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Tag Archives: autonomism
For Paolo Virno (1952-2025)
Héctor Pávon: For you, what is the meaning of the word revolution today? Paolo Virno: Perhaps we could do without the word revolution because this model was that of taking power and constructing a new State. It may be better … Continue reading
From Revolution to Destitution
We are confronted with an expansion of the revolution that reaches the point of becoming something else. Today’s uprisings point toward an anthropological and no longer merely a political revolution, in which Marx’s distinction between political and social revolution begins … Continue reading
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Tagged Aimé Césaire, autonomism, Colectivo Situaciones, Enzo Traverso, François Lyotard, Frantz Fanon, George Jackson, Guy Debord, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Luc Nancy, Karl Korsch, Marcello Tarì, Mario Tronti, Michel Foucault, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, revolt, revolution, Situationists, Walter Benjamin
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Mario Tronti: “I am defeated”
For Mario Tronti, from Communists in situ; Italian original / Mar 3rd, 2015 Translated by Rees Nicolas Under the soles of his shoes, you can still recognise the dirt of history. “This is all that remains. A mix of straw and shit … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, autonomism, italy, Mario Tronti, marxism
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Mario Tronti: “In art as in politics there is nothing other than struggle”
For Mario Tronti (from Blackout) … Can you really be outside? This is the question I asked Mario the last time we talked (Francesco Matarrese | Greenberg and Tronti: Being Really Outside?). Today, the eighth of January, his important, extraordinary answer arrived. Now … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, Art and Revolution, autonomism, Mario Tronti, marxism
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For Mario Tronti (1931-2023)
For Mario Tronti, who died this last August 7th, we share a short text by Diego Sztulwark and Mario Tronti’s Thesis on Benjamin. Today Mario Tronti passed away. His 92 years were many, but he will surely remain the author … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, autonomism, italy, Mario Tronti, marxism
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Italy: Autonomia (20) – Porto Marghera: the last firebrands
We close our brief selection of texts dedicated to Italy’s operaismo and Autonomia returning to where in some sense it all began, amidst the workers of the country’s large industrial complexes and their struggles for dignity as workers, but struggles … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, autonomism, italy, revolution, workers councils
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Italy: Autonomia (19) – Feminism: Carla Lonzi
Woman must not be defined in relation to man. This awareness is the foundation of both our struggle and our liberation. Man is not the model to hold up for the process of woman’s self-discovery. Woman is the other in … Continue reading
Italy: Autonomia (18) – Feminism: Silvia Federici
Italian autonomist Silvia Federici on wages and housework. Federici was co-founder of the International Feminist Collective, and an organizer with the wages for housework campaign. In 1973, she helped start Wages for Housework groups in the US. In 1975 she published Wages Against … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, autonomism, Feminism, italy, revolution, Silvia Federici
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Italy: Autonomia (17) – Feminism: Leopoldina Fortunati
A personal reflection on the feminist movement within Italy’s Autonomia. Learning to struggle: my story between workerism and feminism When I encountered workerism, I was 19 years old. I was a grassroots militant of the students’ movement from the University … Continue reading
An Orgasm of History: 1977 in Italy – Digression on the Thread of Memory by a former Situationist
by Gianfranco Sanguinetti We share below a new translation of “An Orgasm of History: 1977 in Italy,” a text Gianfranco Sanguinetti wrote in 2017, on the 40th anniversary of the 1977 insurrectionary movement in Italy, about which little is known … Continue reading →