| The Weight of the Printed Word: Text, Context and Militancy in Operaismo Contributor(s): Wright, Steve (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004471537 ISBN-13: 9789004471535 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $240.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2021 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - Business & Economics | Labor - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Physical Information: 612 pages |
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| Publisher Description: In The Weight of the Printed Word, Steve Wright explores the creation and use of documents as a key dimension in the activities of the Italian workerists during the 1960s and 1970s. From leaflets and newspapers to books, internal documents and workers' enquiries; the operaisti deployed a wide variety of printed materials in their efforts to organise amongst new subjectivities of mass rebellion. As Wright demonstrates, the practice of working with print was a central part of what it meant to be a workerist or autonomist militant during these years: one that throws light both on the meaning of political engagement, as well as the challenges posed by the use of technologies of communication and by emergent social subjects. |
