The winter is over : writings on transformation denied, 1989--1995 / Antonio Negri ; edited by Giuseppe Caccia ; introduction by Jason E. Smith ; translated by Isabella Bertoletti, James Cascaito, and Andrea Casson.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-311).
Contents:
Part 1: Inquiry workshop. New social movements and political realignments ; Worker restructurings in Europe ; Social struggles in a systemic setting ; Peugeot :Restructured factory and production of subjectivity ; Toyotaism: The Japanese model and the social worker ; Productive networks and territories: The case of the Italian northeast. -- Part 2 :The decline of "Weak thought". What has the intellectual become? ; Chronicle of a transition ; "Come back, sweet terrible ghost": Nietzsche today ; More Marx? ; Compassion, terror and general intellect ; The infinite nature of communication/The finite nature of desire ; Understanding being through language ; The sense of a distinction: The right, the let and bobbio ; Deleuze and Guattari: A philosophy for the 21st century ; Kaosmos. -- Part 3: From the end of really-existing socialism to the Gulf War. Rereading Polybius and Machiavelli: With regard to "Glasnost" ; Euro Disney and Tiananmen ; Eastern Europe between capitalist restoration and constituent power ; We are all Berliners ; On the difference between socialism and communism ; The consequences of the "End of history" ; The philosophical consequences of the Gulf War ; War, communication and democracy ; For a Europe from the Atlantic to the Ural Mountains ; Nations, racisms and new universality ; John Paul II's fifth international ; The USA and Europe after the Gulf War and the Los Angeles Riots. -- Part 4: Chronicles of the second republic. The constituent republic ; Legal-illegal: Corruption, judicial power and political power ; Subversion from above: Notes on bribesville ; Laboratory Italy (September 1993) ; Techniques for a Coup d'État (November 1993) ; Cloning (December 1993) ; The Italian "Revolution" and the"Devolution" of the left ; Italy, the nineties: Crisis and renewal of a constitutional model.
Summary:
"In late 1995, in opposition to the conservative agenda of Jacques Chirac and his prime minister Alain Juppé and their proposed widespread welfare cuts, French students rose up against their government; public sector workers, together with all the major trade unions, went on strike. When railway workers and Paris Metro personnel joined in the protests, France's public transportation system came to a halt. These extensive social upheavals, the likes of which had not been seen in France since 1968, found widespread public support and fuelled the creation of many political organizations. Chirac backed down from restructuring the public retirement system. Antonio Negri's The Winter is Over comes out of the glimmer of optimism created by the events of 1995, when the long, cold season of neoliberalism, Thatcherism, Reaganomics, reaction, and counterrevolution appeared to have run its course. Published in Italian in 1996, The Winter is Over brings together a series of articles, speeches, and other documents written by Negri between 1989 and 1995 at the threshold of this thaw. It offers a revealing and wide-reaching account of those years of change and brink-of-change, focusing on such topics as the networks of social production, the decline of "limp thought," the end of applied socialism, the Gulf War, and, finally, Italy's transition to its so-called "Second Republic," as seen by an exile"--Publisher's website.
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