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Operaismo and the Wicked Problem of Organization

Journal of Labor and Society, 2017
The “problem of organization” has long been a core preoccupation of the Marxist tradition and labour movements. This article argues it is best understood as what some social planners call a “wicked problem,” one that cannot ultimately be “solved,” only “re-solved—over and over again.” It identifies a set of hallmark theoretical tools developed by the ...
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Italian Operaismo and the Information Machine

Theory, Culture & Society, 2014
The political economy of the information machine is discussed within the Marxist tradition of Italian operaismo by posing the hypothesis of an informational turn already at work in the age of the industrial revolution. The idea of valorizing information introduced by Alquati (1963) in a pioneering Marxist approach to cybernetics is used to examine the ...
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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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Post-Operaismo and the New Autonomy of Immaterial Labour

2021
This chapter continues the survey of Marxist theory begun in the previous chapter. It focuses in particular on operaismo and post-operaismo. It discusses post-operaismo’s influential theory of immaterial labour. The chapter then reconstructs the argument for a new autonomy of immaterial labour as made up of three cyclically occurring stages: human ...
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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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Revolution from Above? Money and Class-Composition in Italian Operaismo

2014
The Italian-Marxist school of operaismo of the 1960s and 1970s is best known for its thematic of class-composition. This chapter examines critically the operaista debate concerning the relationship between money and class-struggle, above all in a period of dramatic social upheaval, economic crisis and 'stagflation'.
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Operaismo, Autonomia, Settantasettein Translation: Then, Now, the Future

Strategies: Journal of Theory, Culture & Politics, 2003
Interest in the work of Antonio Negri is considerable these days, and can be measured by a variety of means. For the past few years, the prestigious Italian leftist daily Il manifesto has published the 30 most searched for terms within the newspaper's online edition.
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