"The Irrepressible Lightness and Joy of Being Communist"

We want to celebrate the 90th birthday of one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th and 21st century with a translocal series of lectures. From the early writings in the frame of Operaismo and Autonomia to the broadly discussed books written with Michael Hardt, the Italian philosopher has explored multiple fields of thought and forged crucial concepts with the aim to understand the reality in order to transform it toward communism. In so doing he has contributed to the project of rethinking revolution in the present. The lecture series is meant as a collective embrace to Toni Negri and his living thought, affirming, showing and preserving the situated importance of his work for an uncertain future.

All lectures will be in English, broadcasted via audio live-stream and recorded for the transversal audio-archive.

University of Bologna, 19 April, 15.00: Sandro Mezzadra / Maria Rosaria Marella - La Forma Stato
(audio recording: https://transversal.at/audio/translocal-lecture-series-bologna)

KHM Cologne, 26 April, 18.00: Stefano Harney & Isabell Lorey on Toni Negri’s concept of Constituent Power
(audio recording: https://transversal.at/audio/translocal-lecture-series-cologne)

Amsterdam / Zürich, 3 May, 18.00: Rossella Biscotti / Gerald Raunig - Audio-Assemblage after "The Trial"
Languages: Italiano / English
https://transversal.at/audio/translocal-lecture-series-amsterdam-zurich

University of Lüneburg, 10 May, 18.00: Serhat Karakayali / Roberto Nigro
"Antonio Negri: Philosophy of Subversion. From the Social Worker to Biopolitics"
https://transversal.at/audio/translocal-lecture-series-lueneburg

Madrid, La Maliciosa, 17 May, 18.00: Montserrat Galcerán / Raúl Sánchez Cedillo / Mario Espinoza
La Filosofía del exilio de Toni Negri
A video-recording of the livestream is online at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdnHiHG9Nns
Languages: Italiano / English

Berlin, 28 June, 18.00: Verónica Gago / Marta Malo

Seattle, 12 July, 18.00: Michael Hardt / Alberto Toscano

Frankfurt an der Oder / Vienna, 19 July, 18.00: Katja Diefenbach / Ruth Sonderegger / Pablo Valdivia

For updates and possible changes as the event series progresses, please check the current page or subscribe to the mailinglist transversal, or to one of our newsletters.

See also Gerald Raunig's conversation with Toni Negri:

Part 1 - Constituent Power: https://transversal.at/audio/negri-conversation1
Part 2 - Mesopolitics and Ecologies: https://transversal.at/audio/negri-conversation2
Part 3 (Multitude) and part 4 (Common and Condivision) will be released on 31 May and 21 June, respectively.