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Antonio Negri was an Italian political philosopher known as one of the most prominent theorists of autonomism, as well as for his co-authorship of Empire with Michael Hardt. Born in Padua, Italy, Negri became a professor of political philosophy at the University of Padua, where he taught state and constitutional theory. Negri founded the Potere Operaio group in 1969 and was a leading member of Aut…
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Born 1 August 1933 · Died 16 December 2023 · Q310341
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Died 2023-12-16.
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“No trabalho produtivo imaterial, o instrumento é o cérebro.”
“O trabalhador se apresenta, de fato, cada vez mais como portador de capacidades imateriais de produção.”
“Vocês pensam, classicamente, em uma transformação do mundo não somente política, também ética e cultural.”
“Mentor intelectual do grupo terrorista Brigadas Vermelhas, que vivia exilado em Paris e voltou à Itália para cumprir o restante da pena a que estava condenado.”
Negri and Michael Hardt published Assembly
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Career landmark: Participated in manifiesto el aa este a bueno (tournament / event).
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Negri published Spinoza: Politics and Postmodernity, a collections of essays on Spinoza and his contemporary relevance to philosophy and political theory, translated into English by William McCuaig
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Such as the rise of right-wing populism, Occupy Wall Street, the automation of work, and the digital economy
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Negri completed the book Commonwealth, the final in a trilogy that began in 2000 with Empire and continued with Multitude in 2004, co-authored with Michael Hardt
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Having written some of his most influential works while behind bars
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Much of Hardt and Negri's project appears dead
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After a plea-bargain that reduced his prison time from 30 to 13 years, he returned to Italy to serve the end of his sentence
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Returned to Italy to serve out his sentence, hoping to raise awareness of the status of hundreds of other political exiles from Italy
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Having fled to France, he was sentenced in absentia to 30 years in prison
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Four years after his arrest and while he was still in prison awaiting trial, Negri was elected to the Italian legislature as a member for the Radical Party
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1983–1987).
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And was a leading member of Autonomia Operaia, and published highly influential books, including Empire and Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
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Together with Oreste Scalzone and Franco Piperno, Negri was one of the founders of the group Potere Operaio (Workers' Power) and the operaismo (lit
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To found Classe Operaia, and he contributed to the journal as a writer and editor
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And remained a member until 1963, while at the same time becoming more and more engaged throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s in Marxist movements
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When working at the Nahsonim kibbutz in central Israel
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Born 1933-08-01.
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