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Apocalypse and Survival
APOCALYPSE AND SURVIVAL FRANCESCO SANTINI JULY 1994 FOREWORD !e publication of the Opere complete [Complete Works] of Giorgio Cesa- rano, which commenced in the summer of 1993 with the publication of the "rst comprehensive edition of Critica dell’utopia capitale [Critique of the uto- pia of capital], is the fruit of the activity of a group of individuals who were directly inspired by the radical critique of which Cesarano was one of the pioneers. In 1983, a group of comrades who came from the “radical current” founded the Accademia dei Testardi [Academy of the Obstinate], which published, among other things, three issues of the journal, Maelström. !is core group, which still exists, drew up a balance sheet of its own revolution- ary experience (which has only been partially completed), thus elaborating a preliminary dra# of our activity, with the republication of the work of Gior- gio Cesarano in addition to the discussion stimulated by the interventions collected in this text.$ In this work we shall seek to situate Cesarano’s activity within its his- torical context, contributing to a critical delimitation of the collective envi- ronment of which he formed a part. We shall do this for the purpose of more e%ectively situating ourselves in the present by clarifying our relation with the revolutionary experience of the immediate past. !is is a necessary theoret- ical weapon for confronting the situation in which we "nd ourselves today, which requires the ability to resist and endure in totally hostile conditions, similar in some respects to those that revolutionaries had to face at the begin- ning of the seventies. -
Félix Guattari: Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography
9780230_221192_01_prexvi.pdf 10/3/08 11:31 AM Page i Félix Guattari 9780230_221192_01_prexvi.pdf 10/3/08 11:31 AM Page ii Also by Franco Berardi (Bifo) Scrittura e movimento (Rome: Marsilio, 1970). Chi ha ucciso Majakovski? (Milan: Squi/libri, 1977). with Alain Guillerme and Pierre Rival, L’ideologia francese: contro in ‘nouveaux philosophes’ (Milan: Squi/libri, 1977). Dell’innocenza: interpretazione del ‘77 (Bologna: Agalev, 1987). Politiche della mutazione (Milan/Bologna: Synergon, 1991). with Franco Bolelli, 60/90: dalla psichedelia alla telepatica (Milan/Bologna: Synergon, 1992). Mutazione e cyberpunk. Immaginario e tecnologia negli scenari di fine millennio (Milan: Costa & Nolan, 1994). Come si cura il nazi (Rome: Castelvecchi, 1994). Dell’innocenza: 1977, l’anno della premonizione (Verona: Ombre Corte, 1997). La nefasta utopia di Potere Operaio (Rome: Castelvecchi, 1998). La fabbrica dell ‘infelicita’: new economy e movimento del cognitariato (Rome: Derive-Approdi, 2001). Il sapiente, il mercante, il guerriero. Dal rifiuto del lavoro all’emergere del cognitariato (Rome: Derive-Approdi, 2004). Skizomedia. Trent’anni di mediattivismo (Rome: Derive-Approdi, 2006). Giuseppina Mecchia With Max Henninger and Timothy Murphy (eds) ‘Italian Post-Workerist Thought’, SubStance 112, Special Issue (2007). Charles J. Stivale The Two-Fold Thought of Deleuze and Guattari: Intersections and Animations (New York: Guilford Publications, 1998). Disenchanting Les Bons Temps: Identity and Authenticity in Cajun Music and Dance (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003). Editor, Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts (Chesham, UK: Acumen Publications/Montreal: McGill Queens University Press, 2005). Gilles Deleuze’s ABCs: The Folds of Friendship (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008). 9780230_221192_01_prexvi.pdf 10/3/08 11:31 AM Page iii Félix Guattari Thought, Friendship and Visionary Cartography Franco Berardi (Bifo) Translated and edited by Giuseppina Mecchia and Charles J. -
Where Did Braverman Go Wrong? a Marxist Response to the Politicist Critiques
Where did Braverman go wrong? A Marxist response to the politicist critiques Onde está errado Braverman? A resposta marxista às críticas politicistas Eduardo Sartelli1 Marina Kabat2 Abstract Braverman is considered an unquestionable reference of Marxist labour process. The objective of this paper is to show that despite Braverman’s undeniable achievements he forsakes the classical Marxist notions related to work organization, i. e. simple cooperation, manufacture and large-scale industry and replaces them with the notion of Taylorism. We also intend to show that because of this abandonment, Braverman cannot explain properly how the deskilling tendency operates in different historical periods, and in distinct industry branches. Finally, we try to demonstrate that those Marxist concepts neglected by Braverman are especially useful to understand labor unrest related to job organization. Braverman overvalues the incidence of labor fragmentation and direct forms of control and disregards the impact of mechanization achieved with the emergence of Large-scale industry and the new forms of control associated with it. Whereas Braverman’s allegedly Marxist orthodoxy is considered responsible for this, in fact, exactly the opposite can be asserted: the weaknesses of the otherwise noteworthy work of Harry Braverman are grounded in his relinquishment of some crucial Marxist concepts. We state that labor processes conventionally considered Taylorist or Fordist can be reconceptualized in Marxist classic terms allowing a better understanding of the dynamic of conflicts regarding labor process. Keywords: Labor process. Politics. Marxism. Regulationism. Workers’ Struggles. Resumo Braverman é considerado uma referência inquestionável do processo de trabalho marxista. O objetivo deste artigo é mostrar que, apesar das contribuições inegáveis de Braverman ele abandona as noções marxistas clássicas relacionadas à organização do trabalho, a saber, cooperação simples, manufatura e grande-indústria e substituí-las com a noção do taylorismo. -
Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams
The Long Read: What Will We Do in the Post-Work Utopia? by Mareile Pfannebecker and J.A. Smith blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2016/06/17/the-long-read-what-will-we-do-in-the-post-work-utopia-by-mareile-pfannebecker-and-j-a-smith/ The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work . David Frayne. Zed Books. 2015. Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work. Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams. Verso. 2015. Find these books: There is today a preoccupation with the idea of ‘the end of work’: whether in chronicling the decline of permanent careers in the age of precarity; dystopian warnings that digitisation is about to bring a new age of mass unemployment; or utopian demands that we seize the opportunity to radically redefine our relationship to work. The most practical proposal of the latter is the campaign for a Universal Basic Income, an amount paid to every citizen without means- testing, the cost of which, it is argued, could be defrayed by a combination of savings in welfare bureaucracy and reductions in health spending. Until recently, UBI was spoken of as a ‘thought experiment’, but numerous countries are now witnessing campaigns and trials dedicated to making the policy a reality. In Britain, the Green Party, Labour and the SNP have expressed varying levels of openness to it, and there are also advocates on the libertarian Right. The basic annual amount of £3,692 proposed by UK campaigners may not keep the majority from pursuing further income, but such practical questions are less significant than the change that UBI represents to the very ontology of work. -
In Reply Refer to UODA
In reply refer to UODA U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Manpower Administration Bureau of Employment Security Unemployment Insurance Program Letter No. 984 September 20, 1968 TO: ALL STATE EMPLOYMENT SECURITY AGENCIES SUBJECT: Benefit Determinations and Appeals Decisions Which Require Determination of Prevailing Wages, Hours, or Other Conditions of Work REFERENCES: Section 3304(a)(5)(B) of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act; Principles Underlying the Prevailing Conditions of Work Standard, September 1950, BSSUI (originally issued January 6, 1947 as Unemployment Compensation Program Letter No. 130) Purpose and Scope To advise State agencies and appeal authorities of the interpretation of the phrase "new work" for the purpose of applying the prevailing wage and conditions-of-work standard in section 3304(a)(5)(B) of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act, particularly in relation to an offer of work made by an employer for whom the individual is working at the time the offer is made. This letter is prompted primarily by a current problem arising from a number of recent cases in which findings were not made with respect to the prevailing wages, hours, or other conditions of the work, because appar- ently it was not considered that "new work" was involved. Federal Statutory Provision Involved Section 3304(a)(5) of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act, the so-called labor standards provision, requires State unemployment insurance laws, as a condition of approval for tax credit, to provide that: "compensation shall not be denied in such State to any otherwise -
Sisyphus and the Labour of Imagination: Autonomy, Cultural Production, and the Antinomies of Worker Self-Management
Sisyphus and the Labour of Imagination: Autonomy, Cultural Production, and the Antinomies of Worker Self-Management Stevphen Shukaitis1 Abstract Is there any radical potential left in the notion and practices of worker self-management? What I want do in this essay is to try and see if it is possible to distill something of a radical kernel from the many difficulties and complications that confront it, particularly within fields of cultural production. How can self- management contribute to what Jacques Ranciere describes as a movement not of slaves filled with ressentiment, but of people living and embodying a new time of sociability and cooperation, creating resources and skills that can spread out from this, rather than being caught and contained by the conditions of is own creation? Drawing from my own experiences working in Ever Reviled Records, a worker owned and run record label, I want to ferret out--conducting something akin to an organizational autoethnography--hints as to whether or not self-management could be useful for radical social struggles today. Introduction Let us imagine, for a change, an association of free men working with the means of production held in common, and expending their many different forms of labour-power in full self-awareness as one single social labour force…. The total product of our imagined association is a social product…. This, however, requires that society possess a material foundation, or a series of material conditions of existence, which in their turn are the natural and spontaneous product -
The Temporary Autonomous Zone
THE TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ZONE "...this time however I come as the victorious Dionysus, who will turn the world into a holiday...Not that I have much time..." --Nietzsche (from his last "insane" letter to Cosima Wagner) Pirate Utopias THE SEA-ROVERS AND CORSAIRS of the 18th century created an "information network" that spanned the globe: primitive and devoted primarily to grim busi- ness, the net nevertheless functioned admirably. Scattered throughout the net were islands, remote hideouts where ships could be watered and provisioned, booty traded for luxuries and necessities. Some of these islands supported "intentional communities," whole mini-societies living consciously outside the law and determined to keep it up, even if only for a short but merry life. Some years ago I looked through a lot of secondary material on piracy hoping to find a study of these enclaves--but it appeared as if no historian has yet found them worthy of analysis. (William Burroughs has mentioned the subject, as did the late British anarchist Larry Law--but no systematic research has been carried out.) I retreated to primary sources and constructed my own theory, some aspects of which will be discussed in this essay. I called the settle- ments "Pirate Utopias." Recently Bruce Sterling, one of the leading exponents of Cyberpunk science fiction, published a near-future romance based on the assumption that the decay of political systems will lead to a decentralized proliferation of experiments in living: giant worker-owned corporations, independent enclaves devoted to "data piracy," Green-Social-Democrat enclaves, Zerowork enclaves, anarchist liberated zones, etc. -
Seeking and Accepting Suitable Work
SECTION VI – SEEK AND ACCEPT WORK / REFUSAL OF WORK VI-1 Definition of Seeking and Accepting Suitable Work VI-10 Search for Work (A) Commission Required Contacts (B) Lack of Transportation (C) Moving to Different Area (D) Newspaper Advertisements (E) Telephone Contacts Only (F) Undue Restrictions (G) Union VI-20 Refusal of Referral (A) Commuting Distance (B) Different Shift (C) Part-Time or Temporary Work (D) Personal Reasons (E) Relocation (F) Union Hiring Hall Referral (G) Unsuitable Work VI-30 Refusal of Employment (A) After Receipt of 50% of Benefits (B) Before Filing for Benefits (C) Child Care (D) Commuting Distance (E) Humiliation or Embarrassment (F) Job Offered to Deny Claimant Benefits (G) Medical Limitations (H) Same Job/ Different Shift (I) Seasonal Work (J) Undue Restrictions (K) Unsuitable Work (L) -1-2 Wages (M) With Former Employer SECTION VII- PROCEDURES FOR OBJECTIONS AND APPEALS SECTION VIII - MISCELLANEOUS SEEKING AND ACCEPTING SUITABLE WORK A claimant’s search for work and willingness to apply for and accept suitable work is a good indication of continuing availability for work as required in Sec. 2-205 and is closely linked to the adjudication of that issue. A claimant for UI benefits is expected to demonstrate continued availability for work measured by what one does in an attempt to become reemployed in a reasonable time. Reemployment of unemployed workers is an important part of the original mission of the Employment Security system; involving both the job placement/training and UI components of that system. The goal is to encourage and assist in that reemployment before the exhaustion of benefits in order to maintain or restore the economic security of the worker. -
The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery
The afterlife of reproductive slavery This page intentionally left blank Alys Eve Weinbaum The afterlife of reproductive slavery Biocapitalism and Black Feminism’s Philosophy of History duke university press | durham and london | 2019 © 2019 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of Amer i ca on acid- free paper ∞ Designed by Julienne Alexander Typeset in Quadraat Pro and Scala Sans Pro by Westchester Publishing Ser vices Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Weinbaum, Alys Eve, [date] author. Title: The afterlife of reproductive slavery : biocapitalism and Black feminism’s philosophy of history / Alys Eve Weinbaum. Description: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers:lccn 2018035543 (print) lccn 2018047129 (ebook) isbn 9781478003281 (ebook) isbn 9781478001768 (hardcover : alk. paper) isbn 9781478002840 (pbk. : alk. paper) Subjects: lcsh: Womanism— United States. | Human reproduction— Political aspects— United States. | Surrogate motherhood— United States— History. | African American women— Social conditions— History. | Women slaves— Atlantic Ocean Region. | Slavery— United States— History. | Slavery— Atlantic Ocean Region. Classification:lcc ht1523 (ebook) | lcc ht1523 .w44 2019 (print) | ddc 306.3/620973— dc23 lc rec ord available at https:// lccn . loc . gov / 2018035543 Cover art: Senga Nengudi, Per for mance Piece, 1978. Nylon mesh and artist Maren Hassinger. Pearl C. Woods Gal- lery, Los Angeles. Photo by Harmon Outlaw. -
Félix Guattari Also By
Félix Guattari Also by Franco Berardi (Bifo) Scrittura e movimento (Rome: Marsilio, 1970). Chi ha ucciso Majakovski? (Milan: Squi/libri, 1977). with Alain Guillerme and Pierre Rival, L’ideologia francese: contro in ‘nouveaux philosophes’ (Milan: Squi/libri, 1977). Dell’innocenza: interpretazione del ‘77 (Bologna: Agalev, 1987). Politiche della mutazione (Milan/Bologna: Synergon, 1991). with Franco Bolelli, 60/90: dalla psichedelia alla telepatica (Milan/Bologna: Synergon, 1992). Mutazione e cyberpunk. Immaginario e tecnologia negli scenari di fine millennio (Milan: Costa & Nolan, 1994). Come si cura il nazi (Rome: Castelvecchi, 1994). Dell’innocenza: 1977, l’anno della premonizione (Verona: Ombre Corte, 1997). La nefasta utopia di Potere Operaio (Rome: Castelvecchi, 1998). La fabbrica dell ‘infelicita’: new economy e movimento del cognitariato (Rome: Derive-Approdi, 2001). Il sapiente, il mercante, il guerriero. Dal rifiuto del lavoro all’emergere del cognitariato (Rome: Derive-Approdi, 2004). Skizomedia. Trent’anni di mediattivismo (Rome: Derive-Approdi, 2006). Giuseppina Mecchia With Max Henninger and Timothy Murphy (eds) ‘Italian Post-Workerist Thought’, SubStance 112, Special Issue (2007). Charles J. Stivale The Two-Fold Thought of Deleuze and Guattari: Intersections and Animations (New York: Guilford Publications, 1998). Disenchanting Les Bons Temps: Identity and Authenticity in Cajun Music and Dance (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003). Editor, Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts (Chesham, UK: Acumen Publications/Montreal: McGill Queens University Press, 2005). Gilles Deleuze’s ABCs: The Folds of Friendship (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008). Félix Guattari Thought, Friendship and Visionary Cartography Franco Berardi (Bifo) Translated and edited by Giuseppina Mecchia and Charles J. Stivale © Franco Berardi (Bifo) 2008 Translation © Giuseppina Mecchia and Charles J. -
Workbook 4. Tiziana Terranova
Cuaderno de trabajo 4.1 Tiziana Terranova Sobreexplotados e infrapagados. Trabajo gratis, precariedad y creación Tiziana Terranova y Trebor Scholz Conferencia: Miércoles, 12 de septiembre, 19:00 h / Edificio Sabatini, Auditorio Taller de investigación: Jueves, 13 de septiembre, 11:00 h / Edificio Nouvel, Centro de Estudios Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Dentro del ciclo “Seis contradicciones y el fin del presente” (26 de marzo – 18 de diciembre, 2018) Índice 1. Tiziana Terranova, «Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy», Social Text, 63, vol. 18, n. 2, Summer, 2000, pp. 33-58, Duke University Press. 2. Tiziana Terranova, «Attention, Economy And The Brain», Culture Machine, vol. 13, 2012. 3. Tiziana Terranova, «Red stack attack! Algoritmos, capital y la automatización del común», en Armen Avanessian, Mauro Reis et al., Aceleracionismo, Buenos Aires, Caja Negra, 2017. Tiziana Terranova y Trebor Scholz 1. Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy Tiziana Terranova, Social Text, 63, vol. 18, n. 2, Summer, 2000, pp. 33-58, Duke University Press. For additional information about this article http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/soc/summary/v018/18.2terranova.html The real not-capital is labor. Karl Marx, Grundrisse, 1857-1858 Working in the digital media industry is not as much fun as it is made out to be. The “NetSlaves” of the eponymous Webzine are becoming increasingly vociferous about the shamelessly exploitative nature of the job, its punishing work rhythms, and its ruthless casualization. They talk about “24-7 electronic sweatshops” and complain about the ninety-hour weeks and the “moronic management of new media companies.” In early 1999, seven of the fifteen thousand “volunteers” of America Online (AOL) rocked the info-loveboat by asking the Department of Labor to investigate whether AOL owes them back wages for the years of playing chathosts for free.1 They used to work long hours and love it; now they are starting to feel the pain of being burned by digital media. -
The Autonomy of Struggles and the Self-Management of Squats: Legacies of Intertwined Movements Miguel A
Interface: a journal for and about social movements Article Volume 11 (1): 178 – 199 (July 2019) Martínez, The Autonomy of Struggles The autonomy of struggles and the self-management of squats: legacies of intertwined movements Miguel A. Martínez Abstract How do squatters’ movements make a difference in urban politics? Their singularity in European cities has often been interpreted according to the major notion of ‘autonomy’. However, despite the recent upsurge of studies about squatting (Cattaneo et al. 2014, Katsiaficas 2006, Martínez et al. 2018, Van der Steen et al. 2014), there has not been much clarification of its theoretical, historical and political significance. Autonomism has also been identified as one of the main ideological sources of the recent global justice and anti-austerity movements (Flesher 2014) after being widely diffused among European squatters for more than four decades, which prompts a question about the meaning of its legacy. In this article, I first examine the political background of autonomism as a distinct identity among radical movements in Europe in general (Flesher et al. 2013, Wennerhag et al. 2018), and the squatters in particular—though not often explicitly defined. Secondly, I stress the social, feminist and anti-capitalist dimensions of autonomy that stem from the multiple and specific struggles in which squatters were involved over different historical periods. These aspects have been overlooked or not sufficiently examined by the literature on squatting movements. By revisiting relevant events and discourses of the autonomist tradition linked to squatting in Italy, Germany and Spain, its main traits and some contradictions are presented. Although political contexts indicate different emphases in each case, some common origins and transnational exchanges justify an underlying convergence and its legacies over time.