From: Michael_E_Jackson-AT-brown.edu
Subject: Re: AUT: Re: aut-op-sy-digest V1 #1285
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 22:40:26 -0500


Jon et al.,

Re: BBC documentary on Negri.
For the next couple months at least I'm in a good position to make PAL-->"standard" dubs for standard folks in North America. I work at my university's AV office and we have a bunch of VCRs stuck together for exactly that function. It would be the slightest pink-collar misbehavior--insert something problematic and vaguely vanguardist about immaterial labor here. More to the point, it'll save us all some cash and logistical angst if Jon only has to post one PAL tape across the pond. 
Contact me offlist (especially if you're Jon).
MJ
 
> Yeah, I taped it.
> 
> It was a pretty good documentary.  Mostly interviews with Michael and Toni
> (Toni in subtitled rather than dubbed Italian, which was a help),
> switching between Rome and New York, allowing them a good amount of time
> to develop their "Empire" thesis, and concentrating on the multitude.
> And some quite remarkably sympathetic commentary (narrated by Juliet
> Stevenson).  Some historical stuff--Negri's 70s history and trials
> etc.--but not very much.
> 
> Nothing very startling or new for Negri-watchers, except some footage of
> Michael and Toni and various others around a dinner table in Rome talking
> about the problems of waging "war against war" (in the context of the
> impending offensive against Iraq, natch) and the shortcomings of pacifism,
> yet saying that this is a big stumbling block for them in the book they're
> currently writing.  Indeed, it was obviously filmed pretty recently, and
> ended on Negri saying something like that with the rise of a state of
> permanent low-intensity war / high-intensity policing, he wasn't sure if
> he was more pessimistic or optimistic.
> 
> I can investigate the possibilities of getting tapes made (it'll be PAL
> format) for anyone who wants.
> 
> Take care
> 
> Jon
> 
> Jon Beasley-Murray
> 
> Latin American Studies
> University of Manchester
> jon.beasley-murray-AT-man.ac.uk
> 
> http://www.art.man.ac.uk/SPANISH/staff/jbm.htm
> http://www.art.man.ac.uk/lacs/
> 
> 
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