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Franco ''Bifo'' Berardi - The Soul at Work From Alienation to Autonomy

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First of all, digital technology spread very quick! y,<br />

forming in many ways the modalities of productive J<strong>at</strong>lOt .'<br />

conc<strong>at</strong>en<strong>at</strong>ions.<br />

Secondly, the hierarchical structure of the fac<strong>to</strong>ry model<br />

<strong>The</strong> aspir<strong>at</strong>ion <strong>to</strong> self-realiz<strong>at</strong>ion became fundamental<br />

reconstruction of a functioning social model perfectly<br />

digital productive modalities. Social his<strong>to</strong>ry can be seen<br />

uninterrupted s<strong>to</strong>ry of the refusal of work and the re,:orLStrU(<br />

of the p<strong>to</strong>ductive system, where reciprocal tesistance and<br />

coexist. In industrial societies capital and the working<br />

contradic<strong>to</strong>ry interests, but they also had a common intere.st.<br />

tradiction came from the fact th<strong>at</strong> capital aimed <strong>to</strong> take from<br />

labor the gre<strong>at</strong>est possible amount of labor time and value ,<br />

the workers' interest was instead th<strong>at</strong> o f avoiding eXlploit<strong>at</strong><br />

saving rheir physical and intellectual energies for th,'m:sehres. At<br />

same time though, workers and capital both had an<br />

reducing necessary labor time, introducing productive<br />

tisms, machines and technologies. This is whar actually<br />

<strong>The</strong> workers' struggle for power pushed capiral <strong>to</strong> use<br />

instead of workets, exactly as Karl Marx had anticip<strong>at</strong>ed<br />

Grundrisse. <strong>The</strong> introduction of microelectronic te

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