Ayrıntı Yayınları Devrimin Zamanı / Antonio Negri

It's time for revolution is a book that traces the twenty-year development of negri's thought, especially the emergence and elaboration of two key concepts such as empire and multitude; it consists of the essay titled the formation of time by the thinker, and the books called kairòs, alma venus, multitudo.

In these texts, the author contemplates the philosophical challenges, which he calls aporia, related to marx's notion of "time as a capitalist measure," and concepts such as "proletarian self-valorization" and "coalitions of cooperating multiplicities" that he personally developed. he explains these challenges to the reader, proposing a revolutionary understanding of capitalism's time. according to negri, "it is not possible to think of revolution without a materialist, dynamic, and collective perception of time." this new temporal order is crucial for understanding the transformation of capitalism. the basic unit used in measuring labor and surplus value is the working hour. however, this understanding of time in capitalism abstracts real labor; in other words, the diversity behind labor is reduced to a complex, productive force, a quantitative unit, thus replacing quality with quantity. in the transformation of capitalism, time has gradually lost even its characteristic of being a measure, becoming the essence of life and production.

"when we come to kairòs, alma venus, multitudo, global capitalism has reached different dimensions, and has taken the form of an unlimited and decentralized empire, which includes three basic forms of governance - monarchy, aristocracy and democracy. the plurality is also the subject of the empire. the plurality will now accept that there is no ""outside"" beyond an empire, it will gnaw it from ""inside"" and demand changes in the composition of the political components of the empire... in negri's philosophy of time, poverty and love are also tightly connected. love is an ontological founding force, a biopolitical force; it is the founding practice of time and space, the common."

A profound philosophical statement from the pen of one of our era's most important thinkers: f. jameson.

Here we discover a completely different negri, one deeply immersed in a philosophical, even theological, problem. reading this book is essential. it offers a background suitable for negri's analysis of global capitalism and his nomadic empire.