Paolo Virno

Paolo Virno

Paolo Virno (Napoli, 1952-)

Major Works: A Grammar of the Multitude, Quando il Verbo si fa Carne Quote:

"Unremunerated social cooperation, or what little of it is found today -- and that seeming something of a fetish -- as a potent aspect of human labour, restores to production time body and quality, feeling and relationships, the pleasure of understanding and the desire to organise with the greatest possible tactical intelligence one's own hatred. Within this 'diachronic zone' of the work-day is also situated the problem of hedonism, of realised happiness, of the restored power of the category of the individual, beyond any ideological parody of the self." (from Dreamers of a successful life - Autonomia, 1980)

"We cannot question wage labour without introducing a powerful idea of freedom of speech; we cannot seriously invoke freedom of speech without aiming to suppress wage labour." (from Lessico Postfordista)

Journals: Forme di Vita, Posse, Multitudes, Global Magazine, Metropoli Political associations: Autonomia, Disobbedienti

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Interviews:	The difficulty of saying 'no' (2012) Wit and innovative action - Prologue Il ricordo del presente - excerpt General Intellect (Entry in Postfordist Lexicon) Creating a new public sphere without the State The right to resistance From violence to resistance Between disobedience and exodus Facing a new 17th century General Intellect, Exodus, Multitude Multitude or Working Class The Republic of the Multitude	The dismeasure of art
Essays	One and Many (extract from Quando il Verbo si fa Carne) Labour and Language Public Sphere, Labour and Multitude: Strategies of resistance to Empire (2003, with Antonio Negri) Debate with Judith Revel on the Foucault/Chomsky debate (2002) Moltitudine e Principio di Individuazione (Italian)	There used to be more before it was taken away ... evviva l'intelletto generale che fu! Virtuosity and Revolution: the Political Theory of Exodus Mayday: La Festa del General Intellect (Italian, 2004) Apparenze Postfordiste (Italian, 2001)
Resources	Review of Motto di Spirito e azione innovativa (AB) Notes on Quando il Verbo si fa Carne (AB) A Grammar of the Multitude	Virno Texts in Spanish
Resources		Interview with Paolo Virno, Barcellona 2003 De la violencia a la resistencia Gramatica de la Multitud
Bibliography	Motto di spirito e azione innovativa. (Rubettino, 2005) Quando il verbo si fa carne. Linguaggio e natura umana. (Bollati Boringhieri, 2003) Scienze sociali e ‘natura umana’. Facoltà di linguaggio, invariante biologico, rapporti di produzione. (Rubbettino, 2003) Esercizi di esodo. Linguaggio e azione politica (Ombre Corte, 2002) Grammatica della moltitudine. Per una analisi delle forme di vita contemporanee. (Rubettino, 2001) Gilbert Simondon: L’individuazione psichica e collettiva. (edited by P. Virno, DeriveApprodi, 2001) Il ricordo del presente. Saggio sul tempo storico (Bollati Boringhieri, 1999) Radical Thought in Italy. (edited with Michael Hardt, University of Minnesota Press, 1996) Parole con parole. Poteri e limiti del linguaggio (Donzelli, 1995) Mondanità. L’idea di 'mondo' tra esperienza sensibile e sfera pubblica. (Manifestolibri, 1994) Opportunisme, cynisme et peur. Ambivalence di désenchantement suivi de Les labyrinthes de la langue (Editions de l’éclat, Paris-Combas 1991)