Labor of Fire: The Ontology of Labor between Economy and Culture

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE who, in many ways, contributed to the making of this book. First and foremost, I have to thank Stanley Aronowitz, in whose 1996 seminar on Marx the first ideas of this study were formulated and who provided the structure and the space for them to be developed and printed. I need to remember the late Robert Dombroski, who constantly encouraged me, and I thank Frank Rosengarten, who carefully read the manuscript as a doctoral dissertation. Michael Hardt read the manuscript for Temple University Press and gave me important structural suggestions, which I almost entirely incorporated into the text. Sandro Mezzadra and Pedro Canò also read the whole manuscript, at different stages of its development, and especially to Sandro I owe thanks for many insightful comments and suggestions . I wish to thank Micah Kleit, of Temple University Press, for his constantly supportive comments. I also want to thank Peter Bratsis and Michael Menser for reading an earlier version of Chapter 2, perhaps the most important chapter in the book, for Found Object. Thanks are also due to Michael Menser, to whom I owe my interest in Bookchin. David Siar also read an earlier version of Chapter 2 for Cultural Logic. Sandra Luft gave me the opportunity to study Heidegger’s critique of Nietzsche when I was a student at San Francisco State University. A special thanks to my twin brother, Nino, who has read virtually everything I wrote; to my sister, Angela, and Nino Quaranta, with whom I experimented, in the summer of 1998 in the Calabrian countryside, the viability of a different economy, geared toward the production of use-values; and to Vera K., who provided an important structure of support and care over the years. Labor of Fire ...