Biopolitics and Social Change in Italy : From Gramsci to Pasolini to Negri

By placing the social dimension of labour at the base of the discourse of life, this book engages with the work of key intellectual figures and reconstructs a critical genealogy of the notion of biopolitics from the point of view of twentieth and twenty-first century Italy. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction: The Biopolitical and Its Biopolitics....Pages 1-10 Factory Councils, Fordism, and Gramsci: A Workers’ Biopolitics and Its Demise....Pages 11-43 The Personal Is (Bio)Political! Italian Marxist Neo-feminism and Its Historical Trajectory....Pages 45-71 Pasolini and the Politics of Life of Neocapitalism....Pages 73-101 1968–1977: The Movement and Its Biopolitical Élan....Pages 103-135 A Biopolitical Multitude and Its Planet: Antonio Negri and Paolo Virno....Pages 137-172 Back Matter....Pages 173-198 The study of how life can be controlled, supported, and manipulated has become the most urgent scientific and political task of our society. By placing the social dimension of labor at the base of the discourse of life, this book engages with the work of key intellectual figures including Gramsci, Pasolini, the neo-feminist militants of Lotta Femminista, Negri, and Virno, and reconstructs a critical genealogy of the notion of biopolitics from the point of view of twentieth and twenty-first century Italy