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
• From Biopower to Biopolitics (pdf file)
• Maurizio Lazzarato: Dialogism and Poliphony