birth_place era school_tradition influences main_interests birth_date article_title name region
naples 20th-century philosophy autonomist marxism gilles deleuze , gabriel tarde political subjectivity , materialism philosophy , semiotics , post-fordism , analysis of 1952 paolo virno
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paolo virno

paolo virno -lrb- born 1952 -rrb- is an italian philosopher , semiologist and a figurehead for the italian marxist movement .
implicated in belonging to illegal social movements during the 1960s and 1970s , virno was arrested and jailed in 1979 , accused of belonging to the red brigades .
he spent several years in prison before finally being acquitted , after which he organized the publication `` luogo comune '' -lrb- italian for `` commonplace '' -rrb- in order to vocalize the political ideas he developed during his imprisonment .
virno currently teaches philosophy at the university of rome .
