Antonio Negri and the discourse on poverty – on two motifs in Kairòs, Alma Venus, Multitudo.

In opposition to any notion of poverty as privation, or 'bare life', Negrian discourse poses the problem of poverty as a precondition for innovation and self-constitution, that is, for the critical appropriation of the immeasurable. This appropriation, as depicted in Kairòs, Alma Venus, and Multitudo, occurs in the event of adequation, when the monstrous store of potentia (immanent to poverty) exposes itself to the void in the projection of the 'to-come'. This essay seeks in turn to resolve a series of vexing questions and problems concerning the function of poverty, love, and the monstrous in the Negrian constitution of reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]