... 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...

... within human nature but a reflection on the common as a project that requires the interplay of disparate beings, not all of which are human. Post-Fordist Anthropogenesis Virno was a member of the workerist group Potere Operaio (Workers’ Power) until 1973, when the organization dissolved...

... and Anthropogenesis: Philosophical Anthropology and the Ends of Man .” South Atlantic Quarterly 116 , no. 2 : 257 – 73 . doi: 10.1215/00382876-3829390 . Reggio Marco . 2016 . “La resistenza viene prima: Gli animali di Michael Hardt” (“The Resistance Comes First: The Animals of Michael Hardt...

... . “Anthropogenesis: Origins and Endings in the Anthropocene.” Theory, Culture & Society . tcs.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/04/29/0263276415581021.abstract . Z-Man . n.d. www.darpa.mil/program/z-man (accessed November 16, 2015) . Elizabeth R. Johnson Reconsidering Mimesis: Freedom...

... of animality and the human openness to concealedness as the hiatus, within the human, between the human and the animal. Agamben’s conclusions are motivated by a particular interpretation of Dasein’s relation to animality in terms of anthropogenesis, that is, as the emergence of the human from...

... of anthropogenesis. Beyond Girard, the anthropologist Marcel Hénaff maintains that sacrifice is a characteristic apparatus of pastoral-agricultural societies that left behind the ways of hunter-gatherers, for whom divinity was permanently present in the interplay of checks and balances articulated in the hunting...

... philosophical anthropol- ogy to develop an account of the human as that animal that lacks a determi- nate milieu and is defined by an open and creative process of anthropogenesis (Read, this issue). For Virno, “human nature” and the “common” coincide, the historical development of the former defining...

... for such a new totalization of “nature and culture” or, more capaciously, nature and history. Such efforts have arrived too often at the problem of “modernity” and, in various progress narratives, indexing the particulars of ecological anthropogenesis to concrete developments. The era has been aligned...