Biopolitical labor and the new class composition (Desiring-production and living labor 2 – Hardt and Negri)

The article is committed to the aim of reconstruction of the notion ofimmaterial/biopolitical labor in the context of its affinities with Deleuze and Guattari’snotion of desiring-production. Hardt and Negri’s controversial thesis of theautonomization of biopolitical labor from capitalist command as the basis for thepolitical emancipation of the working class/multitude is also discussed and comparedwith Deleuze and Guattari’s vision of becoming-minoritarian as the only viableanti-capitalist politics.