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Strategies of Refusal: Explorations in Autonomist Marxism<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since the publication of Hardt and Negri’s Empire new attention has been brought to a previously ignored current of revolutionary theory and practice, namely that of autonomist Marxism. The attention paid to readings of Negri have tended to neglect the vast wealth of engaged theoretical reflection contained within the history of autonomist thought and organizing from which Negri’s work emerges. The course will begin to explore this future behind our backs focusing on key concepts and practices with autonomst Marxism such as class composition analysis, spatial articulations and enclosures, mobility and exodus, the refusal of work, affective labor, biopower, communication and information theory, and current developments in autonomist organizing such as those around precarious labor. It will explore the writing of theorists as Mario Tronti, Paolo Virno, the Midnight Notes Collective, Harry Cleaver, Silvia Federici, Bifo, Leopoldina Fortunati, Ferrucio Gambino, Raniero Panzieri, Sandro Mezzadra, George Caffentzis, Maurizio Lazzarato, Mariarosa Dallacosta, Toni Negri, F\u00e9lix Guattari, and Alisa Del Re. Having at least a working knowledge of Marxist concepts (and a willingness to critique them) would be very helpful. A majority of the reading will be made available electronically and\/or in scanned form.<\/p>\n

Bluestockings<\/a> \u2022 172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington, NYC \u2022\u00a0 \u2022 $25 \u2013 50 sliding scale
\nSundays 12 \u2013 2 PM from October 9nd \u2013 December 4th, 2005
\nInstructors: Jack Z. Bratich & Stevphen Shukaitis<\/p>\n

::Readings::
\nReadings are divided into core and supplementary readings. The core readings (noted with a star *, approximately 50 pages) will be used to form the basis of discussion of the topics for the given week. Supplementary readings are materials arguments will be drawn from and would be useful for pursuing particular topics further but are not necessary to read before discussion. Reading core materials is highly encouraged and will greatly aid in having engaging and intersting discussions.<\/p>\n

::October 9th – Introduction \/ Overview::
\n<\/strong>*Gary Kinsman, \u201cThe Politics of Revolution: Learning from Autonomist Marxism\u201d http:\/\/auto_sol.tao.ca\/node\/view\/383
\n*Harry Cleaver. Reading Capital Politically (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1979), 3-66.
\n*Mario Tronti, \u201cThe Strategy of Refusal,\u201d Italy: Autonomia. Post-political politics. Ed. Sylvere Lotringer and Christian Marazzi (Semiotext 1980), 28-35.<\/p>\n

::October 16th \u2013 The Future Behind Our Backs::
\n<\/strong>*Sergio Bologna, \u201cThe Tribe of Moles,\u201d Italy: Autonomia. Post-political politics. Ed. Sylvere Lotringer and Christian Marazzi (New York: Semiotext, 1980), 36-61.
\n*Patrick Cunninghame, \u201cAutonomia in the 1970s: The Refusal of Work, the Party and Power\u201d
\n*Michael Hardt, \u201cIntroduction: Laboratory Italy,\u201d Radical Thought in Italy: A Potential Politics. Ed. Michael Hardt and Paolo Virno(Minneaplois, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1996), 1-9.
\n*Steve Wright. Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism (London: Pluto Press, 2002)<\/p>\n

::October 23rd \u2013 Enclosures\/\/Exodus\/\/ Migrations\/\/Lines of Flight::
\n<\/strong>*Midnight Notes, \u201cThe New Enclosures,\u201d Midnight Oil: Work, Energy, War, 1973 \u2013 1992 (Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 1992), 317-333.
\n*Sandro Mezzadra, \u201cThe Right to Escape,\u201dephemera Volume 4 Number 3 (August 2004), 267-275.
\nAntonio Negri, \u201cRupture Within Empire: The Power of Exodus,\u201d TCS 2002
\n*Paolo Virno, \u201cVitruosity and Revoltuion: The Political Theory of Exodus,\u201d Radical Thought in Italy: A Potential Politics. Ed. Michael Hardt and Paolo Virno. Trans. Ed Emery (Minneaplois, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1996), 189-210.
\nMassimo De Angelis, \u201cMarx and Primitive Accumulation: the Continous Character of Capital’s Enclosures,\u201d The Commoner Number 2 (2001), 1-22.
\nJohn Holloway, \u201cCapital Moves,\u201d Revolutionary Writing: Common Sense Essays in Post-Political Politics. Ed. Werner Bonefeld (Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 2003), 161-169
\nSandro Mezzadra, \u201cCitizenship in Motion,\u201d MakeWorlds
\nMarcus Rediker and Peter Lineabaugh, \u201cThe Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, and the Atlantic Working Class in the Eighteenth Century,\u201d Gone to Croatan: Origins of North American Dropout Culture. Ed. Ron Sakolsky and James Koehnline (Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 1993), 129-180.
\nNicholas Thoburn, \u201cThe Hobo Anomalous: class, minorities and political invention in the Industrial Workers of the World,\u201d Social Movement Studies Volume 2 Number 1 (2001): 61-84.<\/p>\n

::October 30th – Constituent Power\/\/ Biopolitics\/\/ States of Exception::
\n<\/strong>*Giorgio Agamben, \u201cWhat is a Camp?\u201d Means Without End
\n*Michel Foucault. The History of Sexuality -section on biopolitcs
\n*Maurizio Lazzarato, \u201cFrom Biopower to Biopolitics\u201d
\n*Antonio Negri. Insurgenceis: Constituent Power and the Modern State. Trans. Maurizio Boscagli (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), 1-35.
\nGiorgio Agamben. Homo Sacer
\nWalter Benjamin, \u201cCritique of Violence,\u201d Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings. Trans. Edmund Jephcott (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968), 277 \u2013 300.
\nJacques Derrida, \u201cForce of Law: The ‘Mystical Foundation of Authority’,\u201d Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice. Ed. Drucilla Cornell, Michel Rosenfeld, David Gray Carlson (New York: Routledge, 1992), 3- 67.
\nMichael Hardt and Antonio Negri, “Biopolitical Production,” Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000), 22-41.
\nNikolas Rose, \u201cThe Politics of Life Itself,\u201d Theory, Culture & Society 2001 Vol. 18(6): 1\u201330<\/p>\n

::November 13th – Autonomist Feminism\/\/ Affective Labor\/\/the Body::
\n<\/strong>*Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James. The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community (Bristol: Falling Wall Press, 1972)
\n*Alisa Del Re, \u201cWomen and Welfare: Where is Jocasta?\u201d Radical Thought in Italy: A Potential Politics. Ed. Michael Hardt and Paolo Virno. Trans. Ed Emery (Minneaplois, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1996), 99-113..
\n*Silvia Federici, “Introduction,” Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation (Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 2004), 11-19.
\nLeopoldina Fortunati.The Arcane of Reproction
\nWages for Housework
\n\u201cDevelopment and Reproduction\u201d – Mariarosa Dalla Costa
\nCaffentzis \u2013 On the Notion of a Crisis of Social Reprodction
\nMichael Hardt, \u201cAffectivew Labor\u201d boundary (1999)
\nWomen, Development and Labour Reproduction: Issues of Struggles and Movements \u2013 Ed. The Dalla Costa sisters<\/p>\n

::November 20th -Media\/\/Information Flows\/\/General Intellect::
\n<\/strong>*Nick Dyer-Witherford, \u201cIntellects,\u201d Cyber-Marx, Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High-Technology Capitalism (Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1999), PAGES.
\n*Maurizio Lazzarato, \u201cImmaterial Labor,\u201d Radical Thought in Italy: A Potential Politics. Ed. Michael Hardt and Paolo Virno. Trans. Ed Emery (Minneaplois, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1996), 133-147.
\n*Karl Marx, \u201cFragment on Machines,\u201d Grundrisse. Translated Martin Nicolaus (London: Penguin Books, 1973), 690-712.
\n*Paolo Virno, \u201cNotes on the General Intellect,\u201d Marxism Beyond Marxism. Ed. Saree Makdisi, Cesare Casarino, and Rebecca E. Karl (New York: Routledge, 1996), 262-272.<\/p>\n

::December 4th – Autonomism Today::
\n<\/strong>*Colectivo Situaciones, \u201cFurther Comments on Research Militancy. Footnotes on Procedures and (In)decisions,\u201d ephemera. Trans. Nate Holdren and Sebastian Tsouza. Volume 5 Number 4 (forthcoming November 2005)
\n*Greenpepper Magazine. Precarity Issue
\n*Antonio Negri, \u201cTwenty Theses on Marx: Interpretation of the Class Situation Today,\u201d Marxism Beyond Marxism. Ed. Saree Makdisi, Cesare Casarino, and Rebecca E. Karl (New York: Routledge, 1996), 149-180.
\n*Paolo Virno, ‘Ten Theses on the Multitude and Post-Fordist Capitalism\u201d from Grammar of the Multitude<\/p>\n

::Materials::
\n<\/strong>Romano Alquati, \u201cThe Network of Struggles in Italy,\u201dnotes taken summarizing a presentation by Alquati in the late 1960s.
\nGuido Baldi, “Theses on the Mass Worker and Social Capital,” Radical America, vol.6, No.3, May-June 1972
\nSergio Bologna, \u201cClass Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origin of the Workers Councils Movement,\u201d The Labour Process & Class Strategies. Trans. Bruno Ramirez (London: Stage 1, 1976), 68-91.
\nSergio Bologna, \u201cThe Tribe of Moles,\u201d Italy: Autonomia. Post-political politics. Ed. Sylvere Lotringer and Christian Marazzi (New York: Semiotext, 1980), 36-61.
\nHarry Cleaver. Reading Capital Politically (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1979)
\nLucio Colletti. From Rosseau to Lenin: Studies in Ideology and Society. Trans. John Merrington and Judith White (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972)
\nMariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James. The Power of Women and the Subversion of Community
\nMassimo De Angelis, \u201cMarx and Primitive Accumulation: the Continous Character of Capital’s Enclosures,\u201d The Commoner Number 2 (2001), 1-22.
\nEmpire’s New Clothes: Reading Hardt and Negri. Ed. Paul Passavant and Jodi Dean (New York: Routledge, 2004)
\nephemera Volume 4 Number 3 (August 2004), \u201cTheory of the Multitude\u201d
\nSilvia Federici. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation(Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 2004)
\nMichael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000)
\nMichael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Labor of Dionysus: Critique of State Form
\nMichael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Multitude: Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (New York: Penguin Press, 2004)
\nJohn Holloway, “In the Beginning Was the Scream,” Revolutionary Writing: Common Sense Essays in Post-Political Politics. Ed. Werner Bonefeld (Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 2003), 15-37.
\nItaly: Autonomia. Post-political politics. Ed. Sylvere Lotringer and Christian Marazzi (Semiotext 1980)
\nMidnight Notes Collective. Auroras of the Zapatistas: Local & Global Struggles of the Fourth World War (Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 2001)
\nMidnight Notes Collective. Midnight Oil: Work, Energy, War, 1973 \u2013 1992 (Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 1992)
\nAnonio Negri and Felix Guattari. Communists Like Us. Trans. Michael Ryan (New York: Semiotext(e), 1990)
\nAntonio Negri. Insurgenceis: Constituent Power and the Modern State. Trans. MaurizioBoscagli (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1999)
\nAntonio Negri. Marx Beyond Marx: Lessons on the Grundrisse. Ed. Jim Fleming. Trans. Harry Cleaver, Michael Ryan, Maurizio Viano (Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 1991)
\nAntonio Negri. Negri on Negri: Antonio Negri in Conversation with Anne Dufourmantelle. Trans. M. B. DeVoise (New York: Routledge, 2004)
\nAntonio Negri. Time for Revolution. Trans. Matteo Mandarini (London: Continuum, 2003)
\nToni Negri, \u201cKeynes and the Capitalist Theory of the State Post-1929,\u201d Revolution Retrieved: Selected Writings on Marx, Keynes & New Social Subjects 1967-1983. Ed. Ed Emery (London: Red Notes, 1988)
\nRaniero Panzieri, “Surplus Value and Planning: Notes on the Reading of Capital,” In The Labour Process and Class Strategies. CSE Pamphlet, No.1, London: Stage 1, 1976.
\nGeorge Rawick, “Working Class Self-Activity,” Radical America ,Vol.3, No.2 (March-April 1969)
\nRed Notes. Working Class Autonomy and the Crisis: Italian Marxist Texts of Theory and Practice of a Class Movement, 1964 \u2013 1979. Ed. Ed Emery (London: Red Notes Archive, 1979)
\nTiziana Terranova. Network Culture: Politics and the Information Age (London: Pluto Books, 2004)
\nNicholas Thoburn. Deleuze, Marx, and Politics (London: Routledge, 2003)
\nMario Tronti, \u201cThe Strategy of Refusal,\u201d Italy: Autonomia. Post-political politics. Ed. Sylvere Lotringer and Christian Marazzi (Semiotext 1980), 28-35.
\n-\u201cLenin in England\u201d
\n-\u201cWorkers and Capital\u201d
\nPaolo Virno. Grammar of the Multitude. Trans. Sylv\u010dre Lotringer (New York: Semiotext(e), 2004)
\nSteve Wright. Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism (London: Pluto Press, 2002)
\nZerowork Collective, \u201cIntroduction to Zerowork,\u201d reprinted in Midnight Oil: Work, Energy, War, 1973 \u2013 1992 (Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, [1975] 1992), 109-114.
\nJohn Zerzan, \u201cThe Revolt Against Work,\u201d Telos 1974<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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