Michael Hardt. The Leadership Problem. 2014

http://www.egs.edu/ Michael Hardt, Philosopher, talking about the question of leadership and organization in recent uprisings and political movements, cycles of struggle, democracy, the Arab Spring, Occupy, the commons, the multitude, counter-power. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2014. Michael Hardt. Michael Hardt, Ph.D., born in Washington DC in 1960, is a political philosopher and literary theorist currently based at Duke University, North Carolina. While pursuing an undergraduate degree in engineering, Michael Hardt worked for solar energy companies in the United States and Italy. After college, in the early 1980s he became a part of the Sanctuary Movement, which helped refugees from Guatemala and El Salvador enter and stay in the United States with the aim of contesting the US funded wars. In the mid-1980s he became interested in radical Italian politics, met Antonio Negri, and began working together with him. Michael Hardt's recent writings focus primarily on deciphering various aspects of globalization. His most famous works, Empire (2000) and Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (2004) were written in collaboration with Antonio Negri and, according to some, became major events in political and critical theory. In 2009, these two works will be accompanied by the next part of the trilogy entitled Commonwealth. In 2012 Hardt and Negri published Declaration, a pamphlet addressed to the encampments and occupations that began in 2011. Michael Hardt is also the author of Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy (1993), Labor of Dionysus: A Critique of the State Form (co-written with Antonio Negri, 1994), Radical Thought in Italy (coedited with Paolo Virno, 1996), and The Jameson Reader (coedited with Kathi Weeks, 2000).