Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 07:06:52 -0700 From: Michael Pugliese <debsian-AT-pacbell.net> Subject: Re: AUT: Feedback from Jay Moore on Hardt-Negri This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_hvQHsJ3DeUph/2CbONf0Ng) Semiotext(e) published a collection of original pieces by the autonomia crowd. These URL's from a google search should find some of that issue. http://www.google.com/search?q=Autonomia++Semiotext%28e%29 (That issue as well as a subsequent issue on Germany are great. Someone should ask Autonomedia to republish them.) And, also Diana Johnstone in In These Times, in the late 70's, had a series of pieces on Negri et. al. Including a wild picture of the "Manhattan Indians" in Italy. Also see an o.p. book from Verso on Italian social movements by Robert Lumley(?). Michael Pugliese, not Abbie Hoffman or Albert Hoffman... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Louis Proyect" <lnp3-AT-panix.com> To: <pen-l-AT-galaxy.csuchico.edu> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 8:53 AM Subject: [PEN-L:11027] Antonio Negri > I finally got around to reading the Lingua Franca piece on Antonio Negri, > which--in my opinion--helps to shed light on problems facing the > "anti-globalization" movement today. I learned that Negri was a guru of the > "autonomist" movement in Italy in the mid-1970s that seemed to have as much > of a fetish over street-fighting as many of the "black bloc" types today do. > > "Autonomia" referred to a belief that workers and students should take > direction action against the capitalist system 'autonomously', like not > paying for a ride on a bus, etc. This was a fancy term for the sort of > thing that Abby Hoffman used to be involved with but without the > pretentious jargon. It was Negri's contribution to garnish these direct > actions with "post-Marxist" profundities from Guattari-Deleuze. By > establishing "autonomist" groups all across Italy in "rhizomic" fashion, > some kind of proletarian revolution would take place. Of course, what these > "roots" based grouplets lacked was any kind of accountability to the mass > movement. The notion of putting direction actions to a vote would be > considered some kind of antiquated Leninism. > > When Italy failed to respond to the autonomist movement, the activists > became frustrated and turned to the terrorism of the Red Brigades, their > version of the Weathermen. Negri was charged with aiding the Red Brigades > and sentenced to a long prison term. Although Negri denied any direct > involvement, he refused to disassociate himself politically from the aims > of the Red Brigades. The judge in the case, who interestingly enough was > sympathetic to the Communist Party, decided that even though no direct > links between the "autonomists" and the brigades could be proven, there was > heavily circumstantial evidence that they had overlapping memberships and > that Negri was a link between the two movements. > > As is well understood in Marxist circles, populists of the Narodnik type > often turn to the right when the system can not be overthrown through > kidnappings, assassination, etc. Many a Russian middle-class radical who > could not overthrow Czarism through the "propaganda of the deed" became > transformed into Social Revolutionaries, who were revolutionary in name > only. Kerensky was their leader. > > In Italy, a similar phenomenon took place. And Negri apparently was swept > up by the rightward boomerang, as indicated by his decision to run for > office on the Radical Party ticket. A brief review of Lexis-Nexis gives you > a flavor of the sort of people who joined this party and what it stands > for. This is from a July 6, 1996 FT article on the candidacy of Emma Bonino. > > --- > No doubt Emma Bonino was headstrong from the start. She was born in the > small town of Bra, south of Turin, the kind of place where going to church > was the social highlight of the week. Her father ('a very strange kind of > person but I loved him very much') saw no reason for girls to be bothering > with high school or university but was persuaded to let her go. > > While in New York to research a thesis on Malcolm X, the Black Power > leader, she found a job selling shoes in Carrano's elegant boutique on > Fifth Avenue. It was un-demanding: the shoes came in little Italian sizes - > 'So unless we could find some Chinese customers we had nothing to do.' > > In 1975 she was asked to become a candidate for the Radicals, a small > centrist party seeking to promote an individualist society against what she > calls the authoritarianism of the Christian Democrats on the right and the > Communists on the left. She was five times elected to the Chamber of > Deputies and twice to the European Parliament. > --- > > Louis Proyect > Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org > ----- Original Message ----- From: Matteomandarini-AT-aol.com To: aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 1:47 AM Subject: Re: AUT: Feedback from Jay Moore on Hardt-Negri jay i assume you must be referring to zizek who called it the communist manifesto for the 21st century (not Das Kapital), and it is somewhat manifesto like (note marx's orgasms over the modernising effects of capitalism in his manifesto). by the way, if you're looking for s deeper analysis, there are plenty. negri was writing a book called Kairos, Alma Venus, Multitude while working with the book with michael hardt which is a deeper philosophicl reflection on the theoretical elements of the of empire (it's now out in italian and french). you may wish also to look at negri's work with lazzarato to find more detailed analyses of post-fordism (which were done during his Futur anterieur period), or his Posse journal whose last issue dealt with socio-economic and cultural, poltical (biopolitical) analyses of the city as point of convergence of certain regimes of power and co-operation. i think one should allow books that operate with big brush strokes (calls to arms if you will), as well as detailed analyses and theorietical tracts operating at varying degrees of abstraction. seems a little churlish to blame negri for not writing the das kapital for the 21st c. despite never claiming to have done so 134E Kinglsand Road, Hoxton, London E2 8DY 020 7613 2993 0776 997 6212 matteomandarini-AT-aol.com --Boundary_(ID_hvQHsJ3DeUph/2CbONf0Ng)
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i assume you must be referring to zizek who called it the communist manifesto
for the 21st century (not Das Kapital), and it is somewhat manifesto like
(note marx's orgasms over the modernising effects of capitalism in his
manifesto). by the way, if you're looking for s deeper analysis, there are
plenty. negri was writing a book called Kairos, Alma Venus, Multitude while
working with the book with michael hardt which is a deeper philosophicl
reflection on the theoretical elements of the of empire (it's now out in
italian and french).
you may wish also to look at negri's work with lazzarato to find more
detailed analyses of post-fordism (which were done during his Futur anterieur
period), or his Posse journal whose last issue dealt with socio-economic and
cultural, poltical (biopolitical) analyses of the city as point of
convergence of certain regimes of power and co-operation.
i think one should allow books that operate with big brush strokes (calls to
arms if you will), as well as detailed analyses and theorietical tracts
operating at varying degrees of abstraction.
seems a little churlish to blame negri for not writing the das kapital for
the 21st c. despite never claiming to have done so
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