New Lines of Alliance, New Spaces of Liberty

The project: to rescue communism from its own disrepute. Once invoked as the liberation of work through mankind s collective creation, communism has instead stifled humanity. We who see in communism the liberation of both collective and individual possibilities must reverse that regimentation of thought and desire which terminates the individual.... Thus begins the extraordinary collaboration between F?©lix Guattari and Antonio Negri, written at dawn of the 1980s, in the wake of the crushing of the autonomous movements of the previous decade. Setting out Guattari and Negri diagnose with incisive prescience transformations of the global economy and theorize new forms of alliance and organization: mutant machines of subjectivation and social movement. Prefiguring his collaboration with Michael Hardt, Negri and Guattari enact a singular hybridization of political and philosophical traditions, brining together psychiatry, political analysis, semiotics, aesthetics, and philosophy. Against the workings of an increasingly integrated world capitalism, they raise the banners of singularity, autonomy, and freedom to search out new routes for subversion. This newly expanded edition includes previously untranslated materials and a new introduction by Matteo Mandarini. "The project: to rescue 'communism' from its own disrepute. Once invoked as the liberation of work through mankind's collective creation, communism has instead stifled humanity. We who see in communism the liberation of both collective and individual possibilities must reverse that regimentation of thought and desire which terminates the individual...." Thus begins the extraordinary collaboration between Felix Guattari and Antonio Negri, written at dawn of the 1980s, in the wake of the crushing of the autonomous movements of the previous decade. Setting out Guattari and Negri diagnose with incisive prescience transformations of the global economy and theorize new forms of alliance and organization: mutant machines of subjectivation and social movement. Prefiguring his collaboration with Michael Hardt, Negri and Guattari enact a singular hybridization of political and philosophical traditions, brining together psychiatry, political analysis, semiotics, aesthetics, and philosophy. Against the workings of an increasingly integrated world capitalism, they raise the banners of singularity, autonomy, and freedom to search out new routes for subversion. This newly expanded edition includes previously untranslated materials and a new introduction by Matteo Mandarini. Table of Contents......Page 6 Introduction: Organising Communism - Matteo Mandarini......Page 8 1. Communists Like Us......Page 27 2. THE REVOLUTION BEGAN IN 1968......Page 34 3. THE REACTION OF THE 1970S: NO FUTURE......Page 49 4. THE REVOLUTION CONTINUES......Page 64 5. THE NEW ALLIANCE......Page 78 6. THINK AND LIVE IN ANOTHER WAY......Page 93 POSTSCRIPT, 1990 - ANTONIO NEGRI......Page 103 APPPENDIX ONE THE NEW SPACES OF FREEDOM - FÉLIX GUATTARI......Page 117 APPPENDIX TWO ARCHEOLOGICAL LETTER.OCTOBER 1984 - ANTONIO NEGRI......Page 129 " This newly expanded edition includes previously untranslated materials and a new introduction by Matteo Mandarini. " -- The last page of cover