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La Diagonale des Autonomies (70FF from Periscope Transeditions, 41 rue J.P.
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Timbaud, 75011 Paris).
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This 136 page book has been produced by a group of people involved in the
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"area of autonomy". While considered that Autonomy had great achievements
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(particularly in France, Germany and Italy) in the 1970s, it recognises that
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the 1980s took their toll, at least in terms of the participants' resiliance.
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The text therefore tries to situate Autonomy in relation to the changes in
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the relations and forces of production and consumption over the past 10
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years. This proposes that the changes which have taken place open a new area
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of production for direct social utility and that the supercession of
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Taylorist production by smaller, computer-based enterprises can carry forward
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the project of autonomy. Such an analysis may be influenced by the passage of
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individuals from the political to the entrepreneurial margins, as well as by
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the desire to avoid entrapment in an outmoded worldview. The decline of mass
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production and mass consumption is not therefore mourned (or regarded as a
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trick) in the manner of the sundry left groups. Instead, the new fragmented
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"personalised and polyphonic activities" are celebrated as the field in which
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"direct social utility" emerges. In this, it echoes the "New Times" argument,
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but refuses that attempt to tie down discrete social changes on the back of a
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particular political bandwagon.
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Alex Richards
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From Here & Now 11 1991 - No copyright
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