** Introduction: Autonomia

** From Operaismo to Autonomist Marxism

*** 1. Promise and limits of an ‘autonomist’ class analysis

**** 1.1 Classical Workerism

**** 1.2. Workerism beyond workers

**** 1.3 Cleaver’s account of the working class

**** 1.4 Autonomy as basis or function of working class composition?

*** 2. Beyond leftism?[31]

*** 3. Negotiating the ‘law of value’

*** 4. Grasping retreat

**** 4.1 Confronting the evidence of decomposition

**** 4.2 Escaping the harness?

*** 5. A political reading of Capital: From 20 yards of linen to the self-reduction of prices in one easy step

** The Arcane of Reproductive Production

*** Introduction

*** 1. The quest for value

*** 2. The subsumption of society by capital and class antagonism

*** 3. The dialectic of capital as despotism and bourgeois freedom

*** 4. Consequences of the undialectical conception of capital as ‘just imposition of work’

*** 5. The nature of labour power

*** 6. Invisible value

**** The reality of ‘invisible value’

**** The real issue hidden by the theory of invisible value

*** Conclusions

** Keep on Smiling — Questions on Immaterial Labour

*** Introduction: a colourful necklace

*** 1 Immaterial labour and a new theory for the ‘new era’

**** 1.1 Immaterial labour and the millennial theories

**** 1.2 Immaterial labour, and the contradictions of capital

**** 1.3 Immaterial labour and subjectivity

**** 1.4 Immaterial labour and viability of revolution — self-management

**** 1.5 Immaterial labour and a reassuring new world

**** 1.6 Immaterial labour, and the new movements

*** 2. The origin of immaterial labour as class struggle

**** 2.1 Immaterial labour as the result of subjectivity and class struggle — myth and reality

**** 2.3 A class struggle analysis of the ideology of weightless design

**** 2.4 An answer to traditional Marxism — and to Negri and Hardt

**** 2.5 A class struggle analysis of the origin of immaterial labour as the creation of communication and affects

**** 2.6 Technological determinism or autonomous subjectivity?

*** 3. Immaterial labour and capital as objectification

**** 3.1. Production as inherent in the practices of labour

**** 3.2 It’s capital: this is why it does not need the capitalist

**** 3.3 It’s capital: this is why it needs the capitalist

**** 3.4 Subjectivity and the invisible hand of... immaterial labour

*** 4. Immaterial labour and the mind of capital

**** 4.1 The contradictions of immaterial production as the contradictions of capital

**** 4.2 The ontological inversion

**** 4.3 Who shares the mind of capital?

**** 4.4 The subjective side of real subsumption

**** 4.5 Hatred as contradiction of capital

**** 4.6 Negri and Hardt’s conception of immaterial labour as ‘abstract labour’ and the contradictions of capital

**** 4.7 An outdated theory?

*** 5. Immaterial labour and the heart of capital

**** 5.1. ‘Immaterial production of communication and affects and subversion

**** 5.2. Immaterial production of communication and affects and real subsumption

**** 5.3. Immaterial production of communication and affects and the ontological inversion

**** 5.4. Post-Fordism and the ontological inversion

**** 5.5. Immaterial production of networks of social relations and alternative networks

**** 5.6. How subversive is immaterial production and what does this actually mean?

**** 5.7. Immaterial production as the apology for the ontological inversion

*** Conclusion: a bad string makes a bad necklace

**** New old categories for the ‘new’ era

**** A new fetishism of production for the ‘new’ era

**** A new paleo-Marxism for the ‘new’ era

**** Objectivism and subjectivism for the ‘new’ era

**** The silver linings of capital: optimism and pessimism for the ‘new’ era

**** A ‘new’ religion for a ‘new’ era: the doctrine of Negative Reality Inversion[218]