The Weight of the Printed Word

Text, Context and Militancy in Operaismo

Bibliographic Data

ID23554387
AuthorsSteve Wright (0000-0003-3928-420X)
Year2021
Publication date2021-08-16
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Weight of the Printed Word (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004471542
OpenAlexW3165714706
ISBN9789004471542
LanguageEN
Citations received7

In The Weight of the Printed Word, Steve Wright explores the creation and use of documents as a key dimension in the activities of the Italian workerists during the 1960s and 1970s. From leaflets and newspapers to books, internal documents and workers' enquiries; the operaisti deployed a wide variety of printed materials in their efforts to organise amongst new subjectivities of mass rebellion. As Wright demonstrates, the practice of working with print was a central part of what it meant to be a workerist or autonomist militant during these years: one that throws light both on the meaning of political engagement, as well as the challenges posed by the use of technologies of communication and by emergent social subjects.

Art history · Dimension (graph theory) · Meaning (existential) · Media studies · Militant · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics) · Wright · Artificial Intelligence · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Computer Science · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Psychology

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