Autonomism

In, Against, and Beyond the Empire Trilogy: Notes on Antagonism as Media Form

by Stevphen Shukaitis

(2011) Journal of Communication Inquiry 35(4) 328–334

Discussion of political antagonism as media form in relation to Hardt & Negri's Empire triology (and the... more Discussion of political antagonism as media form in relation to Hardt & Negri's Empire triology (and the autonomist / post-workerist tradition more broadly).

Review of Holloway, J. (2010) Crack Capitalism (London: Pluto)

by Christian Garland

Review of Holloway, J. (2010) Crack Capitalism (London: Pluto) for Marx and Philosophy Review of Books

'Autonomism'

by Christian Garland

‘Autonomism’ pps. 322-325 International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500-the present ed. Ness, I. (Oxford & New York: Blackwell Publishing) http://www.revolutionprotestencyclopedia.com/public/

The New Cooperativism

by Marcelo Vieta

(2010). Editorial for guest-edited issue of Affinities: A Journal of Radical Theory, Culture, and Action, 4 (1), pp. 1-11.

Cooperative practices and values that challenge the status quo while, at the same time, creating alternative modes of... more Cooperative practices and values that challenge the status quo while, at the same time, creating alternative modes of economic, cultural, social, and political life have emerged with dynamism in recent years. The 15 articles in this issue of _Affinities_--written by activists, coop practitioners, theorists, historians, and researchers--begin to make visible some of the myriad modes of cooperation existing today around the world that both directly respond to new enclosures and crises and show pathways beyond them. Prefiguring other possibilities for organizing life and provisioning for our needs and desires, we call these cooperative experiments "the new cooperativism."

Table of Contents for the Affinities issue on 'The New Cooperativism' (Guest edited by Marcelo Vieta)

Editorial

The New Cooperativism HTML PDF
Marcelo Vieta

Historicizing and Theorizing the New Cooperativism

The Cooperative Movement in Century 21
John Curl

Commons and Cooperatives
Greig de Peuter, Nick Dyer-Witheford

Sisyphus and the Labour of Imagination: Autonomy, Cultural Production, and the Antinomies of Worker Self-Management
Stevphen Shukaitis

A Buzz between Rural Cooperation and the Online Swarm
Andrew Gryf Paterson

The Sangham Strategy: Lessons for a Cooperative Mode of
Production
Sourayan Mookerjea

Practicing the New Cooperativism

Decomposition and Suburban Space
Conor Cash
Justseeds Artists' Cooperative
Dara Greenwald

Solidarity Food Economies?
J Howard

Cooperatives and the 'Bolivarian Revolution' in Venezuela
Tom Malleson

Social Centres and the New Cooperativism of the Common
Andre Pusey

The New University Cooperative: Reclaiming Higher Education: Prioritizing Social Justice and Ecological Sustainability
E. Wilma van der Veen

Researching the New Cooperativism
Recycling Technologies and Cooperativism: Waste-for-Life
Caroline Baillie, Eric Feinblatt

Italian Social Cooperatives and the Development of Civic Capacity: A Case of Cooperative Renewal?
Vanna Gonzales

The Universe of Worker-Recovered Companies in Argentina (2002-2008): Continuity and Changes Inside the Movement
Héctor Palomino, Ivanna Bleynat, Silvia Garro, Carla Giacomuzzi

Praxis, Learning, and New Cooperativism in Venezuela: An Initial Look at Venezuela's Socialist Production Units
Manuel Larrabure

Towards a Futurology of the Present: Notes on Writing, Movement, and Time

by Marco Cuevas-Hewitt

Published in the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest in December 2011. PDF came out weird (I'll replace it when I get time), so better to visit the link!

First paragraph: "Has there ever been a revolution without its musicians, artists, and writers? Could we imagine... more First paragraph: "Has there ever been a revolution without its musicians, artists, and writers? Could we imagine the Zapatista movement, for example, without its poetry and lyricism? At this moment, I am writing from the specific location of the west coast of Australia, on land known to Aboriginal Australians as Beeliar Boodjar. Across the Indian Ocean, remarkable things are happening in North Africa. I listen on the internet to the songs of freedom being sung in Tahrir Square, as well as to the young hip-hop artists who provided the soundtrack to the revolution in Tunisia. But their YouTube videos are not the only things going viral. Significantly, their mutant desires, of which their music is an expression, are also beginning to ripple outwards. I feel it here at my kitchen table as I type, as viscerally as the caffeine flowing through my body. I also see it on the evening news in Spain and Greece. Perhaps the alterglobalisation movement never died, but was simply laying in wait. Perhaps we are only at the beginning. And perhaps there is little real difference in our movements between making music and making change; between the creation of art and the creation of new social relations through our activisms. Our common art is the crafting of new ways of being, of seeing, of valuing; in short, the cultivation of new forms of life, despite and beyond the deadening, ossified structures all around us..."

Italian feminism, workerism and autonomy in the 1970s The struggle against unpaid reproductive labour and violence

by Patrick Gun Cuninghame

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Based on interviews and social movement primary sources, this article critically analyzes the contributions of that... more Based on interviews and social movement primary sources, this article critically analyzes the contributions of that current of Italian feminism which, while maintaining its distance, has both influenced and been influenced by the evolution from the neo-Marxist workerist movements of the 1960s to today’s global autonomist movements. Through the writings of Mariarosa Dalla Costa and other academics, and the activism of New Left-related feminists movements such as Lotta Feminista, one of the first transnational feminist movements, Wages for Housework, began to network in North America and Western Europe from the mid 1970s. In their campaign against sexual violence within the working class family as a disciplinary measure used by men to force unwaged housework from women, and their demands for waged housework, sex work and other forms of unwaged reproductive labour as part of an overall demand for a guaranteed social salary, these theoretician-activists have made links with grassroots, autonomous movements among mainly non-unionised women workers. They have critiqued the limits of both the liberal-feminist discourse on participation in the labour market as the prerequisite for equal opportunities, and the dependence of much socialist-feminist discourse on the centrality of the welfare state for female emancipation.

“A Laughter That Will Bury You All”: Irony as Protest and Language as Struggle in the Italian 1977 Movement

by Patrick Gun Cuninghame

International Review of Social History
International Review of Social History (2007), 52: 153-168 Copyright © 2007 Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis DOI: 10.1017/S0020859007003173 (About DOI) Published online: 21 November 2007

Perhaps the most innovative aspect of the Italian “1977 Movement” in its conflict with the grey, humourless political... more Perhaps the most innovative aspect of the Italian “1977 Movement” in its conflict with the grey, humourless political system was its use of irony to ridicule its opponents. Irony was central to the identity of the movement and its cultural and political break with the institutional old and vanguardist new lefts. Its use, particularly by the “Metropolitan Indians”, the transversalists and other “creatives”, marked a social revolt by mainly marginalized young people, who invented a new political counter-culture based on linguistic experimentation in circumstances far from the optimism of 1968. The paper, based directly on primary sources from the movement and on interviews with former participants, reassesses a movement usually characterized as “violent” by Italianist social history. It concludes that the movement's “ironic praxis” contributed to a fundamental change in Italian society in the late seventies and has influenced the political style of contemporary alter-globalist and anti-capitalist movements.

FOR AN ANALYSIS OF AUTONOMIA: AN INTERVIEW WITH SERGIO BOLOGNA

by Patrick Gun Cuninghame

LEFT  HISTORY, VOL. 7, NO. 2, FALL 2001, PP89-102.

Movimento is delighted to offer, as part of our "Storie d'Italia '68-'77" series, an interview by Patrick... more Movimento is delighted to offer, as part of our "Storie d'Italia '68-'77" series, an interview by Patrick Cuninghame with Sergio Bologna in which they discuss the political and cultural implications of the various social movements that sprang up in Italy in the 1970's and in particular Autonomia. The interview was conducted in June 1995 in Mexico City.