...Miriam Tola This essay discusses Paolo Virno's anchoring of the common in the linguistic faculties of Homo sapiens . It explores how Virno's figure of the anthropos intersects the hegemonic model of Man that largely underwrites the Anthropocene concept. In particular, it suggests that Virno engages...

... Virno's conception of anthropogenesis might be a useful concept for the anthropocene, and vice versa. The Anthropocene returns us to the question of capitalism and human nature, but this theoretical déjà vu is an attempt to escape the generalized déjà vu of the end of history. © 2017 Duke University...

... . 1996 . “Do You Remember Revolution?” In Radical Thought in Italy: A Potential Politics , edited by Virno Paolo Hardt Michael , 225 – 40 . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . de Bloois Joost . 2015 . “The Death of Vitruvian Man: Anomaly, Anomie, Autonomy...

... When Communism Becomes Flesh “ When Communism Becomes Flesh” might have been the title of Paulo Virno’s book Quando il verbo si fa carne. Linguaggio e natura umana (When...

... by Paris Django Winn Maisha T. , 223 – 48 . Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage . Virno Paolo . 2004 . A Grammar of the Multitude: For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life . Translated by Bertoletti Isabella Cascaito James Casson Andrea . Los Angeles : Semiotext(e...

... their generality.” Michael Hardt and 596 The South Atlantic Quarterly • Against the Day • Summer 2012 Antonio Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2004), 105. Virno believes that “the dividing line between Work and Action [poiesis...

... . Duty Free Art . London and New York : Verso . Virno Paolo . 2004 . Grammar of the Multitude: For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life . Translated by Bertoletti Isabella Cascaito James Casson Andrea . Los Angeles, CA : Semiotext(e) . The South...

...”) . Página/12 , December 8 . www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-235202-2013-12-08.html . Virno Paolo . 2004 . A Grammar of the Multitude: For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life . Translated by Bertoletti Isabella Cascaito James Casson Andrea . Los Angeles : Semiotext(e...

...—are replaced by terms such as intu- ition, adaptability, creativity, complexity, and play. Perhaps unexpectedly, this very assertion characterizes much of cultural theory as well, most clearly, perhaps, in Paolo Virno’s recent contention that the world economy today is “post-Taylorist...

... for life. c) The caravan as insurgency, transforming the grammar of the multitude (Virno 2003) to a di”erent rhythm than the trans and postmodern struggles of the post-Marxist disco, insurgencies more at the rhythm of the Pachakuti outlined by Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar (2011). These are struggles...

... : Duke University Press . Vaughn Adam . 2016 . “Human Impact Has Pushed Earth into the Anthropocene, Scientists Say.” Guardian , January 7 . www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/07/human-impact-has-pushed-earth-into-the-anthropocene-scientists-say . Virno Paolo . 2004...

... . sommovimentonazioanale.noblogs.org/post/2014/07/18/social-strike-gender-strike/ . Virno Paolo . 2004 . A Grammar of the Multitude: For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life . Translated by Bertoletti Isabella Cascaito James Casson Andrea . Los Angeles : Semiotext(e) . ...

... John Katseli Louka T. , 37 – 50 . London : Ashgate . Virno Paolo . 2004 . A Grammar of the Multitude . New York : Semiotext(e) . Wilson Japhy Swyngedouw Erik . 2014 . The Post-Political and Its Discontents . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press . Zakaria...

... into capitalist processes of accumulation such that labor ceases to be a special, separate practice distinct from other human activities. As Paolo Virno puts it, under post-Fordism, there is not a clean, well-defined threshold separating labor time from non- labor time. 6 Instead, that distinction between labor...

... strategy through which capital will enact a simultaneous restructuring and counterrevolution on postindustrial urban centers. In contrast to a strictly violent and suppressive movement, Paolo Virno defines counterrevolution as revolution in reverse, . . . an impetuous innovation of modes of production...

... . Thacker Eugene . 2004 . Biomedia . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Thurtle Phillip . 2007 . The Emergence of Genetic Rationality: Space, Time, and Information in American Biological Science, 1870–1920 . Seattle : University of Washington Press . Virno Paolo...

... by philoso- phers—I’m thinking primarily of Giorgio Agam- ben, Roberto Esposito, Antonio Negri, and Paolo Virno—whose nationality tends to be associated, at least in the Anglo-­American imagination, pre...

... . Research and Destroy (blog) , June 14 . www.researchanddestroy.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/the-wreck-of-the-plaza/ . Trenkle Norbert . 2014 . “Value and Crisis: Basic Questions.” In Marxism and the Critique of Value , edited by Larsen Neil , 1 – 15 . Chicago : MCM' . Virno...

... . www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-shulamith-firestone-preface/ . Virno Paolo . 2004 . A Grammar of the Multitude . Translated by Bertoletti Isabella Cascaito James Casson Andrea . Los Angeles : Semiotext(e) . Weeks Kathi . 1998 . Constituting Feminist Subjects...

... is not reducible to a merely economic activity, since production (poiesis) itself incorporates the typical features of political action (praxis): to act in unison, performativity, relational and deliberative activity, and ability to choose between alternative possibilities (Virno 2008). On the other hand...