{"title":"Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci. Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity, written by F. Antonini","authors":"Sebastián Gómez","doi":"10.1163/26667185-bja10036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26667185-bja10036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":156288,"journal":{"name":"Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116896148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Child Labour and Capitalist Social Engineering in Africa: Divorcing Society from the Means of Production","authors":"I. Abdullah","doi":"10.1163/26667185-bja10039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26667185-bja10039","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article engages with some salient issues relating to child labour in colonial and post-colonial Africa. The central argument hinges on the inconclusive assault of capital on pre-capitalist socio-economic formation in Africa and the urgent intellectual task of liberating the study of child labour from humanitarian, United Nations and non-governmental organisation bureaucrats by privileging the voices of children themselves. The first section deals with historiographical issues, while the second focuses on agriculture, aspects of urban poverty and the emergence of a Lumpenproletariat to examine the transformation from above which took place after the colonial state was created at the turn of the century. The third section addresses two insidious categories of child labour in the post-colony: child trafficking and child soldiers. The final section grapples with the moral economy of child labour by interrogating the complex array of instruments that have emerged on the global scene to address what is today seen as the child labour ‘problem’.","PeriodicalId":156288,"journal":{"name":"Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114908490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gramsci’s Thought, written by E.M.S. Namboodiripad and P. Govinda Pillai","authors":"Subin Dennis","doi":"10.1163/26667185-bja10037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26667185-bja10037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":156288,"journal":{"name":"Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133580473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Antonio Gramsci: Hegemony, Heroism and Domination","authors":"Alberto Simonetti","doi":"10.1163/26667185-bja10034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26667185-bja10034","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The notion of the hero is often accompanied by myth; in Gramsci’s work we see the crushing of this theory because it is tied to a nationalist and, therefore, repressive horizon. In his Prison Notebooks, Gramsci tackles this problem with originality, critically defining the concept of heroism as anti-collective. The power of the struggling community acts incisively if it renounces charismatic leadership. This results in a leaderless collectivity made up of bodies and brains politically in action. The centrality of this aspect that is not dealt with in Gramsci’s work can shed new light on the work of the Sardinian thinker and philosopher, particularly from a contemporary point of view, partly due to the numerous nationalist regressions (the return of racist ideologies and formations in Europe and in the US). Gramsci’s work has an avant-garde meaning even in current events. The collectivity can become that specific universal-singular capable of instituting a real counter-power. The article investigates the rejection of heroism in a transversal reading of Prison Notebooks.","PeriodicalId":156288,"journal":{"name":"Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power","volume":"269 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133958244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Non-Human Labour History? Three Short Questions","authors":"Willem van Schendel","doi":"10.1163/26667185-bja10035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26667185-bja10035","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Multi-species history, environmental humanities, Anthropocene studies and robotics all challenge core notions underlying labour history, such as ‘work’, ‘labour’ and ‘worker’. The note poses three questions about ‘non-human labour’ with a view to strengthening the dialogue between labour historians and practitioners of these new scholarly fields.","PeriodicalId":156288,"journal":{"name":"Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114982205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Surplus Labour in the South at the Current Juncture: A Note","authors":"P. Jha","doi":"10.1163/26667185-bja10038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26667185-bja10038","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The ascendancy of neoliberalism from the 1970s has resulted in a massive crisis of reproduction and expansion of labour reserves globally, in particular in the South, contributing significantly to the current global crisis of capitalism. Contemporary neoliberal capitalism has structurally reconfigured the balance of class power everywhere in favour of capital in general, resulting in substantial deterioration in the world of work and workers’ well-being everywhere. This article explores the evolving dynamics of surplus labour in the South at the current juncture through the lens of the Marxian political economy, in the context of some of the most powerful features underlying the ongoing structural transformations in contemporary world capitalism.","PeriodicalId":156288,"journal":{"name":"Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129518197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marxism, Theory, Conjuncture: Notes on a Possible Contemporary Gramsci–Althusser Dialogue","authors":"Martín Cortés","doi":"10.1163/26667185-01020002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26667185-01020002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article offers various hypotheses regarding the conditions necessary for the reconstruction of a Marxist theory capable of meeting contemporary dilemmas. The central hypothesis posits two beliefs: first, the deep crisis of contemporary capitalism (and perhaps of civilisation) can only be critically addressed by rehabilitating strong theories based on a perspective of totality (this category’s fall from grace, as well as how to rework and revive it, are in part the focus of this text); secondly, while the current crisis might be outwardly novel, the heterogeneous body of texts making up what is called Marxism is already capable of furnishing tools to address the crisis. The starting point is the characterisation of the present conjuncture as anti-theoretical. By this is meant an excessive interest in how reality describes itself and an equally excessive disinterest in the use of strong concepts to think through that reality. Based on this hypothesis, the possibility explored is that a certain interpretation of Antonio Gramsci’s Marxism – excessively historicist and immanentist – has participated, in its own way, in a form of anti-theoricism. In order to propose a theoretical alternative, the article aims to rehabilitate a virtuous relationship between the contributions of Gramsci and those of Louis Althusser with the purpose of thinking a Marxism concerned with the problem of theory, but also attentive, through the centrality of the problematic of the conjuncture¸ to the question of historical singularity.","PeriodicalId":156288,"journal":{"name":"Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power","volume":"85 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131898193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Francesca Antonini, Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci: Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity","authors":"D. Moore","doi":"10.1163/26667185-01020012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26667185-01020012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":156288,"journal":{"name":"Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125846109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Words for Being and Acting: The pci and Its History","authors":"M. Tronti","doi":"10.1163/26667185-01020007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26667185-01020007","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Starting from a personal intellectual and political militant position in the Italian Communist Party (pci), this contribution addresses some of the criticisms of the pci on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of its founding. The text offers an insight into the relationship between the party, its political strategy and the action of each communist militant. It stresses the relevance of the language developed within the pci and its importance as a direct expression of a way of being, thinking, communicating and acting as a ‘communist’, as well as the need to return to the revolutionary passion that was masterfully expressed in the young Gramsci’s writing style and form of thought.","PeriodicalId":156288,"journal":{"name":"Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133982886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guido Liguori, (ed.), Gramsci e il populismo","authors":"Matteo Giardiello","doi":"10.1163/26667185-01020011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26667185-01020011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":156288,"journal":{"name":"Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power","volume":"221 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123286587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}