About

Michael Hardt teaches political theory in the Literature Program at Duke University. His works combine philosophical investigations with analyses of our current political situation. Studying the current forms of social domination, including the mechanisms of capitalist control, which form the bases of the contemporary global power structures, is a central focus. Key, too, is engagement with contemporary social movements that refuse domination and present the potential for new, democratic modes of social organization. His collaborations with Antonio Negri have resulted in six books, including 'Labor of Dionysus,' 'Empire,' 'Multitude,' 'Commonwealth,' 'Declaration,' and 'Assembly.' His latest book, 'The Subversive Seventies,' analyzes liberation movements of the 1970s across various countries, highlighting their relevance for contemporary political struggles. Since 2010, he has served as editor of the South Atlantic Quarterly.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Political Science
• Sociology
• Business
• Engineering
• Systems engineering
• Computer Security
• Philosophy
• Aerospace engineering
• Transport engineering
• Process management
• Law
• Political economy
• Software engineering
• Risk analysis (engineering)

Selected publications

• Foreword: Learning from Tehran’s Subversive Seventies

  Edinburgh University Press eBooks · 2026-01-09

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• Iran Beyond the Exception

  South Atlantic Quarterly · 2025-10-13

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  This introduction describes how the Against the Day dossier “War Regimes and Neoliberal Economy in Contemporary Iran” challenges the widely accepted idea that Iran should be understood as an exception in the current global political scene.

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• Erfahrungsbericht aus einem Jahr Darwinistische Black-Box Selektion zur Resistenz gegen Varroa destructor bei Honigbienen

  Tierärztliche Praxis Ausgabe G Großtiere / Nutztiere · 2025-10-01

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  Varroa destructor ist ursprünglich ein Parasit der östlichen Honigbiene Apis cerana, der auf die westliche Honigbien Apis melifera übergegangen ist. Varroa destructor ist die Hauptursache für Bienenvölkerverluste in Deutschland. Bewirtschaftete Bienenvölker werden behandelt. Eine Selektion auf Wirtsresistenz und Toleranz der Bienen wird dadurch verhindert. Blacquière et. al. stellen 2019 einen Entwurf für einen natürlichen Selektionsweg vor, Darwinian black box selection [1]. Dieser Ansatz wird in einem von der EU geförderten Projekt (Better-B) in 8 Ländern verfolgt [2]. Eine Population von 25 Bienenvölkern wird in einem abgelegenen Gebiet möglichst ohne genetischen Einfluss von Völkern von außerhalb vermehrt. Die Bienenvölker werden nicht gegen die Varroamilbe behandelt. Die Volksentwicklung und der Varroabefall werden beobachtet. Bienenvölker, die behandelt werden müssen, werden aus dem Projekt entfernt. Ende Mai wurden 100 Ableger gebildet. Circa 70 wurden eingewintert. 17 Völker haben den Winter überlebt und sind die Ausgangspopulation für die weitere Selektion.

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• Radical Politics: On the Causes of Contemporary Emancipation. By Peter D. Thomas. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. 304p.

  Perspectives on Politics · 2025-05-16

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• A Global War Regime

  NLR/Sidecar · 2024-05-09 · 3 citations

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• A Reply to Xifaras

  Law and Critique · 2024-04-01

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• Validierung einer automatischen, KI-gestützten Varroa-Befalls-Auswertung in der Bodeneinlage

  Tierärztliche Praxis Ausgabe G Großtiere / Nutztiere · 2024-10-01

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• Correction: A 20 bp Duplication in Exon 2 of the Aristaless-Like Homeobox 4 Gene (ALX4) Is the Candidate Causative Mutation for Tibial Hemimelia Syndrome in Galloway Cattle

  PLoS ONE · 2024-09-19

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  [This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129208.].

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• Postexpositionsprophylaxe nach Biss einer Breitflügelfledermaus mit Nachweis des Europäischen Fledermaus-Lyssavirus 1 (EBLV-1)

  Die Innere Medizin · 2023-12-15 · 1 citations

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  Germany has been considered free of terrestrial rabies since 2008 as a result of intensive vaccination and surveillance efforts but reservoirs of the lyssaviruses EBLV‑1 and EBLV‑2 persist in bat colonies and thus pose a potential risk of infection. We report on a patient who suffered a bat bite in an urban setting in which European bat lyssavirus 1 (EBLV-1) was detected in the euthanized bat. We performed active and passive postexposure prophylaxis (PEP). This case study illustrates the ongoing risk of rabies infection due to close bat contacts in Germany and is intended to sensitize primary care physicians to take such exposure events seriously and to perform a regular PEP including administration of rabies immunoglobulin.

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• Timeline

  2023-07-20

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  Subject Politics Political Theory Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online

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Frequent coauthors

• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  82 shared

• Vince Rafael

  University of Western Australia

  81 shared

• Judith Grbich

  University of Melbourne

  81 shared

• Judith Butler

  81 shared

• Geoff White

  81 shared

• Srinivas Aravamudan

  81 shared

• Claire Kramsch

  81 shared

• Prnina Werbner

  University of Western Australia

  81 shared

Awards & honors

• Bass Fellow (2007 - Present)