Rest and the West

Sandro Mezzadra is professor of political theory at the Department of the Arts, University of Bologna, and adjunct research fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. His work centers on the relations among globalization, migration and political processes, on contemporary capitalism, as well as on postcolonial theory and criticism. He is a participant in 'post-workerist' debates and one of the founders of the website Euronomade. Mezzadra has published widely in the Italian, English, German and Spanish languages. His latest book in English is In the Marxian Workshops: Producing Subjects (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).Brett Neilson is professor and deputy director at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. In the last decade, his work has centered on issues of migration, borders, and globalization, logistics and digitalization, contemporary capitalism, geopolitics, and automation. Apart from writings with Sandro Mezzadra, he has published many articles and books, including Free Trade in the Bermuda Triangle . and Other Tales of Counterglobalization (Minnesota, 2004). His writings have been translated into sixteen languages: Italian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Slovenian, Turkish, Arabic, Polish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

What is old and what is new in the world system since the global pandemic? Impatient with pieties and distortions, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson survey the categories used by Left and Right and unfold their own map of the present moment thick with operative spaces, infrastructural power, and a variable geometry of oppositional politics.

• PrefaceIntroduction1. Yet Another Crisis?2. Turning Production Over3. Regimes of War4. Working the Poles5. Poles of StruggleAcknowledgementsIndex