'Immaterial labour': Negri, Lazzarato and Hardt

Abstract

Antonio Negri, Maurizio Lazzarato and Michael Hardt have been proposing for more than one decade a new theory for the interpretation of the transformations we are presently undergoing. According to them, today we see the total affirmation of a historical impulse that emmerged from the passage of a feudal Europe to a modern one, which is the 'motivation' for an 'ethical existence' which "transforms itself into love for the future time". Such historical tendency would be called today the 'immaterial labour', a complete and radical transformation of work and production. This text tries to explore and present with a critical approach the bulk of those authors' theory.