Re: Hardt & Negri on Genoa

> > >   Secondly, just because the new
> > >world order is no longer neatly parcellized into sovereign
> > >territorial units doesn't mean it is non-hierarchical.  In fact, 
> > >Negri and Hardt make this argument quite explicitly.  To 
> them, the US
> > >represents the first tier of Empire (with fundamentalisms
> and various
> > >NGOs filling out the lower tiers).
> > 
> > There is no textual support for this interpretation.
> 
> There is none because my library copy has been recalled, so I
> have nothing to refer to right now.  If you have one, look it 
> up, I assure you it's there.  
> 
> --
> Boris Stremlin

The passage being referred to here is, I believe, on page 309 and
following, under the heading, "The Pyramid of Global Constitution"

"At the narrow pinnacle of the pyramid there is one superpower, the
United States, that holds the hegemony over the global use of force. . .
On a second level, still within this first tier, as the pyramid broadens
slightly, a group of nation-states control the primary global monetary
instruments and thus have the ability to regulate international
exchanges. 
... 
Below the highest tier of unified global command is a second tier in
which command is distributed broadly across the world, emphasizing not
so much unification as articulation. (...) The singe and univocal
pinnacle of world command is thus articulated by the transnational
corporations and the organization of markets. ... Still on the second
tier, on a level that is often subordinated to the power of
transnational corporations, reside the general set of sovereign
nation-states that now consist essentially in local, territorialized
organizations. 
... 
The third and broadest tier of the pyramid, finally, consists of groups
that represent popular interests in the global power arrangement."
(p.309-311)

I hope this helps.

Greg Wilpert

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Gregory Wilpert
Visiting Fulbright Professor
Escuela de Sociología
Universidad Central de Venezuela
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