The Golden Horde by Nanni Balestrini
The Golden Horde is a definitive work on the Italian revolutionary movements of the 1960s and ’70s. An anthology of texts and fragments woven together with an original commentary, The Golden Horde widens our understanding of the full complexity and richness of radical thought and practice in Italy during the 1960s and ’70s. The book covers the generational turbulence of Italy’s postwar period, the transformations of Italian capitalism, the new analyses by worker-focused intellectuals, the student movement of 1968, the Hot Autumn of 1969, the extra-parliamentary groups of the early 1970s, the Red Brigades, the formation of a radical women’s movement, the development of Autonomia, and the build-up to the watershed moment of the spontaneous political movement of 1977. Far from being merely a handbook of political history, The Golden Horde also sheds light on two decades of Italian culture, including the newspapers, songs, journals, festivals, comics, and philosophy that these movements produced. The book features writings by Sergio Bologna, Umberto Eco, Elvio Fachinelli, Lea Melandri, Danilo Montaldi, Toni Negri, Raniero Panzieri, Franco Piperno, Rossana Rossanda, Paolo Virno, and others, as well as an in-depth introduction by translator Richard Braude outlining the work’s composition and development.
"This classic book, now translated into English, uses eyewitness accounts from those decades to trace uprisings of workers and students in Italy, a country where the extreme left was particularly strong..This sprawling book vividly portrays the chaos, confusion, and contradictions of those years." * Foreign Affairs *
"The Golden Horde figures as an anthology and rather than being a straight ‘political’ or ‘workerist’ recounting the two authors include much information and assessment of the counter-cultural movements in Italy as well as the widespread factory struggles that mark the period . . . Moroni and Balestrini offer up this book as both a tool mémoire and as a way of charting 'the epoch defining passage from one phase of capitalism to another.'" * Penniless Press Magazine *
"The Golden Horde figures as an anthology and rather than being a straight ‘political’ or ‘workerist’ recounting the two authors include much information and assessment of the counter-cultural movements in Italy as well as the widespread factory struggles that mark the period . . . Moroni and Balestrini offer up this book as both a tool mémoire and as a way of charting 'the epoch defining passage from one phase of capitalism to another.'" * Penniless Press Magazine *
Nanni Balestrini (1935–2019) was a poet, experimental writer, visual artist, and founding member of both the avant-garde Gruppo ’63 and the revolutionary organization Potere Operaio. Primo Moroni (1936–98) was a writer, activist, and archivist. Founder of the Calusa bookshop in Milan, for decades he was a point of reference for radical movements and subcultures across Italy. Richard Braude is a translator living in Palermo, Sicily.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780857427465 |
| ISBN 10 | 0857427466 |
| Title | The Golden Horde |
| Author | Nanni Balestrini |
| Series | The Italian List |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Seagull Books London Ltd |
| Year published | 2021-11-19 |
| Number of pages | 600 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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