Resumen

ASTORGA, Omar. Hardt and Negri in Latin America: disagreements on the ways of interpreting power. EPISTEME [online]. 2013, vol.33, n.2, pp.111-130. ISSN 0798-4324.

The purpose of the present article is to present how Hardt and Negri’s work has been perceived by some representatives of the Latin-American critic considering some fundamental aspects related to the debates arising from the ways of interpreting the coloniality of power. Here we will briefly address two issues: in the first place, the discussion that has come about the ideas of Empire and Multitude within the political interpretation framework of modernity. For this we will consider Santiago Castro Gómez, Walter Mignolo and Ernesto Laclau’s interpretations. Secondly, we will highlight the debate surrounding Commonwealth in the so-called transition from modernity to postmodernity. Here we would like to address the appropriation that Hardt and Negri would make of the Latin American critic. We’d like to emphasize that although Hardt and Negri have become very important partners of some sectors of this critic, theoretical and ideological disagreements predominate based on different conceptions of modernity and colonialism rooted in unequal narratives around the sense and future of the politics.

Palabras clave : empire; multitude; commonwealth.

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