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By placing the social dimension of labour at the base of the discourse of life, this book engages with the work of key intellectual figures and reconstructs a critical genealogy of the notion of biopolitics from the point of view of twentieth and twenty-first century Italy.

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Introduction: The Biopolitical and Its Biopolitics Factory Councils, Fordism, and Gramsci: a Workers´ Biopolitics and Its Demise The Personal is (Bio)Political! Italian Marxist Neo-feminism and its Historical Trajectory Pasolini and the Politics of Life of Neocapitalism 1968-1977: the Movement and its Biopolitical Élan A Biopolitical Multitude and its Planet: Antonio Negri and Paolo Virno

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ANDREA RIGHI Assistant Professor of Italian and Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez.

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