>Well, no. In fact, the immateriality story doesn't "overlook" that
>at all. I don't know about Hardt and Negri but Virno talks about the
>simultaneity of all previous modes of work
I haven't read Virno - I was talking about H&N. As I wrote in my review of Empire <http://www.leftbusinessobserer.com/Empire.html>, you'd never know from reading the book that half the world's pop lives in the rural Third World, where the principal occupation is tilling the soil.
Doug