enough! (or, too much)

[joculum]

A Footnote to a New Theory of entirely too much

I guess to do it right I would have to add how globalization has created a planet full of contending cultures such as previously existed only in isolated zones, and I would have to bring my theory into contention against those three books that Everybody Has Read Or Pretends He or She Has Read: Empire, Multitudes, and now Commonwealth.

But cut me some slack, I just now figured out how all this fits together, and I have always had difficulty framing all this in terms of Commonly Accepted Categories, even though it consists of a bunch of commonly accepted categories, just categories commonly accepted in different academic disciplines, which don’t seem to like to converse with one another.

Comments

[sheherazahde.livejournal.com]

I found "Multitudes", and "Commonwealth", but is "Empire" Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power" by Niall Ferguson?

I really love reading your posts!

[joculum.livejournal.com]

No, no, this is the triad by that famous duo Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Empire was the one that started it all, so ubiquitous that you can even download a pirated version, or could as of earlier this year. I don't recommend their clotted prose per se, it's just the trendy artworld reading for the past several years because it offers a neo-Marxist Reading of Absolutely Everything Out There. Not my fave set of books. I would want to have an argument with them, were I to attempt it.