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www.egs.edu Michael Hardt talking about love, politics, political philosophy, prison, research, empire, globalization, democracy, capitalism, domination, liberalism, liberation, struggle, activism, freedom, afghanistan, iraq, election, crisis, representation, constitution, Antonio Negri, and Baruch Spinoza. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2005 Michael Hardt. Michael Hardt, born 1960 is an American literary theorist and political philosopher based at Duke University. He is the author of Gilles Deleuze: an Apprenticeship in Philosophy, and Labor of Dionysus: a Critique of the State-form, with Antonio Negri and 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. In the Fall of 2009, a new co-authored book titled Commonwealth will be published. Sometimes referred to as the "Communist Manifesto of the 21st Century", Empire proposes that the forces of current class oppression, namely - corporate globalization and commodification of services (or "production of affects") have the potential to fuel social change of unprecedented dimensions. Born in Washington DC, Hardt attended Winston Churchill High School in ...