19 and 20: Notes for a New Insurrection: Notes for a New Insurrection (Updated 20th Anniversary Edition) - Softcover

 
9781942173489: 19 and 20: Notes for a New Insurrection: Notes for a New Insurrection (Updated 20th Anniversary Edition)

Synopsis

The federal government created a monster. They said it would keep us safe. The monster hatched in November 2002. It was named the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). An appetite for control and conquest was in its DNA. Its early influences, in the years after 9/11, were paranoia and vengeance. The DHS is the only new department the United States has spawned in this century. With its birth, issues that were previously seen as separate—immigration control, policing, and counter-terrorism—were brought into a single, sprawling entity. Twenty-two preexisting agencies were absorbed into what became the nation’s third largest government department. Today it has a budget of over $100 billion and employs a quarter of a million people. Every danger is now conceived of as a threat to “homeland security,” and as the 9/11 Commission said in 2003, “the American homeland is the planet.”

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About the Authors

Colectivo Situaciones is a collective of militant researchers based in Buenos Aires. They have participated in numerous grassroots co-research activities with unemployed workers, peasant movements, neighborhood assemblies, and alternative education experiments.

Michael Hardt (b. 1960) is a political philosopher and literary theorist, best known for three books he co-authored with Antonio Negri: Empire (2000), Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (2004), and Commonwealth (2009). Michael Hardt is a professor of literature at Duke University and a professor of philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS.

Antonio Negri (b.1933 in Padua, Italy) is an Italian political philosopher and sociologist.

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