Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 22:25:51 -0100
From: hbone <hbone-AT-optonline.net>
Subject: What is Empire about? - production


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Steve/All,
 
Continuing the effort to understand how certain words are used in Empire, we come to "production". 
 
The dictionary gave 5 definitions, four about manufacturing, one about quantum physics.
 
Trying "produce", the dictionary gave 7 definitions,  referring to other words such as, bring to view, yield, make, create.

The usual meaning of "production" in an economic context is the manufacture of products, however, the use of the word in the items below,
is an aid to understanding the way the authors apply that term to immaterial  concepts. 
p13 - biopolitical production, the production of social life itself, in which the economic, the political, and the cultural increasingly overlap and invest one another.

16 - In the imperial world the economist, for example, needs a basic knowledge of cultural production to understand the economy, and likewise the cultural critic needs a basic knowledge of economic processes to understand culture.

17 - production is understood in a very broad sense, ranging from economic production ther a new inscription of authority and a new design of the production of norms and legal instruments of coercion that guarantee contracts and resolve conflicts.

22 - the notion of right defined by the U. N. Charter also points toward a new positive source of juridical production effective on a global scale -- a new center of normative production that can play a sovereign juridical role.

27 - This is really the point of departure for our study of Empire: a new notion of right....

37 - what we are witnessing is a process of the material constitution of the new planetary order, the consolidation of its administrative machine, and the production of new hierarchies of command over global space.

41 - We should understand the society of control, in contrast, as that society (which develops at the far edge of modernity and opens toward the postmodern) in which mechanisms of demand become ever more "democratic,' ever more immanent to the social field distributed throughout the brains and bodies of the citizens. The behaviors of social integration and exclusion proper to rule are thus increasingly interiorized within the subjects themselves.

46 - Deleuze and Guattari discover the productivity of social reproduction (creative production of values, social relations, affects, becomings), but manage to articulate it only superficially and ephemerally, as a chaotic, indeterminate horizon marked by the ungraspable event.

48 - The analysis must be proposed not through ideal forms but within the dense complex of experience.

49 - The transnational corporations directly distribute labor power over various markets, functionally allocate resources, and organize hierachically the various sectors of world production.

50 - One site where we should locate the biopolitical production of order is in the immaterial nexuses of the production of language, communication, and the symbolic that are developed by the communications industries.

51 - What the theories of power of modernity were forced to consider transcendent , that is external to productive and social relations, is here formed inside, immanent to the productive and social relations. 






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