Metropolis
Metropolis

Summary/Abstract: This article is part of the fourth chapter recent book by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Commonwealth, to a much greater extent than their previous work concerned urban motifs. Included in the proposal is an attempt to approach the contemporary the city in terms of biopolitical what it odróżniałoby from earlier forms of spatial organization, for example, an industrial city and allowed the passage of urban form to the form of the metropolitan. The main thesis text says that because of the changes taking place today on the basis of production and labor, metropolis takes place previously reserved for the factory ("metropolis is the for many, the class factory workers industrial "). It becomes infinite at the same time the walls of the production area of the commons, and the object of contestation focusing on the face of the power imperial and capitalist exploitation. The authors analyze here also two consecutive quality which defines the de & metropolis: the unexpected meetings and issues resistance organization (in the form of urban insurgency called żakeriami). When you recognize these qualities together, argue Hardt and Negri, you must agree with the thesis that the metropolis is the place where the multiplicity is their home

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