ART AND MULTITUDE

Nine letters on art, written to friends from exile in France in the 1980s. Starting from earlier materialist approaches to art, Negr i relates artistic production to the structures of social production characteristic of each historical era. This enables him to defi ne the nature of both material and artistic production in the era of post-modernity and post-Fordism - the era Negri characterizes a s that of immaterial labour. Negri then seeks to define artistic beauty in this new era, and this he does in terms of concepts that have beco...[Read more]