George Caffentzis
Encyclopedia
George Caffentzis is a political philosopher and an autonomist
Marxist. He founded the Midnight Notes Collective, is a founder member of the co-ordinator of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and a professor of philosophy
at the University of Southern Maine
.
Autonomism
Autonomism refers to a set of left-wing political and social movements and theories close to the socialist movement. As an identifiable theoretical system it first emerged in Italy in the 1960s from workerist communism...
Marxist. He founded the Midnight Notes Collective, is a founder member of the co-ordinator of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and a professor of philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
at the University of Southern Maine
University of Southern Maine
The University of Southern Maine is a multi-campus public urban comprehensive university and part of the University of Maine System. USM's three primary campuses are located in Portland, Gorham, and Lewiston...
.
Selected articles
- Throwing away the ladder: the universities in the crisis, LibCom, undated
- An Introduction to Class Struggle in the US, 1973-1998, 1998
- Is Truth Enough?, LibCom, 2004
- The Petroleum Commons, CounterPunchCounterpunchCounterpunch can refer to:* Counterpunch , a punch in boxing* CounterPunch, a bi-weekly political newsletter* Counterpunch , a type of punch used in traditional typography* Punch-Counterpunch, a Transformers character...
, 2004 - No Blood for Oil, 2004
- Notes on the edu–factory and Cognitive Capitalism, European Institute for Progressive Cultural Practices, 2007 (with Silvia FedericiSilvia FedericiSilvia Federici is a scholar, teacher, and activist from the radical autonomist feminist Marxist tradition. She is a professor emerita and Teaching Fellow at Hofstra University, where she was a social science professor...
) - Autonomous Universities and the Making of the Knowledge Commons, The Commoner, 2008
- Academic Freedom & the War on Terror: A Lobster Tale, The Commoner, 2008
- Starvation Politics: From Ancient Egypt to the Present Day, Turbulence, 2008
- John Locke - The Philosopher of Primitive Accumulation, Bristol Radical Pamphleteer #5, 2008
- Everything must change so that everything can stay the same’: Notes on Obama’s Energy Plan’, Turbulence, 2009
- Network of Resistance to the "Structural Adjustment" of US Universities, the Edu-Factory, 2009 (with Silvia FedericiSilvia FedericiSilvia Federici is a scholar, teacher, and activist from the radical autonomist feminist Marxist tradition. She is a professor emerita and Teaching Fellow at Hofstra University, where she was a social science professor...
) - The World Bank and the Double Crisis of African Universities, The Edu-Factory, 2010
- University Struggles at the End of the Edu-Deal, Mute Magazine, 2010
Books
- Parole abusate, monete tosate e governo civile. La filosofia del denaro di John Locke, Instituto dell' Enciclopedia Italiana fondata da Giovanni Trecanni, Rome, Italy, 1988.
- Clipped Coins, Abused Words and Civil Government: John Locke's Philosophy of Money (New York: Autonomedia/ Semiotext(e) Press, 1989).
- Midnight Oil: Work, Energy,War, 1973–1992, (New York: Autonomedia, 1992) (co-edited). A chapter from Midnight Oil , "Introduction to The New Enclosures," was reprinted in David Solnit (ed.), Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2004), pp. 61–72.
- A Thousand Flowers: Social Struggles Against Structural Adjustment in African Universities , (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2000) (co-edited).
- Exciting the Industry of Mankind: George Berkeley's Philosophy of Money (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000).
- Auroras of the Zapatistas: Local and Global Struggles in the Fourth World War. (New York: Autonomedia, 2001) (co-edited).