Dr Alberto Toscano

Sociology

Lecturer | BA MA PhD

a.toscano (@gold.ac.uk)

Research Interests

Social theory and philosophy; Marx and Marxisms; theories of ‘real abstraction’ and value in capitalism; anarchism and communism; political subjectivity; revolt, revolution, and social change; the politics and sociology of religion (fanaticism, messianism, political theology); Italian workerism (operaismo) and autonomism;  cognitive capitalism and immaterial labour; biopolitics; imperialism and empire; economic sociology; contemporary French and Italian thought; the politics of art and the aesthetics of the economy.

Recent Publications

Toscano, Alberto. 2009. The sensuous religion of the multitude: Art and abstraction in Negri. Third Text, 23(4), pp. 369-382.

Toscano, Alberto. 2008. Sovereign Impunity. New Left Review, 50, pp. 128-135.

Toscano, Alberto. 2008. The Culture of Abstraction. Theory Culture & Society, 25(4), pp. 57-75.

Toscano, Alberto. 2008. The Open Secret of Real Abstraction. Rethinking Marxism, 20(2), pp. 273-287.

Toscano, Alberto. 2007. David Harvey. Development And Change, 38(6), pp. 1127-1135.

Toscano, Alberto. 2007. Powers of Pacification: State and Empire in Gabriel Tarde. Economy and Society, 36, pp. 597-613.

Toscano, Alberto. 2007. Vital Strategies: Maurizio Lazzarato and the Metaphysics of Contemporary Capitalism. Theory, Culture and Society, 24(6), pp. 71-91.