Labour, Life, and Biopolitics in the Work of Maurizio Lazzarato

This writing seeks to examine the way in which Maurizio Lazzarato elaborates the problem of labor and, with it, the notions of production and life between 1990 and 2006 in the light of the concept of biopolitics. To do this, first, I will analize the way in which, taking up some problems exposed by italian autonomism, the author introduces the need to rethink the notion of labor, elaborating, with Antonio Negri, the concept of immaterial labor. Then, I will move forward towards the twists that the author makes in the foucauldian concepts of life and biopolitics, incorporating contributions from Gabriel Tarde, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, to account for contemporary modes of production and extraction of value.