Living labour and social movements : a dialogue with Antonio Negri
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Anthropological theory, 2017, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 518-525
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CHIRONI, Daniela, TOMASELLO, Federico, NEGRI, Antonio, Living labour and social movements : a dialogue with Antonio Negri, Anthropological theory, 2017, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 518-525 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/59790
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In this interview, Antonio Negri first focuses on the possibility of defining the concept of social movement'. By mobilizing a spectrum of references that goes from Carl Schmitt to the Weberian sociology of religion, he insists on the necessity, not to sociologically crystallize the concept, but, instead, to think about it in a historical manner. Social movements would then be attempts at activating liberation processes', which nowadays can only be thought of within the conditions of financial capitalism. Negri then proceeds to examine the relation between the concept of social movement and those of class and class struggle: he suggests a dynamic and relational interpretation of the Marxian concept of living labour' as a bridge between a class analysis of society and the study of social movements, movements which in the contemporary landscape are ready to take an entrepreneurial' connotation. The political and intellectual experience of Italian Workerism in the 1960s is then recalled as a fertile example of the application of this method of social analysis, but also as an exemplification of the principle of unrepeatability' of social movements. The author finally claims to be a theorist of immaterial labour' in order to then develop a radical critique of the idea of so-called post-materialist' movements and of the effects that such a notion has had on the sociology of social movements.
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First Published: 22 December 2017