Stevphen Shukaitis and Joanna Figiel, The Wages of Dreamwork: Class Composition & the Social Reproduction of Cultural Labor (Autonomedia, 2024).
Stevphen Shukaitis, “They Sing the Body Insurgent,” in Commoning with George Caffentzis and Silvia Federici, ed. Camille Barbagallo, Nicholas Barbagallo, and David Harvie (Pluto Press, 2019).
Special thanks to all the comrades who participated in the reading group this spring on Silvia’s dissertation, especially Stephen Dunne and Ravi Shankar Kuamar. Any sensible idea here was probably sparked by something they said.
There is a deep engagement with questions of aesthetics and social reproduction across almost all of Marina’s work, but specifically in her book cowritten with Kerstin Stakemeier, Reproducing Autonomy: Work, Money, Crisis and Contemporary Art (Mute Books, 2016).
Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation (Autonomedia, 2004).
Silvia Federici, Revolution at Point Zero (Common Notions, 2012).
Wages for Housework: The New York Committee 1972–1977: History, Theory, Documents, ed. Silvia Federici and Arlen Austin (Autonomedia, 2019).
Silvia has now agreed to the publication of her dissertation as a book. For more information as this develops go to →.
Silvia Federici, “The Development of Lukács’ Realism” (PhD diss., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1980), 6.
Federici, “The Development of Lukács’ Realism,” 103.
Federici, “The Development of Lukács’ Realism,” 128.
Federici, “The Development of Lukács’ Realism,” 131.
Federici, “The Development of Lukács’ Realism,” 7.
Jacques Rancière, The Philosopher and His Poor (Duke University Press, 2004).
Jacques Rancière, The Nights of Labor: The Workers’ Dream in Nineteenth-century France (Temple University Press, 1994).
Mario Tronti, “Our Operaismo,” New Left Review, no. 73 (January–February 2012): 120.
An interesting and perhaps instructive comparison here would be how Negri in this moment turns to a sustained engagement with Spinoza to work his way through the defeat of the autonomous movements in Italy.
Silvia Federici, “The Development of Lukács’ Realism,” 239.