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Autonomia: A Reading Group The group will run on four consecutive Tuesdays, 7-9 throughout October and early November. Tuesdays, 11th October, 18th October, 25th October and 1st November. DATES AND READING MATERIAL: Week 1, Tuesday 11th October, 20011, 7.00-9.00pm Week 2, Tuesday 18th October, 2011, 7.00-9.00pm Week 3, Tuesday 25th October, 2011, 7.00-9.00pm Week 4, Tuesday 1st November, 2011, 7.00-9.00pm RECOMMENDED BACKGROUND READING: ‘Bifo’ Berardi, Anatomy of Autonomy, In, Italy: Autonomia. Post-political politics.Ed. Sylvere Lotringer and Christian Marazzi, Semiotext, 1980, pp.148-170 http://www.generation-online.org/t/autonomia2.pdf Karl Marx , Fragment on Machines, Grundrisse, pp.690-712 http://thenewobjectivity.com/pdf/marx.pdf Autonomia: A Reading Group The group will run on four Tuesdays, 7-9pm, throughout July and early August. Tuesdays 5th July, 12th July, 26th July and 2nd August. – note changed date for two last readings! Venue: The Free Hetherington, 13 University Gardens, Glasgow University, Glasgow. Autonomy is a concept much discussed, but perhaps less well understood. This may well be due to the relative neglect of autonomist thought in the UK compared to other European countries such as Italy, France and Greece. This reading group aims to make inroads into that neglect by exploring in detail four classic texts from the movement of Italian Autonomist Marxism; a movement widely considered as the most advanced expression of autonomist thought in the 20th century. The reading group will explore key selections from Mario Tronti, Antonio Negri, Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Sergio Bologna. We introduce a broad sweep of theoretical innovation from 1964 to 1977, covering such key ideas as the mass worker; the refusal of work and the autonomy of the class; the critique of the Keynesian planner-state; feminism, reproduction and the social factory, and class composition as a mode of radical research and transformative activity. The group is not afraid to be caught learning: our aim is to encourage an open collective learning process for working through some of the fundamental texts of autonomism and autonomia. The group aims to develop deeper critical engagement with some of what we regard as the most important revolutionary writing of the last century. To make the discussion more participatory, reading the texts before each session is encouraged, but this is not mandatory. The group is open to all. DATES AND READING MATERIAL: Week 1 Tuesday, 5th, July, 2011, 7.00-9.00pm: Week 2 Tuesday, 12th July, 2011, 7.00-9.00pm: Week 3 now changed to Tuesday, 26th July, 2011, 7.00-9.00pm: Week 4 now changed to Tuesday, 2nd August, 2011, 7.00-9.00pm: BACKGROUND READING (optional) Sylvere Lotringer and Christian Marazzi, eds. Italy: Autonomia. Post-political politics. Ed. Sylvere Lotringer and Christian Marazzi, New York: Semiotext, 1980. http://www.generation-online.org/t/ppp.htm Harry Cleaver. Introduction, Reading Capital Politically, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1979, pp.3-66. link Steve Wright, Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism, Pluto Press, 2002. link |