Year of Living Dangerously

Jacopo Galimberti is an art historian and Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at IUAV (Venice).Steve Wright lives in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism and The Weight of the Printed Word. Text, Context and Militancy inOperaismo.

• 1. Introduction - A crisis of political militancy2. Chronology3. The components of the movement4. Media5. Visuals6. The historiography of 19777. Translations8. Conclusion - The joy of living dangerously

At a time when the political imagination is again struggling to find adequate forms, this volume restores 1977 in Italy to its rightful place: not as a footnote between 1968 and the "years of lead," but as a decisive laboratory of antagonistic politics, cultural invention, and collective experimentation whose questions continue to haunt the present. [...]. It is not only a major contribution to the historiography of 1977; it is an invitation to think again, collectively, about what it might mean to live-and struggle-dangerously today