RESONANCE Autumn Seminar, with Jacopo Galimberti, that seeks to trace the representation of revolutionary subjectivity, focusing on the figure of the monster as depicted in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s. 

Hopeful Monsters:

Operaismo, Autonomia, and the Reconfiguration of Revolutionary Subjectivity

Jacopo Galimberti (Università Iuav di Venezia)

In the context of the RESONANCE project and the IHA’s Permanent Seminar, Jacopo Galimberti will deliver a seminar featuring his latest research at the Salão Nobre of the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, on September 9 at 18.00. The session – titled Hopeful Monsters: Operaismo, Autonomia, and the Reconfiguration of Revolutionary Subjectivity – seeks to trace the representation of revolutionary subjectivity, focusing on the figure of the monster as depicted in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s. Galimberti will explore these hopeful monsters as a visual reflection on the political taxonomies of the twentieth century, tracing, in the process, the characteristics of a revolutionary subjectivity. This author’s approach relates to the RESONANCE project’s research on revolutionary intersubjectivity and its materialisations across timescapes.

The talk will be delivered in English.

This session integrates RESONANCE’s Autumn Seminar, which also includes the RESONANCE Reading Group, which will take place on September 9 at noon, and will count with Galimberti’s participation. The RESONANCE Reading Group is a monthly meeting that brings together members of the academic community, colleagues, friends, and enthusiasts of contemporary cultural history to reflect on and discuss a fundamental text or book. The sixth session of the RESONANCE Reading Group focuses on Chapter 7 of the book Images of Class: Operaismo, Autonomia and the Visual Arts (1962-1988).

More information about the RESONANCE project here.

The RESONANCE project is supported by the Programa Regional Lisboa 2030, Portugal 2030 and the European Union (LISBOA2030-FEDER-00914500). This work is also co-funded by national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the reference 2023.17624.ICDT (DOI: https://doi.org/10.54499/2023.17624.ICDT).