Acid Horizon The Refusal of Work in Guattari and Negri's 'Communists Like Us'
Jan 20, 2022
The podcast discusses Antonio Negri’s and Felix Guattari’s essay 'Communists Like Us' and examines the causes of the worker movement's failure in Italy. They explore communist potentialities in opposition movements and the schisms within autonomist movements. Topics covered include liberating work, Italian politics, real and formal subsumption, molar antagonisms, molecular proliferation, political representation, rethinking production in the women's movement, Negri's north-south axis, and the refusal of work as resistance.
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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
Communists Like Us and Italian Politics
01:39 • 16min
Real and Formal Subsumption: Understanding Tendencies and Gradients
17:16 • 22min
Molar Antagonisms and Molecular Proliferation
38:58 • 8min
Exploring Political Representation and the Revolutionary Subject
46:34 • 2min
Rethinking Production in the Women's Movement
48:31 • 9min
Exploring Negri's Ideas on the North-South Axis and Revolutionary Politics
57:07 • 2min
The Refusal of Work and Alternative Forms of Organization
59:22 • 4min