Randi Koppen

Bio

Randi Koppen is Professor of British Literature at the University of Bergen. Her work on British literary and cultural modernism includes articles and book chapters on Leonard Woolf’s fiction and non-fiction, as well as the monograph Virginia Woolf, Fashion and Literary Modernity (Edinburgh University Press, 2009).

Contributions

The Loose Mass, The Open Society, and the Co-operative Commonwealth: Altermodernities Between the Wars

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In their book Commonwealth from 2009, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri look forward to a commonwealth of the future, a true democracy of the multitude; reconceptualized forms of sociality and conviviality; a new culture and new modes of life, whose realization will require nothing less than “anthropological transformation.” [1] While this new democracy is yet to come, for Hardt and Negri it has antecedents in a partially submerged history of altermodernity: a critical tradition in political...

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