Semiotext(e) is reissuing
in book form its legendary magazine issue Autonomia: Post-Political
Politics, originally published in New York in 1980. Edited
by Sylvère Lotringer and Christian Marazzi with
the direct participation of the main leaders and theorists
of the Autonomist movement (including Antonio Negri, Mario
Tronti, Franco Piperno, Oreste Scalzone, Paolo Virno, Sergio
Bologna, and Franco Berardi), this volume is the only first-hand
document and contemporaneous analysis that exists of the
most innovative post-'68 radical movement in the West.
The movement itself was broken when Autonomia members were
falsely accused of (and prosecuted for) being the intellectual
masterminds of the Red Brigades; but even after the end
of Autonomia, this book remains a crucial testimony of
the way this creative, futuristic, neo-anarchistic, postideological,
and nonrepresentative political movement of young workers
and intellectuals anticipated issues that are now confronting
us in the wake of Empire. In the next two years, Semiotext(e)
will publish eight books by such Italian "Post-Fordist" intellectuals
as Antonio Negri, Christian Marazzi, Paolo Virno, and Bifo,
as they update the theories of Autonomia for the new century. |