EVAN CALDER WILLIAMS: THE COMMUNICATION OF REFUSAL

This talk brings together two seemingly diverse strands and moments: the militant sociological inquiries of Romano Alquati into Italian factories of the '50s and '60s and the last decade of proletarian revolt, particularly urban riots deemed "apolitical" by their critics. Offering a new look at an infamous 1962 riot in Turin widely denounced as an undisciplined spillover of factory antagonism, the talk advances initial materials for a theory and history of social war fundamentally centered on circulation, one that cannot be reconciled with the basic concepts of representational politics.