Pracownia Komunikacji Naukowej zaprasza na dwudniowy cykl wydarzeń.

Wykład otwarty
13 listopada 2024, godz. 16:00-18.00
Międzychodzka 5, pok. 406

Elia Alberici (Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy)

Ripping a Lighting with Bare Hands. On Militancy
The figure of the militant is untimely, since he or she is placed within, against and beyond history. Although the militant is a subject wholly internal to the historical reality of capital, as well as internal to the class composition, he or she consciously transcends and renounces being an integral part of this picture, precisely because the militant wants to organise the destruction of this reality. Nevertheless, we cannot think of militancy as a transhistorical matter, immune to the changes – structural or not – that capital accumulation brings every day. The only way to overcome this contradiction is to accept it, by embracing its ambiguities and its spurious elements. In order to approach this complex topic, we will interrogate certain moments of the radical intellectual history in order to gain suggestions, reflections and points of view. With Marx we will discuss how class can only be defined politically, in other words, how class does not exist outside the class struggle. Lenin will help us to understand the relationship between spontaneity and organisation, revealing the false dichotomy of this pair. Finally, Italian operaismo will show how militancy cannot be understood without reflecting on the methods of class composition and of co-research. Far from indulging in a historiographical and philological approach, we will interrogate these classical theories with our backs to the future. Our aim is to discuss how to think about the figure of the militant today: with both an ancient heart and a timely mind.

Elia Alberici is a militant based in Bologna. He got a Master’s Degree in History at the University of Bologna, writing a dissertation on Italian Operaismo in the Sixties. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Urbino (Italy), where he is researching into the topics of universality and race liberation. He is part of the collective ‘Officine della formazione’ (Workshops of Education).

LEKTURA UZUPEŁNIAJĄCA:
Można zgłosić się na adres: krysszad@amu.edu.pl po włoski oryginał wskazanych fragmentów lub polski (automatyczny) przekład.
Gigi Roggero (2016), Elogio della militanza. Note su soggettività e composizione di classe. Roma: Derive Approdi, ss. 7-16; 92-124; 187-212.

Seminarium lekturowe
14 listopada 2024, godz. 10.00-16.30
Liczba miejsc ograniczona (zostały 4 wolne), uczestnictwo wyłącznie na podstawie potwierdzonego zgłoszenia (proszę pisemnie przedstawić motywację do uczestnictwa w seminarium) na adres: krysszad@amu.edu.pl do 10 listopada 2024. Zaakceptowanym osobą uczestniczącym zostaną przesłane lektury.

SEMINAR PLAN

Part 1 – 10.00 – 11.30
10.00 – Krystian Szadkowski – Introduction
10.10 – Elia Alberici – Problem statement
10.30 – Krystian Szadkowski – Response
10.35 – Jakub Krzeski – Response
10.40 – Elia Alberici – Rejoinder
11.00 – Discussion

Part 2 – 11.30-13.00
Readings seminar and discussion. Lead: Jakub Krzeski
K. Marx (1992). Capital.Volume 1. Penguin: London, pp. 283-292 [Chapter 7.1, The Labour Process].

Break – 13.00-13.30

Part 3 – 13.30-15.00
Readings seminar and discussion. Lead: Krystian Szadkowski
G. Lukacs (1978). The Ontology of Social Being. Marx Basic Ontological Principles. Merlin Press: London, pp. 1-68. [Chapters 1 & 2, Methodological Preliminaries; The Critique of Political Economy]

Part 4 – 15.00-16.30
Readings seminar and discussion. Lead: Elia Alberici
A. Negri (2009). Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State. University of Minnesota Press, pp. 251-292. [Fragments from Chapter 5: Constituent Power in Revolutionary Materialism & Lenin and the Soviets: The Institutional Compromise]

Abstract of the „Problem statement”
Ontologies of Labour and Universality
My doctoral project explores the philosophical problem of universality from a Marxian perspective. Within the Marxian field it seems easy to understand in which sense capital constitutes a universality. Indeed, different strategies are possible. One can, for example, reflect on the relations between capital and the universalising project of modernity; on the idea of commodity fetishism as an attempt to establish a universal form of social relations; or, finally, on the concept of capital as a totality. On the contrary, it is much more difficult to present an argument that seeks to deprive capital of the exclusivity of this totalising tendency. One area of literature that has thought along these lines can be found in the theories of the ontology of labour, proposed by authors such as György Lukács or Antonio Negri. Living labour is understood as an ontological category that is prior to capital: it consists of relations between human beings and the external reality. Capital can valorise this potentia only ex post and not without residues. Labour is, thus, conceived as an aleatory gesture of creativity and freedom. From this point of view, it is possible to construct an argument that reflects on the universality of labour. In particular, following Negri’s reflection in Insurgencies, I am interested in understanding how the principle of living labour, understood ontologically, can become a principle of constituent power. In other words, how an ontological understanding of labour can provide the basis for thinking of labour as a teleological process, and thus capable of giving form to a political project.