lectures at the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London and is a member of the Centre for Labour and Global Production. His most recent translations are A. Asor Rosa, The Writer and the People (Seagull 2020), M. Tronti, The Twilight of Politics (Seagull 2021), and M. Cacciari, Hamletica (Seagull 2021). His most recent publication is: "Planning for Conflict" (with A. Toscano), South Atlantic Quarterly, 2020, 119 (1): 11-30.
The provisional hypotheses of 1972 appear to be less a ruptural betrayal than an experimental development (however controversial and contingent) in Tronti’s uniquely political theorizing of relations between workers’ struggle and capitalist development.
Written towards the end of what we might call the “second period” of Tronti’s reflections, that of the so-called “autonomy of the Political,” sandwiched between the more famous phase of Operaismo and the – almost completely unknown to the Anglophone world – “third period” political theological phase, that of the twilight [tramonto] of the political, the short text translated here will come to many Anglophone readers of Tronti as a surprise.
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