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A laughter that will bury you all : the antagonistic gesture of 'Autonomia' and 'Operaismo' [PDF]

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Several contemporary critical currents, from post-operaismo to autonomist Marxism, report their conceptual lineage to the Italian political struggles of the 60s and 70s, a period known as the “long 68”. Operaismo’s famous claim of a political primacy and autonomy of the working class within the reproduction of capital is synthesized as the essential ...
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To Anticipate and Accelerate: Italian Operaismo and Reading Marx's Notion of the Organic Composition of Capital

Rethinking Marxism, 2014
This essay proposes to follow a basic philological track: to illustrate Italian operaismo's theses on the metamorphoses of labor through the lens of Marx's notion of the organic composition of capital (OCC). Since the 1960s, operaismo not only has been importing new labor subjectivities into canonical Marxism but also has shaped these concepts inside a
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Form-of-Life and Antagonism: On Homo Sacer and Operaismo

2016
This Chapter argues that one of the key concepts in Agamben’s account of the ‘coming politics’ – form-of-life – was initially developed through a critical engagement with three concepts central to the post-workerist strain of Italian Marxism: general intellect, multitude, and antagonism.
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Labour Process Theory and the legacy of operaismo. New directions, old problems

Sociologia Del Lavoro
Simultaneous with the rise of Labour Process Theory (LPT), Italy was the centre of a parallel and prominent theorisation of the labour process in an overlapping intellectual and social context: operaismo. Both have undergone a recent resurgence. This paper provides a critical commentary on the development and claims of operaismo, drawing out some ...
Frederick Harry Pitts
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