On the notion of the political in postmarxist theory.
04.03.2010
Nietzsche with Deleuze
The negative in the positive
04.02.2010
The notion of becoming in Deleuze and Guattari
Becoming
04.11.2009
On Esposito's concept of bio/politics
Biopotentiality
08.10.2009
Reading Althusser
07.10.2009
Rancière's farewell to Althusserian Marxism
La leçon d'Althusser
06.10.2009
Debating Althusser's philosophy of the encounter
What is aleatory materialism?
03.09.2009
Negri on materialism
Kairos, Alma Venus, Multitudo
02.09.2009
Tronti and Cacciari's concept of the political
The autonomy of the political
17.06.2009
"From Capital-Labor to Capital-Life" by M. Lazzarato
Invention
20.05.2009
Reading Simondon
Individuation
09.04.2009
Nancy on the singularity of death
Excess
11.03.2009
Agamben and Deleuze on pure immanence
Immanence
11.03.2009
Encountering Althusser
Preparatory meeting
11.03.2009
Workshop: becoming-major, becoming-minor
Preparatory meeting
07.02.2009
Foucault with Deleuze
The force of the outside II
06.02.2009
Superimposing diagrams: discipline and governmentality
The force of the outside
06.02.2009
Encountering Althusser
Preparatory Meeting
05.12.2008
Reading Jacques Rancière's "Dis-agreement"
Marx's Metapolitics
04.11.2008
Reading Balibar's "The Vacillation of Ideology in Marxism"
The non-totalizable complexity of the historical process
05.10.2008
Reading Jacques Derrida's "Specters of Marx"
Deconstructing Value Theory
11.09.2008
Reading Moishe Postone's "Time, Labor and Social Domination"
Value and Capitalist Capacities
01.07.2008
Debating "The mirror of production" by Jean Baudrillard
Marx with Bataille
06.06.2008
The coming communities of commons
05.06.2008
Feminist comments on the relation between politics and labor
The arcane of reproduction
09.05.2008
Rancière on the inactuality of communism and the intelligence of the unqualified
07.05.2008
Virno on Marx's "Fragments on machines"
Notes on the general intellect
04.04.2008
Virno on the concept of bio-politics in Postoperaism
What is living and what is dead in Marx's philosophy? II
03.04.2008
Jason Read on abstract and living labor
What is living and what is dead in Marx's philosophy?
07.03.2008
Reading Negri's "Twenty Theses on Marx"
The autonomy of living labor
08.02.2008
Class composition in Italian autonomist Marxism
The emergence of the socialised worker II
07.02.2008
Class composition in Italian autonomist Marxism
The emergence of the socialised worker
07.12.2007
On Badiou's concept of truth procedure
Assigning a measure to the excessive power of the state
09.11.2007
Reading Jacques Ranciere's "Ten theses on politics"
The supplementary part that disconnects the people from itself
04.10.2007
Deleuze and Guattari on the concept of minoritarian struggle
Micropolitics
07.09.2007
On class composition and radical negativity
Domestic work and class struggle within the class II
06.09.2007
On class composition and radical negativity
Domestic work and class struggle within the class
02.07.2007
From class to minority
The relationship of Marxism and Post-Structuralism III
01.07.2007
On the concept of the concrete universal
The relationship of Marxism and Post-Structuralism II
30.06.2007
On Marx and Foucault
The relationship of Marxism and Post-Structuralism
30.05.2007
Dictatorship of the proletariat and council movement
The Soviet experience II
29.05.2007
Rosa Luxemburg on the Russian Revolution
The Soviet experience
06.04.2007
Negri on Lenin
Democracy beyond law II
05.04.2007
Lenin's concept of the dictatorship of protetariat
Democracy beyond law
09.03.2007
Benjamin's concept of mysthic and divine violence
To bring about the real state of exception II
08.03.2007
Agamben's reading of Benjamin
To bring about the real state of exception
09.02.2007
Agamben's sovereign theoretical turn in thinking potentiality
Potentiality of impotentiality II
08.02.2007
Agamben's theory of autonomous potentiality
Potentiality of impotentiality
In "Limits of Negri's Class Analysis" Wright provides a critical reconstruction of both the militant actions and theoretical inventions that had been made in the framework of the Autonomia Operaia between 1973 and 1979.
Theoretically, Wright is focussing on the antinomies in Negri's concept of the socialised worker. For him, the central paradox lays in the combination of the historical thesis that the heterogeneity of the class composition has grown since labor has been fully subsumed to capital with the transhistorical or teleological thesis of the autonomy of living labor which tends to be fully realised in late capitalism. Negri says, that due to this tendency the new class of social workers expresses a unity of abstract social labor which overrides the differences between them.
For Negri, abstract labor is both socially constituted and socially subversive, when it became refusal of labour, creativity directed toward the reproduction of the proletariat as antagonistic subject. Two theoretical preconditions are central here:
(1) the transformation of value theory to a theory of capitalist command and factory discipline
(2) the thesis that with the intensification and the increase of political wage struggles, the workers seperate themselves from capitalist command. By liberating their subversive potential of living labor, they become an independent autonomous variable of struggle.
This position has been reformulated by Jason Read in his book "Micropolitics of Power". Drawing to Foucault in "Discpline and Power", Read depicts that discipline increases the forces of the body in economic terms of utility and diminishes these same forces in political terms of obedience. That is to say, capitalism is dependent on the productivity of labor which it must control. Abstract labor, the labor constitutive of value, becomes the site of conflict and control alike.
Wright: The limits of Negri's class analysis
http://libcom.org/library/limits-negri-class-analysis-steve-wright
Further texts:
Bologna: For an analysis of Autonomia, in: Left History, Volume 7: 2, Autumn 2000, 89-102
https://www.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/lh/article/viewFile/5456/4651
Bologna: A Review of Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism by Steve Wright, Strategies. Journal of Theory, Culture & Politics 16 (2), November 2003
http://www.generation-online.org/t/stormingheaven.htm
Moroni/ Balestrini: Die goldene Horde. Arbeiterautonomie, Jugendrevolte und bewaffneter Kampf in Italien, Berlin: Schwarze Risse 1994
Wright: There and back again: mapping the pathways within autonomist Marxism, Conference Paper "Immaterial labor, multitudes, and new social subjects", King's College, University of Harvard, 2006
http://www.geocities.com/immateriallabour/wrightpaper2006.html
You find the conference program at
http://www.geocities.com/immateriallabour/programme2006.html