimizes $E^{n+1}\_{p,\alpha}$ among the maps $u: \mathbf{B}^{n+1}\to \mathbb{S}^n$ satisfying $u(x)=x$ on $\mathbb{S}^n$, then the map $\frac{y}{\|y\|}:\mathbf{B}^n\to\mathbb{S}^{n-1}$ minimizes $E^{n}\_{p,\alpha+1}$ among the maps $v: \mathbf{B}^n\to\mathbb{S}^{n-1}$ satisfying $v(y)=y$ on $\mathbb{S}^{n-1}$. This result enables us to enlarge the range of values of $p$ and $\alpha$ for which $x/\|x\|$ minimizes $E^n\_{p,\alpha}$.Comment: 8 page

The New 'Hidden Abode': Reflections on Value and Labour in the New Economy

This paper engages with the works of Autonomist Marxists, such as Hardt, Negri and Arvidsson, who have argued that the so-called ‘new economy’, which is characterized by a new importance of immaterial labour, knowledge and processes of consumption, gives rise to a new law of value and changed labour relations in what they call the ‘social factory’. While we see a lot of value in this emerging body of literature – particularly in terms of its potential for critiquing relatively narrow debates in critical organization and management studies – this paper critiques the highly optimistic analyses put forward by Hardt, Negri and Arvidsson, especially with regard to their claims for a new autonomy and freedom of labour emerging out of the ‘new economy’. We counter these claims by showing how in contemporary capitalism, despite the discourses of autonomy and freedom, labour is continuously subjected to control, measurement and governance

Foundation and empire : a critique of Hardt and Negri

In this article, Thompson complements recent critiques of Hardt and Negri's Empire (see Finn Bowring in Capital and Class, no. 83) using the tools of labour process theory to critique the political economy of Empire, and to note its unfortunate similarities to conventional theories of the knowledge economy

Paul Hardt

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Hva kan forklare nedgangen i antall drepte eller hardt skadde i trafikken i Norge etter 2000? Artikel

Fra 2000 til 2019 gikk antall drepte eller hardt skadde i trafikken i Norge ned med mer enn 50 %. Antall drepte gikk ned med nesten 70 %. Mange faktorer har bidratt til nedgangen. De tre viktigste er tiltak på vegnettet, sikrere biler og lavere fart. Økt bruk av bilbelter, økt bruk av automatisk trafikkontroll og økt bruk av sykkelhjelm har også bidratt. Nedgangen i antall drepte eller hardt skadde fra 2000 til 2019, beregnet med en trendlinje, var på 800 personer (fra 1479 til 679). Til sammen kan de faktorer det er mulig å beregne virkninger av, forklare 59 % av denne nedgangen. Det vil si at antall drepte eller hardt skadde i 2019 ville ha vært 1149 (i stedet for 679) dersom disse faktorene ikke hadde bidratt. Det har ikke lykkes å forklare hele nedgangen i antall drepte eller hardt skadde. Andre faktorer enn dem denne studien har identifisert, må derfor også ha bidratt til den gunstige utviklingen. Det kan ikke utelukkes at rapporteringen av hardt skadde i trafikken er redusert i den perioden studien omfatter