Weight of the Printed Word

Text, Context and Militancy in Operaismo

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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In The Weight of the Printed Word, Steve Wright explores the creation and use of documents as a key dimension in the activities of Italian workerists during the 1960s and 1970s. From leaflets and newspapers to books, internal documents and workers' enquiries; the operaisti deployed a wide variety of printed materials in their efforts to organise among new subjectivities of mass rebellion.As Wright demonstrates, the practice of working with print was a central part of what it meant to be a workerist or autonomist militant during these years: one that throws light both on the meaning of political engagement, as well as the challenges posed by the use of technologies of communication and by emergent social subjects.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-09-06
Mått152 x 228 x 33 mm
Vikt839 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieHistorical Materialism
Antal sidor584
FörlagHaymarket Books
ISBN9781642597806

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PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Print, Document Work, and Class Politics1 What Are Militants? Ceto politico and ceto operaio2 Texts Have Bodies Too: Towards a Materialist Approach to Document Work and Genre3 Genre, Document Work and Militancy amongst the Operaisti: Some Preliminary ReflectionsPart 1 The Workers’ Enquiry and Co-researchIntroduction to Part 14 The Fiat Workers’ Enquiry of 1960–61: Setting the Scene5 The Fiat Workers’ Enquiry of 1960–61: What Actually Happened?6 The Meaning of the Workers’ Enquiry and Co-research in the Early 1960sPart 2 Essays and Their ContextsIntroduction to Part 27 Cultural Production in the Italy of the ‘Economic Miracle’8 The Essay and Its Discontents9 The Role of the Review in Classical Workerism10 The Book Trade and AcademiaPart 3 Leaflets and SundriesIntroduction to Part 311 The Emergence of the Assemblea operai e studenti12 The Assemblea’s Document Work13 A Short Addendum on PamphletsPart 4 Potere OperaioIntroduction to Part 414 Debating Organisation in Print: Potop 1969–7115 Other Elements of Potere Operaio’s Genre Repertoire16 Two Brief Interludes: ‘In Praise of Illegal Work’ and ‘Sotto la Mole’17 A Gamble That Failed: Potere Operaio del lunedìPart 5 Internal Documents and Perspectives PapersIntroduction to Part 518 Internal Communication Concerning Potere Operaio’s Press and Organisation19 ‘The Measures Taken’20 Position Papers and Discussion DocumentsPart 6 ‘Dites-le avec des pavés!’ Autonomist Newspapers and the Challenge of RadioIntroduction to Part 621 The Best Re(a)d Paper in Autonomia?22 Senza Tregua – A Brief and Unhappy Existence?23 ‘A Paper That Speaks, a Radio That Writes’: I Volsci and the Impact of Radio on the Printed WordPart 7 Journals in a Minor KeyIntroduction to Part 724 ‘The Firebrands of Porto Marghera’25 ‘There Is No Housework in Marx’Conclusion: Print, Document Work, and Class PoliticsGlossaryReferencesIndex