In The Weight of the Printed Word, Steve Wright explores the creation and use of documents as a key dimension in the activities of Italian workerists during the 1960s and 1970s. From leaflets and newspapers to books, internal documents and workers' enquiries; the operaisti deployed a wide variety of printed materials in their efforts to organise among new subjectivities of mass rebellion.
As Wright demonstrates, the practice of working with print was a central part of what it meant to be a workerist or autonomist militant during these years: one that throws light both on the meaning of political engagement, as well as the challenges posed by the use of technologies of communication and by emergent social subjects.
| ISBN: | 9781642597806 |
| Publication date: | 6th September 2022 |
| Author: | Steve Wright |
| Publisher: | Haymarket Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 584 pages |
| Series: | Historical Materialism |
| Genres: |
Media studies Political ideologies and movements Industrial relations, occupational health and safety Politics and government |