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Tag Archives: Mario Tronti
Mario Tronti: Towards a Critique of Political democracy
Democracy has problems with freedom. if it is true that real democracy is configured as liberal-democracy and that in the end this has been the winning solution, it is precisely this conjunction, binding together freedom (or liberty) and democracy, that … 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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Thinking with Mario Tronti
We continue to share material by and about the work of Mario Tronti, in the wake of his recent death. We share a short but excellent essay by Mårten Björk on the trajectory of Tronti’s thought (from NLR/Sidecar 25/08/2023). Embracing … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, Mario Tronti, religion, revolution, socialism
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Mario Tronti: Through the imperative to understand
The revolutions of the twentieth century did not fail because of their excessive rigidity, but because of their excessive suppleness: not by reason of their refusal of the late Modern, but because of their poor adaptation to it. The limit … Continue reading
Mario Tronti: On destituent power
For Mario Tronti, from the Ill Will collective (22/05/2022) … In his influential 2008 interview with Adriano Vinale, Mario Tronti provides some of the earliest speculations on the possibility of a destituent power. Below we present the first English edition … Continue reading
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 (8) – Mario Tronti
Workers’ struggles determine the course of capitalist development; but capitalist development will use those struggles for its own ends if no organized revolutionary process opens up, capable of changing that balance of forces. Mario Tronti In an eloquent, incisive and … Continue reading
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Tagged autonomism, autonomy, italy, Mario Tronti, working class struggle
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Marcello Tarí: Revisiting the Concept of Revolution
“A Conversation with Marcello Tarí” (Translated and Edited by Nikola García), published in PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 31/03/2022. This interview is part of the series Ethnographic Encounters with Destituent Power In this interview conducted by POLAR Digital Editorial Fellow Nikola Garcia, … Continue reading →