Empire

Empire dictates its laws and maintains the peace according to a model of postmodern right and postmodern law,

Empire forms on this superficial horizon where our bodies and minds are embedded. It is purely positive. There is no external logical machine that constitutes it.

In Empire, no subjectivity is outside,

When we say that political theory must deal with ontology, we mean first of all that politics cannot be constructed from the outside.

pessimistic description of presocial human nature and attempted through reliance on a transcendental notion of power to establish the legitimacy of the state.

Whereas within its domain the nation-state and its attendant ideological structures work tirelessly to create and reproduce the purity of the people, on the outside the nation-state is a machine that produces Others, creates racial difference, and raises boundaries that delimit and support the modern subject of sovereignty.

"The control of society over individuals is not conducted only through consciousness or ideology, but also in the body and with the body. For capitalist society biopolitics is what is most important, the biological, the somatic, the corporeal." 12

In disciplinary society, then, the relationship between power and the individual remained a static one:

rule of law continues to play a central role in the context of the contemporary passage: right remains effective and (precisely by means of the state of exception and police techniques) becomes procedure. This is a radical transformation that reveals the unmediated relationship between power and subjectivities,