Post-operaist readings of Marxian ‘Fragment on Machines” in the light of their critiques. Cover Image

Postoperaistyczne lektury Marksowskiego Fragmentu o maszynach w świetle krytyki
Post-operaist readings of Marxian ‘Fragment on Machines” in the light of their critiques.

Author(s): Krystian Szadkowski
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: post-operaism; Marx; critique of political economy; Negri; Virno; Vercellone

Summary/Abstract: Text undertakes a much needed contextual and critical reading of Marxian „Fragment on Machines” from the Grundrisse. The crucial thesis states that despite the seeming crisis of the post-operaist Marxism, theoretical intuitions formulated by thinkers like Negri, Virno, Vercellone are still valid. Three various but interrelated types of post-operaist reading are presented here in detail to support the argument: the political, the philosophical and the historico-economical. In the last part of the paper they are confronted with three main lines of critique of the post-operaist readings: the philological, the political-economic and the „political”. Through such a confrontation some of the arguments are refuted and reevaluated.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 09
  • Page Count: 1
  • Language: Polish