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<p><b>Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 11: Italian Operaismo with
Gigi Roggero</b><br>
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This episode of the Minor Compositions podcast is recorded as part
of the Ultradependent Public School exhibition at BAK
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bakonline.org/program-item/ultradependent-public-school-2/">https://www.bakonline.org/program-item/ultradependent-public-school-2/</a>)<br>
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For this episode we are talking with Gigi Roggero about his book <i>Italian
Operaismo: Genealogy, History, Method</i>. In this conversation
we cover a range of topics including the birth and development of
operaismo as a political tendency, the concepts of class
composition and political formation, and rethinking how we
approach and re-activate radical histories in the present.<br>
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“Italian Operaismo provides a clear overview of the central
moments in that tendency's development: from the Italian labor
movement's crisis of direction in the 1950s, the encounter with
the “new forces” within the working class at FIAT and elsewhere in
the early 1960s, and the political journals Quaderni rossi and
Classe operaia, to the experience of Potere Operaio and other
organizations a decade later. Roggero provides a rereading of
operaismo that is both salutary and provocative, one that stresses
above all the role within it of subjectivity and political
engagement, demonstrating the continued relevance of its
subversive method as a tool for reworking the categories of
radical and revolutionary thought.<br>
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Opening / outro music: The Potere Operaio Anthem, as sung by
Oreste Scalzone and Comrades<br>
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