Pier Vittorio Aureli: The Project of Autonomy: Politics and Architecture Within and Against Capitalism (2008)

“The Project of Autonomy radically rediscusses the concept of autonomy in politics and architecture by tracing a concise and polemical argument about its history in Italy in the 1960s and early 1970s. Architect and educator Pier Vittorio Aureli analyzes the position of the Operaism movement, formed by a group of intellectuals that produced a powerful and rigorous critique of capitalism and its intersections with two of the most radical architectural-urban theories of the day: Aldo Rossi’s redefinition of the architecture of the city and Archizoom’s No-stop City. Readers are introduced to major figures like Mario Tronti and Raniero Panzieri who have previously been little known in the English-speaking world, especially in an architectural context, and to the political motivations behind the theories of Rossi and Archizoom. The book draws on significant new source material, including recent interviews by the author and untranslated documents.”

Publisher Princeton Architectural Press, 2008
Volume 4 of Buell Center/FORuM Project publication
ISBN 1568987943, 9781568987941
88 pages

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Rethinking Marxism 22-3: Special Issue on the Common and the Forms of the Commune (2010)

“Operating within and beyond each of the offerings contained in the pages [of this special issue] is a profound play on precisely the question posed: What is the operative notion of the common today? Even the singularity of that question’s basic assumption is challenged by the scope of these inquiries for, indeed, a paradox begins to emerge when we consider them as a collection, one might even say as a common production of knowledge: recognition that the very foundation of a concept of the common—its particularity—may well be articulated in a multiplicity of ways. That is to say, can postmodernity—or whatever we wish to designate our present condition—tolerate a single “operative notion” of the common, or does it rather demand a constellation of understandings that contribute simultaneously to our experience of the common and to its neoliberal other, the promotion of individuation?” (from Introduction)

Contributions by Anna Curcio & Ceren Özselçuk, Jack Amariglio, Michael Hardt, Gigi Roggero, Aras Özgün, 16beaver group, Antonio Callari & David F. Ruccio, Deborah Jenson, Federico Luisetti, S. Charusheela, Kenneth Surin, Kathi Weeks, Anna Curcio, Yahya M. Madra & Ceren Özselçuk, Alvaro Reyes.

With Introduction by Joseph Childers
Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture & Society Volume 22 Issue 3
ISSN: 0893-5696

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Benjamin Noys (ed.): Communization and its Discontents: Contestation, Critique, and Contemporary Struggles (2011)

“Can we find alternatives to the failed radical projects of the twentieth century? What are the possible forms of struggle today? How do we fight back against the misery of our crisis-ridden present?

‘Communization’ is the spectre of the immediate struggle to abolish capitalism and the state, which haunts Europe, Northern California and wherever the real abstractions of value that shape our lives are contested. Evolving on the terrain of capitalism new practices of the ‘human strike’, autonomous communes, occupation and insurrection have attacked the alienations of our times. These signs of resistance are scattered and have yet to coalesce, and their future is deliberately precarious and insecure.

Bringing together voices from inside and outside of these currents Communization and Its Discontents treats communization as a problem to be explored rather than a solution. Taking in the new theorizations of communization proposed by Tiqqun and The Invisible Committee, Théorie Communiste, post-autonomists, and others, it offers critical reflections on the possibilities and the limits of these contemporary forms, strategies, and tactics of struggle.”

Contributors: Jasper Bernes, John Cunningham, Endnotes, Alexander R. Galloway, Maya Andrea Gonzalez, Anthony Iles, Leon de Mattis, Nicole Pepperell, Théorie Communiste, Alberto Toscano, Marina Vishmidt, and Evan Calder Williams.

Publisher Minor Compositions, 30 November 2011
ISBN 9781570272318
280 pages

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