Antonella Corsani is an Italian economist who teaches at the Sorbonne in Paris. She is a member of the editorial board of the journal Multitudes and one of the editors of the collective volumes "Toward a Cognitive Capitalism." As this essay demonstrates, her work focuses on the changing nature of labor in post-Fordist capitalism, particularly the phenomena of irregular or intermittent work, intellectual or immaterial labor, and the "feminization" of labor. Like many post-workerist thinkers, she takes a broadly global perspective on contemporary issues, combining French post-structuralist philosophy and feminism, Italian political economy, American ethnic and queer activism and post-colonial analysis, to construct a sophisticated theoretical paradigm for interpreting and intervening into current debates over subversive subjectivity and the organization of resistance to global capital.

Transfeminism is the encounter of the feminist movement with homosexual and post-colonial movements, influenced by post-workerism, which addresses the new relationship between capitalism and life, the “biopolitical turn of the economy” (Corsani 2007, 107). Production today requires knowledge, know-how, language, and affect--a new nature of labor within capitalism with a “feminine” face (108).