Construir la multitud. Repensar con Foucault el proyecto de resistencia al neoliberalismo

Resumen

The publication of Empire, for over a decade, has been a central political and philosophical event in our age. In this work, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri make an attempt to rebuild the Marxian project, in order to list the contradictions of contemporary capitalism. Largely relying on the analyses made by Paolo Virno, they construct a critical building where subjectivity processes play a crucial role. Thus, the category of multitude appears as postmodern translation of the factory proletariat, in a great descriptive power movement. Despite this strength, theorizing of the multitude is burdened by the persistence of a Marxist economicism which distorts the critical analysis of the present. At this point the Michel Foucault’s philosophical framework allows us to produce a double articulation with the proposal of authors: on the one hand it supports the analysis of neoliberalism, and on the other hand, it provides a historical depth and conceptual density that prevents all idealization and divorce from history of multitude. In the following pages we will try to interweave that definition with Foucault's critical ontology, taking as a starting point a strategic perspective to understand the multitude as a project and not as a prophecy.