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Title

Autonomia : post-political politics / [editors, Sylvère Lotringer, Christian Marazzi].

Publication

Los Angeles, CA : Semiotext(e) ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• El Kholti, Hedi.
• Lotringer, Sylvère.
• Marazzi, Christian.

Description

xvi, 296 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Summary

Most of the writers who contributed to the issue were locked up at the time in Italian jails ... I was trying to draw the attention of the American Left, which still believed in Eurocommunism, to the fate of Autonomia. The survival of the last politically creative movement in the West was at stake, but no one in the United States seemed to realize that, or be willing to listen. Put together as events in Italy were unfolding, the Autonomia issue--which has no equivalent in Italy, or anywhere for that matter--arrived too late, but it remains an energizing account of a movement that disappeared without bearing a trace, but with a big future still ahead of it.--Sylvère LotringerSemiotext(e) is reissuing in book form its legendary magazine issue Italy: Autonomia: Post-Political Politics, originally published in New York in 1980. Edited by Sylvère Lotringer and Christian Marazzi with the direct participation of the main leaders and theorists of the Autonomist movement (including Antonio Negri, Mario Tronti, Franco Piperno, Oreste Scalzone, Paolo Virno, Sergio Bologna, and Franco Berardi), this volume is the only first-hand document and contemporaneous analysis that exists of the most innovative post-'68 radical movement in the West. The movement itself was broken when Autonomia members were falsely accused of (and prosecuted for) being the intellectual masterminds of the Red Brigades; but even after the end of Autonomia, this book remains a crucial testimony of the way this creative, futuristic, neo-anarchistic, postideological, and nonrepresentative political movement of young workers and intellectuals anticipated issues that are now confronting us in the wake of Empire. In the next two years, Semiotext(e) will publish eight books by such Italian "Post-Fordist" intellectuals as Antonio Negri, Christian Marazzi, Paolo Virno, and Bifo, as they update the theories of Autonomia for the new century. Sylvère Lotringer, general editor of Semiotext(e), lives in New York and Baja California. He is the author of Overexposed: Perverting Perversions (Semiotext(e), 2007). Christian Marazzi, an Italian economist, lives in Switzerland. He is the author of Capital and Language: From the New Economy to the War Economy and Sock's Place, both forthcoming from Semiotext(e).

Series Statement

• Semiotext(e) intervention series ; 1
• Semiotext(e) foreign agents series

Uniform Title

• Semiotext(e) intervention series ; 1.
• Semiotext(e) foreign agents series.

Subjects

• Italy
• Politics and government
• Radicalism > Italy
• 1945-1976
• Italy > Politics and government > 1945-1976

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• 1 INTRODUCTION -- The Return of Politics / Sylvere Lotringer, Christian Marazzi -- 2 THE IMPOSSIBLE CLASS -- Flat Has Branded Me / Giampaolo Pansa -- The Strategy of Refusal / Mario Tronti -- The Tribe of Moles / Sergio Bologna -- Domination and Sabotage / Toni Negri -- Autoreduction Movements in Turin / Eddy Cherki, Michel Wievioka -- From Guaranteeism to Armed Politics / Oreste Scalzone -- In the Beginning Was Gramsci / Henri Weber -- What the Communists Really Are / Censor -- The State of Spectacle / Guy Debord -- Lama Sabachthani? -- Painted Politics / Maurizio Torealta -- The Proliferation of Margins / Felix Guattari -- Dreamers of a Successful Life / Paolo Virno -- Hegel and the Wobblies / Eric Alliez -- Let's Do Justice to Our Comrade P.38. --
• Nonviolence in Bologna / Judith Malina -- Radio Alice-Free Radio / Collective A, Traverso -- The City in the Female Gender / Lia Magale -- 3 APRIL 7 ARRESTS -- Anatomy of Autonomy / Bifo -- Repression in Italy / CARI -- Workerist Publications and Bios / Sergio Bologna -- Open Letter to Negri's Judges / Gilles Deleuze -- ANSA Story / Ferrucio Gambino, Seth Tilet -- Interrogation / Toni Negri -- Memorandum from Prison / Toni Negri, Oreste Scalzone, et. al. -- The Naked Truth About Moro's Detention / Franco Piperno, II Male -- Piperno's Counteroffensive / Franco Piperno, II Male -- Violence of the State / I Volsci -- The Sandstorm Method / Dario Fo -- 4 BEYOND TERRORISM -- From Terrorism to Guerrilla Warfare / Franco Piperno -- Living with Guerrilla Warfare / Lucio Castellano --
• Why Italy? / Felix Guattari -- On Armed Struggle / Paolo Virno -- The Recognition of the Armed Party / Lafranco Pace, Franco Piperno -- Sorry, It's Exactly the Opposite / Massimo Cacciari -- The Red Harvest / Leonardo Sciascia -- Beyond Terrorism / Oreste Scalzone -- I, Toni Negri / Toni Negri, Eugenio Scalfari -- Unpublished Interview / Franco Piperno -- Popular Defense and Popular Assault / Paul Virilio -- A Brigadist Speaks / Valerio Morucci, Pino Nicotri -- Dissenting Brigadists -- Who Is the Traitor? / Renato Curcio -- J'Accuse / Toni Negri -- 5 FIVE -- The Aldo Moro Kidnapping / Madaudo, Melville.

Call Number

JFF 19-972

ISBN

• 9781584350538
• 1584350539

LCCN

2008270056

OCLC

159669900

Title

Autonomia : post-political politics / [editors, Sylvère Lotringer, Christian Marazzi].

Imprint

Los Angeles, CA : Semiotext(e) ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, 2007.

Edition

2nd ed. / prepared by Hedi El Kholti.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Semiotext(e) intervention series ; 1

Semiotext(e) foreign agents series

Semiotext(e) intervention series ; 1.

Semiotext(e) foreign agents series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

1945-1976

Added Author

El Kholti, Hedi.

Lotringer, Sylvère.

Marazzi, Christian.

Other Form:

Online version: Autonomia. 2nd ed. Los Angeles, CA : Semiotext(e) ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, 2007 (OCoLC)681311783

Research Call Number

JFF 19-972