The Weight of the Printed Word: Text, Context and Militancy in Operaismo

By Steve Wright

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004471537
• ISBN13: 9789004471535
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 612 Pages