Recent works available for purchase online :
Antonio Negri Illustrated: Interview in Venice : Revolutionary, philosopher, best-selling author, political prisoner and one-time exile, Antonio Negri is today considered one of the world’s most influential radicals. Claudio Calia takes us on an intimate visit to Negri’s Venice home as we sit amidst busts of Lenin, communist propaganda, and the ghosts of 1968. A truly insightful book that traces the connections between Negri’s revolutionary experiences and his most recent thinking on “multitudes”. Beautifully illustrated and elegantly narrated, the book is both indispensible to the beginner yet a must-have for readers already familiar with Negri’s works. A truly insightful book that traces the connections between Negri’s revolutionary experiences and his most recent thinking on “multitudes”. Beautifully illustrated and elegantly narrated, the book is both indispensible to the beginner yet a must-have for readers already familiar with Negri’s works.
The Violence of Financial Capitalism : The 2010 English-language edition of Christian Marazzi’s The Violence of Financial Capitalism made a groundbreaking work on the global financial crisis available to an expanded readership. This new edition has been updated to reflect recent events, up to and including the G20 summit in July 2010 and the broad consensus to reduce government spending that emerged from it. This leading figure in the European postfordist movement, argues that the processes of financialization are not simply irregularities between the traditional categories of wages, rent, and profit, but rather a new type of accumulation adapted to the processes of social and cognitive production today. The financial crisis, he contends, is a fundamental component of contemporary accumulation and not a classic lack of economic growth.
Crisis in the Global Economy : Crisis in the Global Economy is the latest and most innovative collective reflection on the state of global capitalism, developed in the mobile “multiversity” of the UniNomade network of international researchers and activists during the months immediately following the first signals of the current financial and economic crisis. It constitutes the first organic and interdisciplinary attempt to analyze a crisis that is not merely financial in nature but implicates globalization and neoliberal capitalism.
Luciano Fabro : Inhabiting Autonomy : Luciano Fabro, an important artist in the “Arte Povera” movement, incarnated, in his own way, the concept of autonomy throughout his career as both artist and teacher. He has managed to maintain both a critical approach and an analytical attitude which has brought him to question the autonomy of the artist, the work of art and their relationship to the city. Through a significant production of theoretical texts, he has defended the idea that the domain of the arts is the space where liberty is a form of committed dilettantism and the oeuvre the result of the position of author.
Toward a Global Autonomous University. Cognitive Labor, The Production of Knowledge, and Exodus from the Education Factory : What was once the factory is now the university. We started off with this apparently straightforward affirmation, not in order to assume it but to question it; to open it, radically rethinking it, towards theoretical and political research. The Edu-factory project took off from here….Edu-factory is, above all, a partisan standpoint on the crisis of the university…. The state university is in ruins, the mass university is in ruins, and the university as a privileged place of national culture — just like the concept of national culture itself — is in ruins.
