What if politics ran on love instead of fear? This 16-minute mind-bomb dares to ask.
In 1515 Machiavelli stated that it is better for the Prince to be feared than loved. Some 500 years later, Michael Hardt, political philosopher and co-author of Empire, Multitude and Commonwealth, asks what it would mean to base a political system on love, rather than on fear. How can we transform a society that is increasingly defined by a permanent state of war and cultivated by an industry of fear? How can we realize the paradigm shift necessary to move away from a reality that depends on the exploitation of people and the cult of privatisation of public resources?
Editing
Karina and Constantine footage sliced into philosophical manifesto—pure détournement.
Writing
Hardt's love-as-political-structure thesis lands like a brick through neoliberal glass.
Director
Johan Grimonprez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Grimonprez samples Alphaville and Pierrot le fou as visual counterargument—Godard's lovers become theorists of collective struggle.
Hardt's 'love' isn't sentimental—it's Spinoza's potentia, the power to act together that Empire tried to crush.
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