La biopolitica nel pensiero di Antonio Negri. Dalla “tendenza” all’eccedenza affermativa della vita

This essay reflects on the reception and the use of biopolitics in Antonio Negri's work. Within certain essays that Negri wrote in the Seventies, through his attempt of exceeding some Marxist categories, we can find the premises of a possible encounter with the biopolitical paradigm. Negri finds Michel Foucault during the Seventies. Reading the pages of the French philosopher, he discovers the invasiveness of contemporary capitalism and the new form of power. Then, thanks to the work of Gilles Deleuze, he exceeds Foucault, conceiving the immanence of life, discerning from biopolitics and biopower, imagining a subject that represents bios affirmation: the multitude