Laser powered Negri
For many, these multitudes that are not peoples or nations or even communities are one more instance of the insecurity and chaos that has resulted from the collapse of the modern social order. They are social catastrophes of postmodernity, similar in their minds to the horrible results of genetic engineering gone wrong or the terrifying consequences of industrial, nuclear or ecological disasters. … The monstrosity of the flesh is not a return to the state of nature, but a result of society, an artificial life. In the previous era, modern social order maintained, at least ideologically, despite constant innovation, a natural character – the natural identities, for example, of the family, the community, the people and the nation. In modernity, philosophies of vitalism could still protest against the damaging effects of technology, industrialization, and the commodification of existence by affirming the natural life force. … Every reference to life today, however, has to point to an artificial life, a social life.
– Hardt and Negri, Multitude, pp. 192-193 (my emphasis)
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