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From: Arianna <ari@xxxxxxxx>
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Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 21:53:02 +0100
I wonder what others here think of the work of Hardt and Negri and Paolo
Virno? They argue that Foucault did not sufficiently comprehend the link
between biopolitics and the development of labour as commodity. Their
work is derived from Italian operaismo that began with Tronti and
others. Deleuze makes reference to Tronti in his book on Foucault and
speculates that Tronti may have developed similar insights to Foucault
in the 60s. I see their work as an essential addition to Foucault (or
perhaps as a Foucauldianised Marxism) which returns retains the
materiality of power.
Richard
Hi Richard,
I dont think they argue what you say. but since you are interested in
this topic, I hope you wont mind me bombarding you with the resources on
generation-online. the latest addition is an interesting article on
Foucault's lectures published last year by Gallimard on security
territory and population, and the birth of biopolitics (by m.
lazzarato).
http://www.generation-online.org/p/fplazzarato2.htm
the main issue with operaismo and foucault is that resistance comes
first. there are obviously other common elements at play - such as
perspectivism with respect to political epistemology; relational notion
of subjectivity in terms of social ontology; diffuse idea of power and
of refusal in terms of micropolitics; primacy of language in production;
I dont wanna go on and on. I wrote something on this here
http://www.generation-online.org/other/acop/acop_postfordism.htm
but there are also other articles on our site on foucault by operaisti,
such as negri's 'a contribution on foucault', 2004
http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpnegri14.htm
ciao
arianna