Beuys, Hardt and Negri: One World ‒ One Consciousness
Journal: Athens Journal of Humanities and Arts
Year: 2015

With the “Social Turn” in art, ideas proposed by Joseph Beuys (1918-1986) gain renewed currency. Today, Beuys’s concept of Social Sculpture may be compared to what Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri define as the biopolitical because it produces relationships, networks and subjectivities. One of Beuys’ platforms was democracy, defined by Hardt and Negri as the rule by all based on relationships of equality and freedom. For Hardt and Negri, democracy of the multitude is peace without war. Remarkably