Pub Date : 2003-11-01DOI: 10.1080/1040213032000151539
S. Bologna
Storming Heaven is the outcome of research carried out for a PhD thesis and as such is also the first attempt at a critical historical reconstruction of the thought and militant practice of Italian operaismo. The research follows criteria of critical analysis of sources and shows a necessary detachment from events as well as an ability to comprehend its object that derives from a strong feeling of personal involvement with the ideas and motives of revolutionary movements. It is the first historical work on Italian operaismo that breaks with the memoir-autobiographical tradition and the widespread production of perfunctory and often dismissive accounts available so far. Wright uses the concept of “class composition” as an explanatory thread that runs through the peculiar political and intellectual affairs of Italian operaismo. In doing so, he recognizes the importance of a concept that even some operaisti often neglected or regarded as a mere criteria of pure empirical research, secondary to “Grand Politic...
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Pub Date : 2003-11-01DOI: 10.1080/1040213032000151593
Cesare Casarino
Economy of time, to this all economy ultimately reduces itself. (Karl Marx) I On the first page of a 1978 essay entitled “Time and History: Critique of the Instant and the Continuum,” Giorgio Agamben writes: The original task of a genuine revolution...is never merely to “change the world,” but also—and first of all—to “change time.” Modern political thought has concentrated its attention on history, and has not elaborated a corresponding conception of time. Even historical materialism has until now neglected to elaborate a concept of time that compares with its concept of history. Because of this omission it has been unwittingly compelled to have recourse to a concept of time dominant in Western culture for centuries, and so to harbor, side by side, a revolutionary concept of history and a traditional experience of time. The vulgar representation of time as a precise and homogeneous continuum has thus diluted the Marxist concept of history: it has become the hidden breach through which ideology has crept ...
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Pub Date : 2003-11-01DOI: 10.1080/1040213032000151548
S. Wright
Interest in the work of Antonio Negri is considerable these days, and can be measured by a variety of means. For the past few years, the prestigious Italian leftist daily Il manifesto has published the 30 most searched for terms within the newspaper's online edition. Of these, the word “Negri” ranked fifth in 1999, 14th in 2000, ninth in 2001, 11th in 2002, and ninth again for the month of May 2003. Engagement with Negri's work has also been on the rise in the English language press, as reactions to the success of the book Empire (co-authored with Michael Hardt) attest. Within the various circles active against global capital, interest in Negri has also been marked, with his ideas concerning the changing nature of the world capitalist system widely debated.
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Pub Date : 2003-11-01DOI: 10.1080/1040213032000151575
William J. Chaloupka
Empire has an odd concluding sentence. At the end of their 413 page reframing of the political, Hardt and Negri announce, “This is the irrepressible lightness and joy of being communist.” Perhaps this ending plays well in Europe. In the US, however, it falls flat, not least because of the pronounced anti-left sentiment that has only increased over the past decade. But what if we read this concluding sentence for its surprising “irrepressible lightness and joy,” rather than for its communism? The phrase suggests that politics be thought as it has so often been acted, with a buoyant sense of possibility, a delight in intellectual speculation over openings. Such a joyful reading would displace the odd commitment to the dismal that Marxism imposed on radicals, including greens, for a century and a half. Indeed, this displacement, this redirection of left politics, is arguably Empire's most significant contribution.
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Pub Date : 2003-11-01DOI: 10.1080/1040213032000151584
Timothy S. Murphy
Ontology, the theory of being, its logic and categories, is a form of thought that is not generally compatible with Marxism, at least not in an affirmative mode. On the contrary, Marxist analysis almost always takes ontology as the target of ideology critique. Indeed, Marx's 11th thesis on Feuerbach has often been taken as a wholesale negation of ontology or metaphysics in both its idealist and materialist forms, a demonstration of its deceptive contemplative quietism, the practical effect of which is to provide social exploitation with a theoretical, or even theological, alibi: "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it" (Marx and Engels, 1998, p. 571). Thus, Marx apparently felt that his own thought was not philosophy because it was not a metaphysical ideology but a critical practice, and thus he was not a philosopher but a theoretically sophisticated militant. Many Marxists seem to accept these distinctions without a second thought. Take Herbert Marcuse...
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Pub Date : 2003-11-01DOI: 10.1080/1040213032000151557
Eugene W. Holland
One of the difficulties of understanding Empire is that it represents the culmination of work that Hardt and Negri have been pursuing, separately and together, over the last few decades: for better and for worse—for greater economy of expression yet greater difficulty of reading—much of what is said in Empire depends on positions taken and concepts explained in earlier works. My aim here is to reread the later work in relation to some of the earlier work, particularly as it bears on the unusually optimistic tone characteristic of Empire. As unusual as it is, I think that tone can be satisfactorily explained in light of the authors' earlier work; indeed, explanations for it abound there, and I will review several of them. And yet I will suggest that they are not all consistent with one another. I want, in fact, to distinguish within Empire between a methodological optimism (with which I largely agree) and a substantive optimism (about which I have some qualms). It would be wrongheaded and unfair to attribu...
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Pub Date : 2003-05-01DOI: 10.1080/1040213032000078856
W. Roberts
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Pub Date : 2003-05-01DOI: 10.1080/1040213032000078838
R. Snyder
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Pub Date : 2003-05-01DOI: 10.1080/1040213032000078829
J. C. Myers
{"title":"From Stage-ist Theories to a Theory of the Stage: The Concept of Ideology in Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire","authors":"J. C. Myers","doi":"10.1080/1040213032000078829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1040213032000078829","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":177086,"journal":{"name":"Strategies: Journal of Theory, Culture & Politics","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123496568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2003-05-01DOI: 10.1080/1040213032000078847
Amy E. Wendling
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