Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 12:01:58 GMT
From: Fergal Finnegan <fergalf-AT-meta.dublin.iona.ie>
Subject: Re: Strategy


I am very interested in this.I would really appreciate if some of the
colisteros could expand and clarify the notion of "the informatic and
cultural content of the commodity".Also,I would like to hear any theories on
the role of culture in capitalism and class composition in general.Thanks.

Fergal




>The concept of immaterial labor I've taken from Toni Negri's writings 
>- who by the way is deeply influenced by some post-structuralists, 
>for want of a better term. It seems to be increasingly used in 
>circles around Negri in France. Maybe wider - I'm on the other side 
>of the planet after all. It refers to the "informatic and cultural 
>content of the commodity" - to plagarize one of this group. But more 
>generally seems to me to come out of the need to think through the 
>increasing - now dominant - need of capital for science, technology 
>and culture in the labor process. Especially in the complex and 
>intensive co-operation and organization of labor in the labor-process. What
I was 
>trying to point to is the question of this (scientific, cultural, 
>communicative, etc)  form of labor in terms of the real forces, and 
>balance of forces, that make up labor as a class. It is way I guess 
>of suggesting the politics of a key division of labor, that between 
>head and hand, and how it is developing now.
>
>Bruce.
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