From: pmargin-AT-froggy.com.au
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 21:44:37 +1100
Subject: Re: AUT: new thread: nomads




Aileen wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> The comments about credit and work discipline are interesting. I've
> been re-looking at Empire and
> I wonder what people think of the following assertion  ..
> 
> 'Desertion and exodus are a powerful form of class struggle within and
> against imperial post-modernity. This mobility, however, still
> constitutes a spontaneous level of struggle, and, as we noted earlier,
> it most often leans today to a new rootless condition of poverty and
> misery (p213)'.

I've tried to unravel the beginnings of the Italian debate around exodus
in a paper
somewhere on the list site. Sounds like we have similar concerns,
Aileen, although the more recent (for the Italians) notion of
'desertion' I think has a certain resonance, particularly when it is
raised in terms of military conflicts such as in Afghanistan.

Anyway, John H has written some critical things about Empire that touch
on the points you raise, don't know if they're online or not ...


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