Labor of Fire: The Ontology of Labor between Economy and Culture PDF
Preview Labor of Fire: The Ontology of Labor between Economy and Culture
Gulli_FM_P3R1_10-05-05.qxd 5/10/05 4:43 PM Page i Labor of Fire Labor of Fire In the series Labor in Crisis, edited by Stanley Aronowitz William DiFazio, Ordinary Poverty: A Little Food and Cold Storage Richard A. Greenwald, The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York Jonathan Cutler, Labor’s Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism Philip Yale Nicholson, Labor’s Story in the United States Nelson Lichtenstein, Labor’s War at Home: The CIO in World War II Thaddeus Russell, Out of the Jungle: Jimmy Hoffa and the Remaking of the American Working Class Steve Martinot, The Rule of Racialization: Class, Identity, Governance Randy Martin, Financialization of Daily Life Joe L. Kincheloe, The Sign of the Burger: McDonald’s and the Culture of Power Joshua B. Freeman,In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1966 Labor of Fire The Ontology of Labor between Economy and Culture BRUNO GULLÌ TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS Philadelphia Temple University Press 1601 North Broad Street Philadelphia PA 19122 www.temple.edu/tempress Copyright © 2005 by Temple University All rights reserved Published 2005 Printed in the United States ofAmerica The paper used in this publication meets the requirements ofthe American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence ofPaper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992 Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gullì, Bruno, 1959- Labor offire : the ontology oflabor between economy and culture / Bruno Gullì. p. cm. — (Labor in crisis) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-59213-112-3 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 1-59213-113-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Labor—Philosophy. 2. Work—Philosophy. 3. Marxian economics. 4. Capitalism. 5. Economics—Philosophy. I. Title: Ontology oflabor between economy and culture. II. Title. III. Series. HD4904.G82 2005 331'.01—dc22 2005044023 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 FORMYMOTHERANDINMEMORYOFMYFATHER; FORMYBROTHERSANDSISTERS In fertility time grew. —Pablo Neruda, Canto General Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 The Ontology of Labor: Problems of the Relationship between Philosophy and Political Economy 17 REMARK:The Productive Power of Capital 50 2 On the Difference between Living Labor and Productive Labor 61 REMARK:1 Dialectic and metaphysics 75 REMARK:2 Vulgar metaphysics and poetic metaphysics 78 3 Radicalizing the Ontology of Labor: Institution and Utopia 107 4 The Solitude of Labor: On the Relationship between CreativeLabor and Artistic Production 147 Notes 191 Bibliography 205 Index 211 Acknowledgments THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE who, in many ways, contributed to the makingof this book. First and foremost, I have to thank Stanley Aronowitz, in whose 1996 seminar on Marx the first ideas of this study were formulated and who provided the structure and the space for them to be developed and printed. I need to remember the late Robert Dombroski, who constantly encouraged me, and I thank Frank Rosengarten, who carefully read the man- uscript as a doctoral dissertation. Michael Hardt read the manuscript for Tem- ple University Press and gave me important structural suggestions, which I almost entirely incorporated into the text. Sandro Mezzadra and Pedro Canò also read the whole manuscript, at different stages of its development, and especially to Sandro I owe thanks for many insightful comments and sugges- tions. I wish to thank Micah Kleit, of Temple University Press, for his con- stantly supportive comments. I also want to thank Peter Bratsis and Michael Menser for reading an earlier version of Chapter 2, perhaps the most impor- tant chapter in the book, for Found Object. Thanks are also due to Michael Menser, to whom I owe my interest in Bookchin. David Siar also read an ear- lier version of Chapter 2 for Cultural Logic.Sandra Luft gave me the oppor- tunity to study Heidegger’s critique of Nietzsche when I was a student at San Francisco State University. A special thanks to my twin brother, Nino, whohas read virtually everything I wrote; to my sister, Angela, and Nino Quaranta, with whom I experimented, in the summer of1998 in the Calabrian countryside, the viability of a different economy, geared toward the production of use-values; and to Vera K., who provided an important structure of support and care over the years.
The list of books you might like
