The Production of Living Knowledge

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"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 Commonwealth