From: "M" <swerve-AT-onetel.net.uk>
Subject: R: AUT: Callinicos on Negri
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 07:01:00 -0000


If you're interested in doing a serious reading on and around Empire, you
should get on the generation_ondine reading group at
Generation_online-AT-coyote.kein.org (or
http://coyote.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/generation_online.). The new
readings follow on from a discussion that occurred in early summer, and
people have decided to expand the reading.
Here are just some of the texts that we're planning to work on alongside
sections of Empire. Ambitious I know, but there are a number of people
committed to this reading:

Political ontology and the metaphysics of Marx and Spinoza.

Books: Savage Anomaly, Insurgencies and of course Empire.
People: Hobbes, Spinoza, Deleuze
Concepts: Multitude and strength, desire, potentia,

Conception of the State and constituted power

Books: Spinoza's Theological Political Treatise, Insurgencies, Marx's
critique of Hegel's philosophy of the state etc.
People: Balibar on Spinoza,
concepts: Potestas, Empire, power

Living labour, social ontology, Capital

Books: Marx beyond Marx, Grundrisse, 'Results of the Immediate Process of
Production' (published as final section of Capital Vol 1), Theories of
Surplus Value (section on Smith)
People: i.e. Chris Arthur, Harry Cleaver. Foucault.
Concepts: Bio-power, Domestic Labour debate, labour theory of value/ beyond
measure, material/immaterial labour

Postmodernity as societal state - postmodernization, globalisation, post-
nation

Books: Insurgencies, Empire, Postmodern condition/ Limits to Capital
People: David Harvey, Fred Jameson, Warren Montag, Wallerstein etc
concepts: post-fordism, immaterial labour, communication

Postmodernism as method, as relation to knowledge

Books: Lyotard, Zizek (politics of truth in Ticklish subject), Benhabib,
Negri (the Late Althusser article)
Concepts: Aleatory Materialism, epistemological relativism, skepticism and
cynicism



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[mailto:owner-aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu]Per conto di Peter
Jovanovic
Inviato: marted́ 20 novembre 2001 1.20
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Oggetto: Re: AUT: Callinicos on Negri

hi Neil and others

i've read Callinicos' Negri article (it's in 'International Socialism' #92)
and i posted a brief message about it to aut-op-sy a while ago. BTW the
article will probably be up sooner or later at www.lpi.org.uk

it was fairly obvious that Commisar Callinicos didn't really get Negri. it
was amusing to read (again) that the SWP thinks Ya Basta/Tute Bianche are
substitutionist (talk about the pot calling the kettle black) and that the
'revolutionary left' were reduced to being passive spectators as the TB
fought the cops in Genoa. surely that says much more about the bankruptcy of
Trotskyism than of the TB.

while i'm on the subject of Negri, i've started reading Empire. i've only
read to the end of part 1 but it doesn't seem like H&N see Empire and
Multitude as two autonomous subjects like they've been criticised for on
this list by Chris Wright and others. for instance they say something like
'the multitude is inside and against empire' around page 50 (sorry for the
imprecision but i don't have empire to hand). do they change their tune
later on?

peter


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