tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91201542012-01-25T13:59:08.376-08:00Thought and practice. On the domestic front. In English and Italian.bmnnoreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9120154.post-59762835542568396022009-10-08T18:13:00.000-07:002009-10-08T18:45:52.997-07:00

The following piece was published in Re-Public: Re-imagining democracy (also in Greek).There is an apocryphal story about the Chinese word <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:SimSun; panose-1:2 1 6 0 3 1

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The following piece was published in Il Manifesto on 20 July 2008.A un certo punto, durante la sua visita per la Giornata mondiale della gioventù, il pontefice ha indossato un berretto della polizia del Nuovo Galles del Sud, lo stato dell’Australia di cui Sydney è la capitale. La foto-op, scattata durante la benedizione da un poliziotto malato in fase terminale, ha rapidamente invaso i media.

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The following article was published in Il Manifesto on 15 March 2008. It is part of a longer series of articles to remember the events of 1968. Authors are asked to respond to a still image, in this case, the one above.La tattica degli Zengakuren giapponesi nella cornice dei lunghi anni '60 del 900 asiatico. Non solo il riflesso di Parigi o del Vietnam, ma un conflitto interno allo sviluppo che

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‘Non sono qui per ragioni di lavoro, ma devo dire che guadagno molto di più che in Europa’. Lo ammette Bert de Muynck, giovane architetto belga e denizen da quasi un’ anno nel quartiere Gu Xiang Don Chen: è uno degli organizzatori, insieme al teorico dei media australiano Ned Rossiter e alla giovane architetta di Lisbona Mónica Carriço, del Mobile Research Laboratory sulle Industrie Creative a

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http://www.metamute.org/en/The-Magic-of-Debt-or-Amortise-ThisFor Nietzsche, debt was linked to the problem of promising and forgetting. It would be a mistake to underestimate the importance of the etymological play that underlies his association of debts (Schulden) with guilt (Schuld). As is well known, the Second Essay of On the Genealogy of Morals argues that the feeling of guilt, of personal

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The following is a transcript of a talk I did at LAb0 (Laboratory for Architecture and Politics) on 10 May. The panel was entitled 'Mutations of the University' and the other participants were Gigi Roggero and David Fanfani. Video and audio are available on the LAb0 site. The talk took place in the former abattoir (pictured above) in the Roman quartiere of Testaccio. It was strangely wonderful to

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I conducted the following interview with Ranabir Samaddar of the Calcutta Research Group at the Global Meeting in Venice at the end of March 2007. The interview, which was transcribed and translated by Gigi Roggero, was published in Il Manifesto, on 23 May. The conversation with Ranabir is also available as a video download on the edu-factory site, along with two other interviews with Wang Hui of

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The following interview with Aihwa Ong and review of her book Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty were published in Il Manifesto on 13 March 2007.Il neoliberismo è una tecnologia di governo che dall'economia è stata poi applicata alla politica, modellando in senso mercantile i concetti di sovranità e cittadinanza. Un'intervista con Aihwa Ong.Brett NeilsonGigi

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....Verso la manifestazione nazionale del 3 Marzo a Bolognamartedi 27 febbraio ore 10DIBATTITO + VIDEO SMONTAGGIO CPT Via MatteiRete per l'autoformazione, Aula2 e Ya Basta Moltitudia presentano "CHIUDERE I CPT SE NON ORA QUANDO?"Aula2occupata_Lettere la sapienzaProgramCall

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The following is notice for a debate I will participate in at ESC Atelier Occupato on 18 January 2007.La critica postcoloniale: modernità, parzialità e nuovo universalismoChe cosa è la critica postcoloniale? E soprattutto cosa ci dicono della contemporaneità gli studi postcoloniali? Rispondere a queste domande vuol dire sottrarre un proficuo campo di analisi critica sul presente al rischio di

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The following interview with Homi Bhabha, which I conducted with Ida Dominijanni, was published in Il Manifesto on 12 December 2006.Il multiculturalismo di ascendenza liberale tratta le identità come stati sovrani. E questo accade quando la globalizzazione erode la sovranità Trasmissione culturale, eredità globale, interlocuzione, parzialità, ibridazione. La «politica della morte» nell'era del

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The following review of the MyCreativity conference (Amsterdam, 16-18 November 2006) was published in Il Manifesto on 26 November 2006.«MyCreativity». Ad Amsterdam studiosi, designer e informatici discutono di «creativity industry». Dalla precarietà alle esperienze di produzione alternativa, prove tecniche di una politica reticolare.«Siamo tutti nati originali, ma la maggioranza di noi muore come

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The following article was published in Il Manifesto on 12 November 2006 as part of a special section entitled In the shadow of the factory. The special section was to mark the 40th anniversary of the publication of Mario Tronti's Operai e capitale, the so-called bible of operaismo, as well as the republication of this text by DeriveApprodi. The other contributions by Mario Tronti/Ida Dominijanni,

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This article was published in Il Manifesto on 22 October 2006.Gramsci torna in Italia grazie alla reinterpretazione della sua opera compiuta dai teorici critici degli «studi culturali». Una lezione a Bologna della filosofa di origine indiana Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakCosa rappresenta l'eredità di Antonio Gramsci per il pensiero politico del presente? Forse non è esagerato dire che oggi la lettura

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I decided to read Roberto Esposito’s Categorie dell’ impolitico (1988) when a friend mentioned at a dinner in Rome that she thought it was his most impressive book. In its final pages, this text already reaches toward the theme of community that, from the middle of 1990s, would link Esposito’s thought to the work of Jean-Luc Nancy and inspire the composition of three texts, Communitas (1998),

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The following article was published in Il Manifesto on 10 September 2006.Ground Zero, il monumento impossibileSul confine fra politica e violenza, lingua e guerra. La natura di un evento senza sistemazione in un memorialeA cinque anni dall'11 settembre, Ground Zero non ha un monumento commemorativo permanente. Certo, hanno fatto molto chiasso il progetto di Libeskind, l'avvio dei lavori per la

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Opening sentences from Gunther Anders, Die Anitquiertheit des Menschen Band II. Uber die Zerstorung des Lebens im Zeitalter der dritten industriellen Revolution:To change the world is not enough. We do that anyway. And, in large part, this change happens even without our collaboration. Our task is also to interpret. And this, precisely, to change the change. So that the world does not continue to

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Sarajevo 1992The following article was published in Il Manifesto on 28 December 2005. The Italian version is available here: http://www.ilmanifesto.it/g8/dopogenova/43b2bb33bd443.htmlThere are those who declared, at the height of the revolts in the French banlieues, that the time had come to recognise that the Anglosaxon model of multiculturalism has delivered greater peace and stability than the

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The following review of the ‘Capturing the Moving Minds’ conference was published in Il Manifesto on 2 October 2005. The Italian version is available at:http://www.ilmanifesto.it/g8/dopogenova/43415e1b701c9.htmlI append an English version below.A window on the worldTo move without cause, to organise without ends, to flee the war against intellect: these were the imperatives that animated the

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The site for Centro per la Riforma dello Stato has materials from a seminar entitled Il mestiere delle armi, la pace di domani with interventions from Tronti, Negri, Dal Lago, Hardt, Guareschi, and others. Some of this material was published earlier in Posse and Conflitti globali.The piece by Tronti revisits Raymond Aron's 1962 text Paix et guerre entre les nations, as does this text by Eric

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So Ratzinger is on his way to Sydney for World Youth Day in 2008.May I welcome him with this beautiful quote from Cure Meslier, a sacreligious priest who believed in neither god nor the soul:L'humanite ne sera heureuse que lorsque le dernier roi sera etrangle aver les boyaux du dernier prete.(Humanity will only be happy when the last king is strangled with the intestines of the last priest).More

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I was moved to re-read Toqueville’s Democracy in America by the following comments in a talk by Mario Tronti at the Università Nomade seminar on Democracy and War, January 2005:Tutta la storia recente dopo l’ultimo novecento, dopo gli anni settanta, gli anni appunto poi del movimento ma gli anni del feminismo, tutta la storia che è seguita questo come risposta si può leggere in una chiave di

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A new 28 page book by Toni Negri.Chi furono in Italia i filosofi del novecento? Negri dà una risposta che susciterà molto stupore, molto scalpore e molto furore. Per Negri, spazzati via con mano impaziente quei pensatori che sono il nostro abituale riferimento, i veri filosofi sono invece coloro che hanno inventato e lavorato su un concetto: il concetto di differenza. “Il fatto è,” dice Negri, “

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Rough translation of an interview with Giorgio Agamben by Gianluca Saccohttp://rivista.ssef.it/site.php?page=20040308184630627&edition=2005-05-01At a recent confernce on Walter Benjamin held in Rome at the end of last year Giorgio Agamben presented a paper that anticipates some results of his current research on ‘economic theology’. We interviewed him about this topic and its possible connections

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The bureaucracy is the imaginary state alongside the real state; it is the spiritualism of the state. As a result everything has a double meaning, one real and one bureaucratic, just as knowledge is double, one real and one bureaucratic (and the same with the will). A real thing, however, is treated according to its bureaucratic essence, according to its otherworldly, spiritual essence. The

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