General-intellect、Worker-subjectivity and Non-materiality:A Critical Study on the Concept of "Immaterial Labor" of Italian Autonomy School
On the basis of reflecting and criticizing the Fragment on Machines,which is known as the Biblical Text,the Italian Autonomists branded the knowledge based,creative and symbolic practice activities emerging in the post-industrial society or universal intelligent society as Immaterial Labor and regarded the subjectivity of workers as its main characteristics.In fact,the concept of Immaterial Labor is a very vague term,which not only gives immaterial workers too much optimistic imagination of subjectivity,but also weakens or masks the material environment and material production on which Immaterial Labor lives.More importantly,the attempt of the autonomy theorists to define this concept from the perspective of labor results further increases the abstraction of Immaterial.All this logically originates from some kind of misreading of the Fragment on Machines.
Immaterial LaborItalian AutonomyFragment on MachinesGeneral-intellect