From: Matteomandarini-AT-aol.com Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 02:38:41 EDT Subject: Re: Fw: AUT: Negri and Lenin --part1_5f.190f2fdd.28a389f1_boundary i'm afraid i disagree with your premisses: negri's de-linking of the subject-object dichotomy of labour and capital is not one that isolates the two elements, rather the complete opposite. what he argues is that in conditions of the real subsumption of the social by capital there is no outside, so that one is always fully within capital. he argues that rather than a dualistic ontology one has a univocal immanent ontology (this is where the link with spinoza emerges). at that point the question becomes one of how can a subject become fully revolutionary from within capital, i.e. without pointing to some 'outside' that can be the point of leverage for revolutionary subjectivity. the subject position is anything but 'denigrated', it becomes rather that which needs to be constructed from within, and it is done so through an exploration of the concept of antagonism, which is no longer one that can be simply fixed at the point of the labour vs. capital, but rather it spreads everywhere. antagonism is the constitutive element of the ontology that he describes, one in which the multitude becomes subject and where capital operates as a supervening force which tries to reconstitute subjectivity in a manner that tries to segment the constitutivity of the multitudes anatgonistic processes. spinoza is central because his exploration of the ontological totality maps the totalisation effected by capital in conditions of real subsumption. one thing you are right about i think, is that this does away with the notion of fetishism and mystification - mediation. but by doing so, he stresses that the crisis, the antagonism becomes more immediate and brutal, it doesn't dissolve. it is then a question not of 'illusion' but rather of force, of control, of the constituted against the constitutive - and again the link with spinoza emerges. it is then a question of practice within particular conjunctures, of forces in conflict - for what drives the whole is antagonism, for crisis and antagonism spread everywhere.... --part1_5f.190f2fdd.28a389f1_boundary
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