Operaism and postoperaism: a look from the perspective of the philosophy of technique

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to think about the theoretical foundations of technique within workerism and post-workerism and its aims are three. First of all, we point out how an anti-instrumental conception of technique, especially in terms of its anti-neutrality postulate, is implicit within workerist approach. Secondly, our purpose is to elucidate how this perspective shows a continuity between the first workerism and Negri and Virno’s contemporary works'. Then, we will suggest than an important breaking point between workerism and «oficial Marxism» resides in the different way in which they think the space of use-value production. Based on Friedrich Rapp's distinction between methodological and factual neutrality, we will suggest that both perspectives refuse thinking means of production as neutral, but they think differently the neutrality.