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\"\"http:\/\/seansturm.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/26\/paolo-virno-in-english\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Virno is best known as a post-operaist, an activist and theorist of immaterial labour, the kind of work that characterizes of post-Fordist society. The best introduction to Virno\u2019s post-operaism is his \u201cVirtuosity and Revolution<\/a>\u201d from ARTicles<\/em> (2004).<\/p>\n

Many of these links here are from the excellent Generation Online<\/em> site<\/a>, moderated by Arianna Bove and Erik Empson.<\/p>\n

Articles and Books (in chronological order)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDreamers of a Successful Life<\/a>.\u201d Trans. Jared Becker. Autonomia: Post-Political Politics<\/em> 3.3 (1980): 112-17. Also at Libcom.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ambivalence of Disenchantment.\u201d Trans. M. Turtis. Radical Thought in Italy: A Potential Politics<\/em>. Minneapolis, MA: UMP, 1996. 17-18.<\/p>\n

\u201cVirtuosity and Revolution: The Political Theory of Exodus<\/a>.\u201d Ibid<\/em>. 189-209. (It is available here<\/a> or here<\/a> for research purposes. The piece was reworked for \u201cVirtuosity and Revolution\u201d \u2014 see below.)<\/p>\n

\u201cDo You Remember Counterrevolution?\u201d Trans. Michael Hardt. Ibid.<\/em> 241-59.<\/p>\n

\u201cNotes on the \u2018General Intellect.\u2019<\/a>\u201d Marxism beyond Marxism.<\/em> Trans. Cesare Casarino. Ed. Saree Makdisi, Cesare Casarino and R. E. Karl. London: Routledge, 1996. 265-66.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Social Working Day<\/a>.\u201d Writing as \u201cImmaterial Workers of the World.\u201d Libcom.org<\/em>. n.d. With a response by Toni Negri.<\/p>\n

[“Reflections on Labor Power<\/a>.”] Libcom.org<\/em>. n.d. Excerpt from part 3 of Il Ricordo del Presente<\/em> (Bollati Boringhieri: 1999).<\/p>\n

\u201cOn General Intellect<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0Trans. Arianna Bove. Libcom.org<\/em>. Also online at Generation Online<\/em><\/a>. From Lessico Postfordista<\/em> [Postfordist Lexicon] (Feltrinelli: 2001).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Two Masks of Materialism<\/a>.\u201d 1991. Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy<\/em> 12 (2001): 167-73.<\/p>\n

A Grammar of the Multitude: For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life<\/em>. Trans. Isabella Bertoletti, James Cascaito and Andrea Casson. New York: Semiotext[e], 2004. Available at Generation Online<\/a><\/em> or Libcom.org<\/a>.<\/em> Excerpted at \u201cPublicness of the Intellect<\/a>,\u201d Transversal<\/em> (Jan. 2001).<\/p>\n

\u201cPaolo Virno and Judith Revel Revisit the Foucault\/Chomsky Debate<\/a>.\u201d With Judith Revel. Trans. Arianna Bove. Generation Online. <\/em>Seminar at Rome, April-May 2002.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne and Many<\/a>.\u201d Trans. Nate Holdren (via Spanish [?]). Generation Online. <\/em>Excerpt from Quando il verbo si fa carne<\/em> (Bollati Boringhieri, 2003) 186-87 (ch. 7).<\/p>\n

\u201cPublic Sphere, Labour, Multitude: Strategies of Resistance in Empire<\/a>.\u201d With Toni Negri. Trans. Arianna Bove. Generation Online.<\/em> Seminar at Pisa, 5 Feb. 2003.<\/p>\n

\u201cVirtuosity and Revolution<\/a>.\u201d Trans. Ed Emory. ARTicles<\/em>. 1 May 2004. Orig. from the Make-World Conference<\/a> in Munich, 18-21 Oct. 2001; publ. as \u201cpaper#2<\/a>\u201d (Nov. 2002); online at Makeworlds<\/em><\/a> (23 Sep. 2003).<\/p>\n

\u201cWit and Innovation<\/a>.\u201d Trans. Arianna Bove. Transversal<\/em>. June 2004. \u201cPrologue<\/a>\u201d to Motto di Spirito e Azione Innovativa: Per Una Logica del Cambiamento<\/em> [Wit and Innovation: For a Logic of Change] (Bollati Boringhieri, 2005).<\/p>\n

\u201cFamiliar Horror.\u201d Trans. Alessia Ricciardi. Grey Room<\/em> 21 (Fall 2005): 13-16. (Available thru JSTOR<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

\u201cTheses on the New European Fascism.\u201d Ibid.<\/em>\u00a021-25. (Available thru JSTOR<\/a> and for research purposes here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

\u201cRight to Resistance<\/a>\u201d (2004). Trans. Nate Holdren. Generation Online. <\/em>31 May 2005.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnthropology and Theory of Institutions<\/a>.\u201d Trans. Alberto Toscano. Transversal<\/em>. May 2007.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the Parasitic Character of Wage Labor<\/a>.\u201d Trans. Max Henninger. SubStance<\/em> 36.1 (2007): 36-42.<\/p>\n

\u201cLabour and Language<\/a>.\u201d Trans. Arianna Bove. Generation Online<\/em>. 3 July 2007.<\/p>\n

\u201cPost-Fordist Semblance.\u201d Trans. Max Henninger. SubStance<\/em> 36.1 (2007): 42-46. (Available thru Muse<\/a> and for research purposes here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

\u201cMultitude or Working Class<\/a>.\u201d Trans. Arianna Bove. Libcom.org<\/em>. 6 Mar. 2008.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom Violence to Resistance<\/a>.\u201d Trans. Nate Holdren. Generation Online.<\/em> 6 Mar. 2008.<\/p>\n

Multitude Between Innovation and Negation<\/em>. Trans. Isabella Bertoletti, James Cascaito and Andrea Casson. Los Angeles, CA: Semiotext(e), 2008. (The bibliographical details are at MIT Press<\/a>; it is partially viewable at Amazon<\/a> and one chapter is available for research purposes here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

\u201cNatural-Historical Diagrams: The \u2018New Global\u2019 Movement and the Biological Invariant<\/a>.\u201d Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy<\/em> 5.1 (2009).<\/p>\n

\u201cAngels and the General Intellect: Individuation in Duns Scotus and Gilbert Simondon<\/a>.\u201d Trans. Nick Heron. Parrhesia<\/em> 7 (2009): 58-67.<\/p>\n

Interviews (in chronological order)<\/strong><\/span>
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cGeneral Intellect, Exodus, Multitude.\u201d\u00a0Trans. Nate Holdren. Archip\u00e9lago<\/em> 54 (June 2002). Generation Online<\/a>.<\/em> 6 Mar. 2008.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Republic of the Multitude.\u201d With Marcelo Expositio. Trans. Nate Holdren.\u00a0Generation Online<\/a><\/em>. 3 Dec. 2003.<\/p>\n

\u201cCreating a New Public Sphere, without the State.\u201d With H\u00e9ctor Pav\u00f3n.\u00a0Trans. Nate Holdren. Libcom.org<\/em><\/a> or Generation Online<\/em><\/a>. 24 Dec. 2004.<\/p>\n

\u201cInterview with Paolo Virno.\u201d With Branden W. Joseph. Trans. Alessia Ricciardi. Grey Room<\/em> 21 (Fall 2005): 26-37.<\/p>\n

\u201cMultitude and Working Class.\u201d With Maurizio Lazzarato. Trans. Arianna Bove. Generation Online<\/a><\/em>. 23 May 2007.<\/p>\n

\u201cBetween Disobedience and Exodus.\u201d With Flavia Costa.\u00a0Trans. Nate Holdren. Generation Online<\/a>. <\/em>6 Mar. 2008.<\/p>\n

\u201cFacing a New 17th Century.\u201d With Veronica Gago. Trans. Nate Holdren. Generation Online<\/a>. <\/em>6 Mar. 2008.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Dismeasure of Art. An Interview with Paolo Virno.\u201d<\/em> With Sonja Lavaert and Pascal Gielen. Open<\/a><\/em> 17: A Precarious Existence: Vulnerability in the Public Domain (May 2009).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Soviets of the Multitude: On Collectivity and Collective Work.\u201d With Alexei Penzin. Mediations<\/a><\/em> 25.1 (Fall 2010) 81-92.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Virno is best known as a post-operaist, an activist and theorist of immaterial labour, the kind of work that characterizes of post-Fordist society. The best introduction to Virno\u2019s post-operaism is his \u201cVirtuosity and Revolution\u201d from ARTicles (2004).<\/p>\n

Many of these links here are from the excellent Generation Online site, moderated by Arianna Bove and Erik Empson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5182,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/5182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}