Product Description: This edition of Open investigates the precariousness of the artist, both culturally and socially. The precarious city and the precariousness of public space are duly considered.

Product Description: The influential Italian thinker offers three essays in the political philosophy of language.

Product Description: Over the past several decades, Italian revolutionary politics has offered a model for new forms of political thinking. Radical Thought in Italy continues that tradition by providing an original view of the potential for a radical democratic politics today that speaks not only to the Italian situation but also to a broadly international context...read more

Product Description: Globalization is forcing us to rethink some of the categories -- such as "the people" -- that traditionally have been associated with the now eroding state. Italian political thinker Paolo Virno argues that the category of "multitude," elaborated by Spinoza and for the most part left fallow since the seventeenth century, is a far better tool to analyze contemporary issues than the Hobbesian concept of "people," favored by classical political philosophy...read more