Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 11:28:15 -0700
From: Nate Holdren <nateholdren-AT-gmail.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Bologna on postfordism


Hello Angela, Lowe-

Have you had a chance to look Jason Read's book the Micropolitics of
Capital? It's quite good, makes interesting claims about the
production of subjectivity in relation to capitalism in its various
instantiations, and is great on readings of operaismo and French
post-whatever stuff.

As Marx says someplace, one of the principal products of work under
capitalism is the capital-labor relationship. The production of
subjectivity seems to falls cleanly under that heading (for those of
us possessed of the need to fit everything we read into the slots of
Marx[ism]). Given that Bologna's work (at least the stuff in English,
all I've read) is analysis and history of various formations of a
class subject, it makes a lot of sense that Bologna and other
operaisti would dovetail so closely with Foucault...



On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 06:13:07 -0400, Lowe Laclau <lowelaclau-AT-hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Angela,
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> That article by Mark Coté on the Italian Foucaults tries to establish links as well. But from what I remember Bologna states that never read him or at least not seriously. Unlike Negri or Bifo. But if as Deleuze says there is such an affinity between the works of Tronti and Foucault then perhaps whatever resemblances there are may come from Bologna's association with Tronti or with whatever Tronti and other brought to the Operaia and Autonomia movements. And I think even dispite Bologna's statement suggesting the contrary it must have been very difficult NOT to know of Foucaults work and its general themes at least. His fame extended far beyond France.
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> Lowe
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> >Reminds me of Foucault (the citation of Bologna's
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> >about visibility, constitution and mediation
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> >posted here recently has definite foucauldian
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> >preoccupations); but I've no idea what Bologna's
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> >take on Foucault might be.  And I'm hardly the
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> >first to draw the parallels.
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> >http://slash.interactivist.net/analysis/03/09/16/1
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> >035213.shtml
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> >Angela
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> >Lowe:
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> >: Reminds me a great deal of
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> >: latter-day Guattari. An emphasis on the
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> >: creation of dispositifs as opposed to
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> >: the scientifization (sorry... making up
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> >: words again) of the class antagonisms.
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