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Timothy Campbell’s “Bíos, Immunity, Life: The Thought of Roberto Esposito” [pdf]. Those not familiar with Esposito’s work - (since it’s yet to be translated into English), but nevertheless following the discussions about biopolitics through Foucault, Agamben, Hardt and Negri, et al - will find it of interest, I think; as should those who want to explore Derrida’s discussions of auto-immunisation. [+]

In “Why Work on Rights? Citizenship, Welfare and Property in Empire and Beyond” [Theory & Event, 8:4, 2005], Scott Michaelsen and Scott Cutler Shershow argue that Hardt’s and Negri’s proposition of the three rights - the rights to global citizenship, guaranteed income and reappropriation of the means of production - which are said to give expression to the political power and teleology of the multitude at the conclusion of Empire is, as they put it, fundamentally flawed.