Immeasurable Cosmology. Acting according to Antonio Negri

Abstract

Antonio Negri’s works, including eraly books are considered here in the perspective of contemporary
discussions on “agency”, “elemental” and new forms of subjectivity. Bearing attention to
Negri’s marxsist position as well as his Spinosist views, the author questions whether notion of
measure is applicable to that of forms of life. On the one hand, Negri opposes creative production
to the instrumentalist reason, meaning that creation acts beyond measure or any form of control or
governance. On the other hand, he does not see the very existence of acting and creative unity
in the immeasurable totality of no value. Therefore the possibility is open towards understanding
measure not as external frame which is put on “raw material”, but moreover as unifying technical
principle that hold the subjectivity within. This possibility obtains interesting ways of realization
in the context of actual perlaboration of technics that operates imagery and artistic as well as technological
descriptions. Examples of latter ones are provided in the article to reveal Negri’s clearly
non-posthuman, but still futurological decision.