# When the Word Becomes Flesh

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- Book: [When the Word Becomes Flesh](https://www.bookquiver.com/paolo-virno/when-the-word-becomes-flesh) ([When the Word Becomes Flesh.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/paolo-virno/when-the-word-becomes-flesh.md))
- Authors: [Paolo Virno](https://www.bookquiver.com/paolo-virno), [Giuseppina Mecchia](https://www.bookquiver.com/giuseppina-mecchia)
- Publisher: semiotext_e
- ISBN: 978-15-8435-094-1
- Pages: 264
- Published: 2015-05-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Virno's meditation on speech as an intrinsically political practice mediating between biological invariants and changing historical determinations. Originally published in Italian in 2002, When the Word...