Marco GIANNOTTI Marco Giannoti is painter and independent professor of the Department of Plastic Arts of the Escola de Comunica�ção y Artes of the University of São Paulo (ECA/USP). He is copublisher of the Ars magazine, published by ECA/USP /

Michael HARDT Michael Hardt is an American literary theorist and political philosopher based at Duke University. Perhaps his most famous work is Empire (2000) written with Antonio Negri The sequel to Empire, called Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, was released in August, 2004, and details the idea of the multitude as the potential site of a global democratic movement. Hardt studied engineering at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania from 1978 to 1983. In 1983 he moved to Seattle to study comparative literature. Other works include: Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy (1993), Radical Thought in Italy (1996, con Paolo Virno) y The Labour of Dionysos: A Critique of a State-Form (1994), también con Negri /

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