Democracy on the Defensive: An interview with Michael Hardt, Co-Author of "Empire" and "Multitude". By Glenn Brigaldino. Globalization is swiftly mutating from an economic and political process of the introduction of liberal capitalism and global interdependencies to an openly aggressive, US-driven neo-imperial type of rule over societies and their institutions. Political theorists and authors Antonio Negro and Michael Hardt have analysed and situated 21st century "Empire" in its historical context. Michael Hardt shares his views on a mix of current questions on historical and potentially new political struggles for global democracy. Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]