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In the interests of expanding the theoretical scope of debates around the themes work, production, and the common, the colloquium seeks to bring different positions and approaches to these issues into conversation.
'Our provocation' is a polemical statement to provoke responses in these debates.
View the programme here.
Franco Barchiesi, “Against Job Creation. Precarious Work as a Challenge to Employment-Centered Normativity in Postcolonial Africa”
Below is the link to the paper I am presenting at the Global Labour University conference at Wits University (Johannesburg), September 28 – 30. It develops many of the themes discussed at the July workshop of the “Tribe of Moles”. It argues in particular against the policy obsession with “jobs” as a response to the … Read more
“Imagining the Patriotic Worker: The Idea of ‘Decent Work’ in the ANC’s Political Discourse”
Below is the link to a paper I’ve just written for the forthcoming conference on “100 Years of the ANC”, to be held in Joburg. It’s called “Imagining the Patriotic Worker: The Idea of ‘Decent Work’ in the ANC’s Political Discourse”. It discusses how normative ideas of employment as a conduit to rights and citizenship … Read more
An Operation Litter
Militants ‘rubbish’ Wits More here
“The Common in Revolt”, by Judith Revel and Antonio Negri
What follows is a quick, unrevised translation I did of a piece I’ve just noticed, in Italian, on the UniNomade website. I hope it’ll be of interest as it also speaks to themese discussed in our July 17 colloquium at Khanya College. Franco —- From UniNomade 2.0 (uninomade.org), August 13, 2011 THE COMMON IN REVOLT by Judith … Read more
Spinoza Now
Below are details of a book I highly recommend, especially to comrades who, at the “Tribe of Moles” colloquium, expressed interest in a political/methodological engagement with Spinoza-derived ideas of politics of immanence, forms of life, desire, and the relation singularity-multitude. Talking of which, I am reworking my paper for the colloquium, which I hope I … Read more
Notes on Panel 1
We’ve received extremely comprehensive and detailed notes on the first session from one generous participant. Others who participated should feel free to add to these (its on the wiki, which means once you register, you can edit the page yourself. Alternatively, send us your additions and we will publish them there).
Precarious Liberation: Durban and Cape Town Launch
For those who couldn’t get to Johannesburg for the launch of Franco’s book on Sunday, it will be launched in Durban on Wednesday, and in Cape Town next week Tuesday. .
Surveillance Photos
These pictures were posted on the debate list, prefaced by: ”Moles caught on a cheap phone cam as they emerged from a Joburg hole, below…” (Over the next few days i will be posting notes and recordings from the event. If anyone has any more pictures, notes, or reflections on the day, and want us to … Read more
Kropotkin and more
Lucien Van Der Walt has also sent in lots of interesting stuff for our discussion. Enjoy… Harry Cleaver, Kropotkin, Self-Valorisation and the Crisis of Marxism Piotr Kropotkin’s vision a self-managed society, based on an integration of mental and manual labour, town and country, and “agreable work”, in the Conquest of Bread, esp chapters on Ways … Read more
Biopolitics…
Franco Barchiesi has sent in some great stuff. See below… Negri – The Labor of the Multitude and the Fabric of Biopolitics Virno – The Soviets of the Multitude Tronti – Struggles against Labor Lazzarato – Reconstitution of the Social Lazzarato – Capital Labor and Capital Life Fumagalli and Morini – Life Theory of … Read more
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