Common terms in Multitude. Anyone have a clue what they mean? 

Multitude

The common

Biopolitical production

Empire Democracy

Sovereignty (redefined)

Swarm Intelligence

Singularity

Distributed systems

imperial vs. emperialism

Multitude? Multitude is a project of democracy on a global scale.

Biopolitical production? Two characteristics within multitude that involves the production of material goods in a strictly economic sense but also touches on the common expansion in producing all facets of social life.
The common?  It is one of two characteristics of the multitude (the first being economic).  The common is based on communication, collaboration, and cooperation not so it is not so much shared as it is produced.  The common is the primary characteristic of the new dominant forms of labor today.  The relies on the common knowledge passed down from others to create new knowledge. 

Sovereignty (redefined)?  Is a network of power under the Empire that includes as it’s primary elements, the dominant nation-states along with supranational institutions, major capitalist corporations, and other powers that cooperate to create and maintain the current global order.

Empire?  Rules over a global order in which war functions as the instrument of rule.

 Democracy?  A system of government -- for the people by the people (for all by all).Swarm Intelligence?     Singularity? Distributed systems? imperial vs. emperialism?  I don’t believe I have a full understanding of the difference of the two as of yet but I believe as of now I believe them to be forms of sovereignty.      Today is part of forever.

Now, in Multitude, how the people of the world can use the structures of empire against empire itself. With the enormous intellectual depth, historical perspective, and positive, enabling spirit that are the authors' hallmark, Multitude lays down in three parts a powerful case for hope. Part I, "War," examines the darkest aspects of empire. We are at a crisis point in human affairs, when the new circuits of power have grown beyond the ability of existing circuits of political sovereignty and social justice to contain them.

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