Maurizio Lazzarato, "What possibilities presently exist in the public sphere?"
"Labour tends to be expressed through the powers of desire, the powers of thought, and the application of generic human faculties: language, memory, aesthetic and ethical competencies and the ability of abstraction and learning. Thus, from a formal point of view, labour does not exclusively produce commodity-objects but also social relations, forms of life, and modes of subjectivation."
"The new forms of action are not directed toward universality but singularization; they do not operate toward a general re-organization, but rather toward a transversality that tries to determine the passages and translations among different forms of life and behaviors."