Maurizio Lazzarato

Maurizio Lazzarato is a philosopher, expert on Gabriel Tarde, co-founder of the magazine Multitudes, who has been specializing in the analysis of cognitive capitalism, and its discontents, hence his work on the P2P-concept of Multitudes, the coordination format in political and economic resistance, etc.. His work is historically situated in the Italian movement of 'autonomous Marxism'.

Short French-language profile with links to his books at [1]

Some of his writings are located here:

• Struggle, Event, Media
• European Cultural Tradition and the New Forms of Production and Circulation of Knowledge
• Multitude and Working class: Maurizio Lazzarato interviews Paolo Virno

General Intellect: Towards an Inquiry into Immaterial Labour http://www.emery.archive.mcmail.com/public_html/immaterial/lazzarat.html

From Biopower to Biopolitics (pdf file) http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/csisp/papers/lazzarato_biopolitics.pdf

Maurizio Lazzarato: Dialogism and Poliphony http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/csisp/papers/lazzarato_dialogism.pdf