A Revolt That Never Ends

Below is the film Antonio Negri: A Revolt That Never Ends. The film is a bio-pic on the life and thought of Antonio Negri, a radical Italian philosopher who advocates open revolt against the oppressive machination of industrial civilization.

The film traces Negri’s beginnings in the radical left-wing movements in Italy during the 60s and 70s, illustrated through incredible archival footage of strikes, factory occupations, terrorist actions, violent street confrontations, and government trials of dissidents. During these tumultuous decades Negri spent ten years in prison and fourteen years in Parisian exile, where he contributed to philosophical debates with authors such as Gilles Deleuze. Footage includes interviews with Negri (conducted following his April 2003 release from confinement), public speaking appearances, plus commentary from a variety of collaborators.

The film explores this visionary theoretician’s lifelong political struggle, and expressed in works of devastating contemporary relevance such as Empire and its sequel, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, a powerful intellectual project in protest of the new global order.