Paolo Virno is an Italian philosopher, semiologist, and activist. A prominent figure in the tradition of Italian workerist thought, he teaches at the University of Rome and is the author of An Essay on Negation, The Idea of World, and numerous other works. Arianna Bove is an independent philosophy researcher and translator, and cofounder of generation-online.org. She has translated works by Althusser, Foucault, Negri, Bifo, and Virno, among others.

• 1. The Trouble with Abundance1.1 A Surplus of Potential1.2 Aristotle vs the School of Megara1.3 To have ‘dynamis’1.4 Misunderstandings1.5 Genealogy of impotence2. The Art of Suffering2.1 How to Weather the Winds of Fate2.2 The Actions of Sufferers2.3 Welcoming, Withdrawing, Adhering, Resisting2.4 The Collapse of Reception2.5 A menage a trois3. Omissions and Renunciations3.1 Negative Actions3.2. Proclaiming a State of Impotence3.3 The Faculty to Suspend3.4 On Limit3.5 Omitting Omissions, Renouncing Renunciations3.6 Political-theological Note4. Two Kinds of Habit4.1 Modes of Possession4.2 The ever-present in-between4.3 Managing or Using Potential4.4 Civil War5. An Incumbent Infinity5.1. Archaic Representations5.2. The Misadventures of Use Grappling with Boundlessness5.3 The Primacy of Relation5.4. Action comes last5.5. From Task to Performance5.6. Physiognomic Gloss6. Institutions6.1 Provisional Moral (of the Story)6.2 The Good Government of Infinity6.3 The Ambivalence of the Institution: an Exercise of Use and a Usable Thing6.4 Techniques, Experiments, Ideas6.5 The Subversion of Hexis-management6.6 On the Institutional Meaning of Renunciation6.7 Endgame

Paolo Virno is an Italian philosopher, semiologist, and activist. A prominent figure in the tradition of Italian workerist thought, he teaches at the University of Rome and is the author of An Essay on Negation, The Idea of World, and numerous other works. Arianna Bove is an independent philosophy researcher and translator, and cofounder of generation-online.org. She has translated works by Althusser, Foucault, Negri, Bifo, and Virno, among others.

• 1. The Trouble with Abundance1.1 A Surplus of Potential1.2 Aristotle vs the School of Megara1.3 To have ‘dynamis’1.4 Misunderstandings1.5 Genealogy of impotence2. The Art of Suffering2.1 How to Weather the Winds of Fate2.2 The Actions of Sufferers2.3 Welcoming, Withdrawing, Adhering, Resisting2.4 The Collapse of Reception2.5 A menage a trois3. Omissions and Renunciations3.1 Negative Actions3.2. Proclaiming a State of Impotence3.3 The Faculty to Suspend3.4 On Limit3.5 Omitting Omissions, Renouncing Renunciations3.6 Political-theological Note4. Two Kinds of Habit4.1 Modes of Possession4.2 The ever-present in-between4.3 Managing or Using Potential4.4 Civil War5. An Incumbent Infinity5.1. Archaic Representations5.2. The Misadventures of Use Grappling with Boundlessness5.3 The Primacy of Relation5.4. Action comes last5.5. From Task to Performance5.6. Physiognomic Gloss6. Institutions6.1 Provisional Moral (of the Story)6.2 The Good Government of Infinity6.3 The Ambivalence of the Institution: an Exercise of Use and a Usable Thing6.4 Techniques, Experiments, Ideas6.5 The Subversion of Hexis-management6.6 On the Institutional Meaning of Renunciation6.7 Endgame

Paolo Virno is an Italian philosopher, semiologist, and activist. A prominent figure in the tradition of Italian workerist thought, he teaches at the University of Rome and is the author of An Essay on Negation, The Idea of World, and numerous other works. Arianna Bove is an independent philosophy researcher and translator, and cofounder of generation-online.org. She has translated works by Althusser, Foucault, Negri, Bifo, and Virno, among others.

• 1. The Trouble with Abundance1.1 A Surplus of Potential1.2 Aristotle vs the School of Megara1.3 To have ‘dynamis’1.4 Misunderstandings1.5 Genealogy of impotence2. The Art of Suffering2.1 How to Weather the Winds of Fate2.2 The Actions of Sufferers2.3 Welcoming, Withdrawing, Adhering, Resisting2.4 The Collapse of Reception2.5 A menage a trois3. Omissions and Renunciations3.1 Negative Actions3.2. Proclaiming a State of Impotence3.3 The Faculty to Suspend3.4 On Limit3.5 Omitting Omissions, Renouncing Renunciations3.6 Political-theological Note4. Two Kinds of Habit4.1 Modes of Possession4.2 The ever-present in-between4.3 Managing or Using Potential4.4 Civil War5. An Incumbent Infinity5.1. Archaic Representations5.2. The Misadventures of Use Grappling with Boundlessness5.3 The Primacy of Relation5.4. Action comes last5.5. From Task to Performance5.6. Physiognomic Gloss6. Institutions6.1 Provisional Moral (of the Story)6.2 The Good Government of Infinity6.3 The Ambivalence of the Institution: an Exercise of Use and a Usable Thing6.4 Techniques, Experiments, Ideas6.5 The Subversion of Hexis-management6.6 On the Institutional Meaning of Renunciation6.7 Endgame