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This chapter considers the work of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, who argue that the globalised world has become locked into a condition of oppression, the only way out of which is to empower individuals to work within a group. Instead of coalescing as a mass (“the people”), Hardt and Negri encourage us to tap into the productive “biopolitics” of our community (“the multitude”). With echoes of the three main contemporary ideas we introduced in Chapter 2 (Wikinomics, Cognitive Capitalism and Post-capitalism), our consideration of Hardt and Negri serves as a conclusion to the first section of our book, discussing the theoretical frameworks that surround the idea of a collaborative economy.
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Savage, K., Symonds, D. (2018). Biopolitics. In: Economies of Collaboration in Performance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95210-9_4
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