Inchiesta and global social movements : a renewing?

Attempt of our paper will be putting the “inquiry” in connection with last years’ global social movements. According to the most radical interpretations within workerist tradition, inquiry (“conricerca”, Alquati) is not to reduce to an empirical device for classical sociological research about an external object. On the contrary, it focuses -within a political rather than only methodological frame- on self-recognition of potentially or actually social subjects. Therefore, inquiry is an internal “function” of historically different class compositions, getting over both the traditional view of class-party relationship and external intellectual. The addressed key question is whether information networks and formation processes in the global social movements and particulary in social struggle can be somehow considered as the renewing of the “inquiry” under the new conditions of global capitalism. Provided it is so, that would raise another two main questions concerning: i) the relation between these processes and the organisational features of “global/local” movements with particular reference to the antihegemonic coexistence of differences; ii) the new political class composition that could possibly be related to the social reproduction of life within the total capital relationships (“real subsumption”) rather than to strictly immaterial labour. This would take into account the fact that no strictly considered “class” identity has been emerging from last years’ global movements and current struggles. May these outline a not “workerist” class composition?