Re: AUT: questions on philology, translation, Agamben

["auskadi@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <auskadi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nate

> I have some questions...
>
> First, does anyone have the Italian and/or French editions of this
> book? If so, can anyone tell me what the phrase "generic essence" (in
> the final paragraph excerpted here), is in Italian and/or French?

Maybe Arriana can answer that one as I was reading this (below) on the
GO site yesterday. Negri's discussion of the commons is very
interesting, seemingly contradictory at first glance but very useful in
wondering where the commons as promoted by many in the Floss world for
example, and the others like Lessig et al, sits in terms of altenatives.
But re

> "generic essence"

Maybe this pasage from Paolo Virno is an alternative translation. I know
in Castellano essencia is essence .... Arriana sems to treat it as
species being ... which you refer to later .....

?Public Sphere, labour, multitude. Strategies of resistance in Empire.?
Seminar organised by Officine Precarie in Pisa, with Toni Negri and
Paolo Virno. Coordinator: Marco Bascetta. [5th February 2003].
http://www.generation-online.org/t/common.htm

Paolo Virno: "Marx mentions the common twice: in the Early Writings: as
esistenza generica [tr.: perhaps Italian translation of common
species-being], where generic means at the level, up to the standards of
the human species. In the Grundrisse, in the section on the general
intellect, he matures his former notion into that of the social
individual. Social individual sounds like an oxymoron, but must be seen
as the presupposed common that makes also singularities possible. If the
multitude is the ensemble of individuated singularities, it can only be
conceived if they have behind them a common.....


Other than this phrase what else is troubling you about the

> excerpt from Agamben, _The Coming Community_, which I don't pretend to
> understand. It's from pages 78-81.


Martin


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