Re/reading Tronti
The reading of Tronti’s “The Strategy of the Refusal” opens tomorrow over at Long Sunday. You can find the rundown of contributions here, a little introduction to the symposium here, and the relevant essay is here.
I was surprised , and pleased, at the amount of interest, but perhaps this ‘return to Tronti’ marks a turning point in thinking through the present, a moving beyond as much as a ‘going back’ - since the latter is not really possible except in this sense of marking the passage of time.
You can, of course, read those remarks as bibliographic or authorial, of the trajectories and problematics as they might be figured by certain proper names: Tronti, Lazzarato, Negri and so on. Or, as the trajectories and dilemmas as they might be characterised by other kinds of names: Operaio, Autonomia, Seattle, antiwar movement, EuroMayday, et al. Both, obviously, but preferably without the authorial function in full throat.
But, still, in such contexts, returning to read particular texts - though I admit that for many this reading will be their first, and that will be interesting in itself - is a way of focussing onself on the trajectory as such. On motion and its obstacles, on what might make time flow.
