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Paolo Virno is one of todays most influential philosophers one of the most respected exponents of postFordism Along with Toni Negri and Franco Bifo Berardi he is one of those Italian intellectuals who are known abroad under the name Italian Theory or postworkerist thinkers Today he teaches philosophy at the Università di Roma 3 but during the late 1970s he was arrested and imprisoned for about four years after an antiterrorism raid targeted the extraparliamentary group Potere Operaio which Virno belonged to