a concept developed by Foucault – ‘biopower’ – which refers to the government of populations and bodies that Foucault believed had emerged in the nineteenth century
Operaismo means ‘workerism’. In countries like France the term refers to the (over)valuation – not free of anti-intellectualism – of the industrial working class, its culture and organizations. In Italy its meaning is the converse.
Operaismo is a variegated tendency, the positions of whose main representatives have developed considerably over the years
The question of who is a Marxist today is highly complex. It always has been, because this current has always been plural. [...] Moreover, all contemporary critical theories are, in a sense, ‘post-Marxist’. Marxism was so dominant in the twentieth century that no theory escaped its influence.
