
The Production of Living Knowledge
The Crisis of the University and the Transformation of Labor in Europe and North America
Gigi Roggero(Author)
Temple University Press,U.S.
Will be published approx. on 19. August 2011
Book
Hardback
214 pages
978-1-4399-0573-9 (ISBN)
Description
How universities in Europe and North America are run like factories and how this affects academic workers
Reviews / Votes
"An internationalist, with the future in his bones and armed with history's lessons about how to deflect its worst consequences, Roggero is the best representative of a new kind of scholar. His landmark analysis of the contemporary landscape of labor and knowledge could not be more timely or on target. Required reading for all who aspire to self-education." -Andrew Ross, author of Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times "How has knowledge become living labor? How has the passage through the Marxian 'general intellect'-seized from dead labor-become the primary terrain of struggle between capital and labor power? Within the crisis of the law of value, what is the significance of capitalist violence directed toward the measure of labor? Is the university a space for the development of the measure of social exploitation? Can the antagonistic movements of knowledge as living labor, inside and outside the university, in social and technological cooperation, be seen as signs and techniques of liberation from capitalist domination? Gigi Roggero's The Production of Living Knowledgebegins to answer these and many other questions. The road is long, but through the darkness of night can be discerned burning lights." -Antonio Negri, coauthor of Empire and CommonwealthMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Philadelphia PA
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4399-0573-9 (9781439905739)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Gigi Roggero is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Politics, Institutions, and History at the University of Bologna. He is a member of the editorial board of WorkingUSA, and the collectives Edu-factory and Uninomade and a regular contributor to Il Manifesto. He is the author of Intelligenze fuggitive: Movimenti contro l'universitA-azienda , and co-author (with Guido Borio and Francesca Pozzi) ofFuturo anteriore: Dai "Quaderni Rossi" ai movimenti globali: Ricchezze e limiti dell'operaismo italiano.
Content
Translator's Foreword: Cognitive Capitalism and the University, by Enda Brophy Acknowledgments Introduction: Living on the Borders 1. The Future Is Archaic 2. Coordinates of Capitalist Transition 3. Corporatization of the University: Rhetoric, Trends, Actuality 4. The Production of Living Knowledge 5. Borders and Lines of Flight: The Institutions of the Common 6: Brief Observations on Method: The Production of Knowledge and Conricerca Conclusions: The Time of the Common Notes Index