Interview- Armando Verdiglione (1944– ), Italian psychoanalyst and semiotician.
Verdiglione was originally trained as a literature scholar, then in the early
1970s he completed his psychoanalytic training in Paris with Lacan.
Extremely compromised by his closeness to Italy’s rich and famous,
Verdiglione’s scientific credibility greatly eroded in the 1980s and 1990s. - Franco Basaglia (1924–80), Italian psychiatrist and founder of the ‘insti-
tutional psychiatry’ movement in Italy. In the 1960s and 1970s, Basaglia
was instrumental to a massive reform of psychiatric institutions in what
was an extremely backward and repressive environment. - Guattari’s essay is ‘Les luttes de désir et la psychanalyse’, republished in
La Révolution moléculaire(1977, 29–43), and translated as ‘Psychoanalysis
and the Struggles of Desire’ in Molecular Revolution(1984, 62–72). - Following the repression of the youth movement in Bologna and other
cities in the summer of 1977, an anti-repression convention was organized
for the days of 23, 24 and 25 September. Guattari was instrumental in its
organization and participated personally in it. - According to François Dosse, Guattari and François Pain created Radio Libre
Paris [Free Radio Paris] (subsequently called Radio Tomate), for which
Bruno Guattari, Félix’s son, took over the programming (Dosse, 2007, 360). - San Basilio is a sub-proletarian neighborhood in Rome, where in the late
1970s squatters gave life to highly visible political struggles. - Since the early 1960s, Bologna had a city administration mostly managed
by members of the PCI, and the party was being accused of having become
a locus of power. - For more detail on Telestreet, see Berardi (Bifo) et al. (2004).
- The Centre-Left coalition won the elections in the spring of 2006. Since
then, a few of the journalists and performers ‘epurated’ by Berlusconi have
been called back. - These are the two names of a writers’ collective composed of four or some-
times five members based in Bologna. They have published very successful his-
torical-political ‘narrative objects’ – mid-way between a novel and a historical/
biographical narration – among which we may cite Q(Einaudi, 2000) and Asce
di Guerra(Einaudi, 2003). - These two essays are available in English in the volume Time for Revolution
(Negri 2003). - See the work of the French economist Serge Latouche, who makes of
‘décroissance’ – literally ‘de- or un-growth’, but in English the translation
‘postdevelopment’ has prevailed – the most important priority for affluent
Western societies. - Marco Pannella (1930–), founder and historical leader of the Partito
Radicale Italiano.
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