Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi

Where Mario Tronti and Antonio Negri were born in the 30s, Berardi (1948) belongs with Paolo Virno (1952) and Silvia Federici (1942) to a second wave of Italian Marxist thinkers who grew out of the workerist current that struck out on its own path, diverging from the official Gramscian postures of the ...
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Althusserians Anonymous (3)

This post has been revised here: https://publicseminar.org/2016/02/aa/ Let’s look at two famous Althusser essays from the period 1962-1963. Contradiction and Overdetermination’ builds on Althusser’s ‘On the Young Marx’ essay, in deciding against the various Hegelian readings of Marx. Althusser rejects the metaphors of ‘turning Hegel right side-up’, or ‘restoring the rational kernel of ...
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Althusserians Anonymous (3)