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From the Factory to the Metropolis - Essays Volume 2 (Paperback, Volume 2)
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From the Factory to the Metropolis - Essays Volume 2 (Paperback, Volume 2)
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This second volume of a new three-part series of Antonio Negri s
work is focussed on the consequences of the rapid process of
deindustrialisation that has occurred across the West in recent
years. In this volume Negri investigates exactly what happens when
the class subjects of industrial capitalism are demobilised and the
factories close. Evidently capital continues to make profit, but
how and where? According to Negri, the creation of value extends
beyond the factory walls to embrace the whole of society; the mass
worker of industrialism gives way to the socialised worker (operaio
sociale) and the terrain of exploitation now becomes the whole of
human life. In postmodernity, the metropolis becomes the privileged
arena of value extraction. We must therefore understand the global
city, with its stratifications, its enclosures and its resistances.
Old categories of the private and the public are inadequate to
describe the new matrix of production, which is characterised
rather by the common , the productive space of cognitive and
immaterial labour. Today s metropolis can be defined as a space of
antagonisms between forms of life produced, on the one hand, by
finance capital (the capital that operates around rents), and on
the other by the cognitive proletariat . The central question is
then how the common of the latter can be mobilised for the
destruction of capitalism. In an analysis that runs from the
Italian workerism (operaismo) of the 1970s to the present day, From
the Factory to the Metropolis offers readers valuable insight into
the far-reaching impact of deindustrialisation, presenting both the
challenges and opportunities. It will appeal to the many interested
in the continuing development of Negri s project and to anyone
interested in radical politics today.
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