Bioeconomy:

Economic paradigm that has as an object of exchange, accumulation and valorization, the vital faculties of human beings, first of all language and the ability to generate knowledge.
Attempt of total subsumption of life in capital.
Valorization and capitalist exploitation of general intellect.
Biopower mirror concept; dissemination of control devices on social activities in order to transform them into productive economic relations.

This is an ambitious work. Try to determine what could be understood as a new accumulation paradigm. Through a deep historical and theoretical analysis, which brings together from the classics (Marx, Schumpeter and Keynes), to the critical economic currents (Saffra, the regulators, Galbraith, Chandler) and more heterodox (such as Italian operaism and French), Andrea Fumagalli proposes a new critique of the political economy of transformed capitalism. A capitalism, called cognitive, in which the mutations of production, the primacy of financialization and the centrality of knowledge and information are tied with what definitely constitutes its basis: the exploitation of linguistic, cognitive and relational capacities of individuals Life itself put to work, at the price of an existence made precarious. That is why the author is not satisfied with an exhaustive analysis but it serves to argue the need for the right to income (basic income), to choose employment and working conditions (flexicurity) and to access and defend the common (commomfare). As always, however, the subversive becoming of these proposals depends on the ability of the precarious crowd to make their political power explicit. Andrea Fumagalli is a professor of political economy at the University of Pavia. Militant of Italian autonomy since the seventies, he is currently actively involved in the Uninomade, training and intellectual production experience anchored in the political initiatives of the movements. His intellectual trajectory is marked by the search for new conceptual tools that allow us to face the transformations of a capitalism that is increasingly darker. This is shown in his work on financialization, cognitive capitalism and job mutations: Il lavoro. Nuovo e vecchio sfruttamento (2006) and Finanza fai da te. Borsa e risparmi nel mercato globale (2001), both not yet published in Spanish.