Editor: Michael Hardt 1999 EditorTool Editormap M. Lazzarato Editormap L. Blissett Editormap M. Hardt Editormap HU Reck Editormap E. Rullani Editormap I. Vantaggiato collaborative map Editor: Michael Hardt Philosopher Michael Hardt is Assistant Professor of Literature (Ph.D., Washington, 1990). He is author of Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy (1993) and co-author with Antonio Negri of Labor of Dionysus: A Critique of the State-form (1994). He is co-editor with Paolo Virno of Radical Thought in Italy (1996). He has recently completed with Antonio Negri, Empire (Harvard, 1999). He is interested in modernism and realism in 20th-century literature. keyword 31 - nonlavoro | nonwork | Editor: Michael Hardt In the paradigm of immaterial labor, the working day is no longer an adequate measure for the production of value because, for all forms of immaterial labor, the division between the time of production and the time of life becomes blurred. Throughout the day (and even in our dreams?) we are constantly employing and perfecting our communication skills, our affective skills, and our knowledges. The barriers thus decline that used to divide work from leisure, or rather, work from nonwork. The realm of nonwork includes all of our activities outside of wage labor; it is the realm proper to desire and desiring-production. If we were to succeed in establishing a system whereby labor is separated from income, such as an existence income or a citizenship income, then we would be forced to question our work ethic and our moral attachments to work, and re-evaluate the social value and productivity of nonwork. The expansion of the realm of nonwork and the affirmation of social creativity and production outside of wage labor is a political goal appropriate to the paradigm of immaterial labor.