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After the Future

By: Franco Bifo Berardi

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After the Future explores a century-long obsession with the concept of the "future," starting with Marinetti's "Futurist Manifesto," tracing it through the punk movement of the early 70s, and into the media revolution of the 90s. The future, Bifo argues, has come and gone, the concept has lost its usefulness. Now it's our responsibility to decide what comes next.

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1849350604

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Breathing

Chaos and Poetry

By: Franco "Bifo" Berardi

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Breathing

Chaos and Poetry

By: Franco "Bifo" Berardi

The increasingly chaotic rhythm of our respiration, and the sense of suffocation that grows everywhere: an essay on poetical therapy. Since the hopeful days of the Occupy movement, many things have changed in the respiration of the world, and we have entered a cycle of spasm, despair, and chaos. Breathing is a book about the increasingly chaotic rhythm of our respiration, about the sense of suffocation that grows everywhere. “I can't breathe.” These words panted by Eric Garner before dying, strangled by a police officer on the streets of Staten Island, capture perfectly catching the overall sentiment of our time. In Breathing, Franco "Bifo" Berardi comes back to the subject that was the core of his 2011 book, The Uprising: the place of poetry in the relations between language, capital, and possibility. In The Uprising, he focuses on poetry as an anticipation of the trend toward abstraction that led to the present form of financial capitalism. In Breathing, he tries to envision poetry as the excess of the field of signification, as the premonition of a possible harmony inscribed in the present chaos. The Uprising was a genealogical diagnosis. Breathing is an essay on poetical therapy. How we deal with chaos, as we know that those who fight against chaos will be defeated, because chaos feeds upon war? How do we deal with suffocation? Is there a way out from the corpse of financial capitalism?

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MIT Press

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1635900387

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9781635900385

The Third Unconscious

By: Franco Bifo Berardi

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The Third Unconscious

By: Franco Bifo Berardi

A wide-ranging exploration of the present, and the future, of the Unconcious The Unconscious knows no time, it has no before-and-after, it does not have a history of its own. Yet, it does not always remain the same. Different political and economic conditions transform the way in which the Unconscious emerges within the "psychosphere" of society. In the early 20th century, Freud characterized the Unconscious as the dark side of the well-order framework of Progress and Reason. At the end of the past century, Deleuze and Guattari described it as a laboratory: the magmatic force ceaselessly bringing to the fore new possibilities of imagination. Today, at a time of viral pandemics and in the midst of the catastrophic collapse of capitalism, the Unconscious has begun to emerge in yet another form. In this book, Franco 'Bifo' Berardi vividly portraits the form in which the Unconscious will make itself manifest for decades to come, and the challenges that it will pose to our possibilities of political action, poetic imagination, and therapy.

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1839762535

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Futurability

The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility

By: Francesco Berardi

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Futurability

The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility

By: Francesco Berardi

A comprehensive philosophy of contemporary life and politics, by one of the sharpest critics of the present We live in an age of impotence. Stuck between global war and global finance, between identity and capital, we seem incapable of producing the radical change that is so desperately needed. Meanwhile the struggle for dominance over the world is a battlefield with only two protagonists: the forces of neoliberalism on one side, and the new order led by the likes of Trump and Putin on the other. How can we imagine a new emancipatory vision, capable of challenging the deadlock of the present? Is there still a way to disentangle ourselves from a global order that shapes our politics as well as our imagination? In this inspired work, renowned Italian theorist Franco Berardi tackles this question through a grounded yet visionary analysis of three concepts fundamental to his understanding of the present: possibility, potency, and power. Characterizing possibility as content, potency as energy, and power as form, Berardi suggests that the road to emancipation unspools from an awareness that the field of the possible is only limited, and not created, by the power structures behind it. Other futures and other worlds are always already inscribed within the present, despite power’s attempt to keep them invisible. Overcoming the temptation to give in to despair or nostalgia, Berardi proposes the notion of “futurability” as a way to remind us that even within the darkness of our current crisis a better world lies dormant. In this volume, Berardi presents the most systematic account to date of his philosophy, making a crucial theoretical contribution to the present and future struggle

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1784787469

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Bifo - Franco Berardi

transversal(dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 094)

By: Franco Berardi

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Bifo - Franco Berardi

transversal(dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 094)

By: Franco Berardi

In diesem Notizbuch reflektiert der Medientheoretiker und Medienaktivist Bifo – Franco Berardi die Vorhaben der dOCUMENTA (13) auf Basis seiner persönlichen Überzeugung, dass sich die derzeitige Krise der Wirtschaft und Weltgesellschaft als tödliche Falle für die menschliche Entwicklung erweisen muss, sofern nicht Kultur und Lebensstil auf den vorherrschenden Trend der »Erschöpfung« (physischer Ressourcen, mentaler Energien und sozialer Organismen) reagieren werden. Der Kunst kommt dabei eine entscheidende Rolle zu. Künstler erkennen und artikulieren häufig den erschöpften Zustand der Welt in seiner ganzen Tragik: mit Genügsamkeit statt Akkumulation und Freundschaft statt Rivalität kann der Implosion des Finanzkapitalismus für die Schaffung eines neuen Europas 2.0 mit »Tausch- und Solidaritätsinstitutionen anstelle von Konkurrenz- und Gierinstitutionen« entgegengewirkt werden. Projekte und Entwürfe etwa von Doug Ashford, Man Ray, William Kentridge, AND AND AND oder Gustav Metzger werden genannt und begleiten den Text ebenso wie ein faksimilierter Brief des zur dOCUMENTA (13) eingeladenen Künstlers Kai Althoff an die Künstlerische Leiterin Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev mit der Bitte um Befreiung »von der erschöpfenden Aufgabe seiner Mitwirkung«. Bifo – Franco Berardi (*1949) lehrt Medienästhetik an der European School of Social Imagination in San Marino.

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3775750223

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Franco Berardi Bifo

Ironische Ethik(dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 027)

By: Franco Berardi

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Ironische Ethik(dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 027)

By: Franco Berardi

Bifos Essay ist eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit den gegenwärtigen politischen Zuständen, die in seinem Heimatland Italien herrschen, das seit nunmehr drei Jahrzehnten unter dem medialen und politischen Einfluss des Premierministers und Medienmagnaten Silvio Berlusconi steht. Der Autor entwirft ein Bild des »Berlusconilandes«, in dem die italienische Sprache, ihre kollektive Imagination und ihre Sinnlichkeit verdorben worden sind und die Politik des »Mafia-Medien-Moguls« wie ein »Psycho-Gift« wirkt, das langsam alles zerstört. Fernsehen und Werbung werden immer pornografischer und obszöner, was in der Gesellschaft zu einer Form von falschen Lusterwartungen, Selbsthass und aggressiver Scham geführt hat. Bifo beschreibt den aggressiven Wettbewerb zwischen Macho-Männern, deren größte Lust im Beschmutzen des weiblichen Körpers besteht, Ausdruck ihrer umfassenden Verachtung der Frau. Als »Therapie« schlägt der Autor eine Ethik vor, die nicht moralisch oder politisch ist, sondern vom Skeptizismus ausgehend zur Reaktivierung der Empathie als einem Weg zur Lust und zum »Großen Mitgefühl« führt, das ein politischer Zustand ist. Der Autor, Medientheoretiker und Medienaktivist Bifo – Franco Berardi (*1949), Gründer von Radio Alice in den 1970er Jahren, lehrt Medienästhetik an der von ihm mit ins Leben gerufenen European School of Social Imagination in San Marino. Sprache: Deutsch/Englisch

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Franco Berardi Bifo

Ironische Ethik(dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 027)

By: Franco Berardi

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Ironische Ethik(dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 027)

By: Franco Berardi

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Franco Berardi Bifo

Ironische Ethik(dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 027)

By: Franco Berardi

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Ironische Ethik(dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 027)

By: Franco Berardi

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A Thousand Little Machines: A/traverso and the Movement of ’77

By: Franco Berardi

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A Thousand Little Machines: A/traverso and the Movement of ’77

By: Franco Berardi

In 1977 youth revolts spectacular in their intensity, creativity and violence would send shockwaves throughout Italian society. These rebellions, belonging to the autonomia movement, were characterised by a mass refusal of wage-labour and powered by novel experiments in communication, in particular the printed word. Hundreds of revolutionary newspapers known as ‘movement sheets’ would circulate Italy during those years, acting as little machines to produce political subjectivity. This book contains the recollections of the autonomist militant, philosopher and media theorist Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi on autonomia and the tumultuous events of ’77, told through the pages of A/traverso, the Bolognese movement sheet he produced with others between 1975 - 1981. In texts translated into English for the first time, presented alongside extensive archival material and stunning photographs, this book explores the subversion, exuberance and joy of the movement of ’77, while raising important questions about the role of creative collectivity and experimental communication for militants today. Texts by Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, Ryan Duffy, Dante Philp, Nick Thoburn, Jamila Squire & Seth Wheeler. Foreword by Bobby Gillespie, Primal Scream. Translated by Ivana Bevilacqua, Matthew Lee and Lukasz Risso. Cover design & layout by Tom Greenwood. Internal design by Tom Greenwood, Jamila Squire & Seth Wheeler. Edited by Jamila Squire & Seth Wheeler. Photos by Tano D’Amico, Enrico Scuro and Uliano Lucas.

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Agit Press

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1838485198

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Félix Guattari

Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography

By: Franco Berardi Bifo

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Félix Guattari

Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography

By: Franco Berardi Bifo

Félix Guattari: Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography, by Franco Berardi 'Bifo', originates in the author's close personal acquaintance with Félix Guattari's writings and political engagement in the context of Berardi Bifo's activism in Italian autonomist politics and his ongoing collaboration with Guattari in the 1970s and 1980s. This biography gains distinction from its keen insight into Guattari's political practice and from a precise understanding of how this practice relates to the theoretical and conceptual aspects of Guattari's writings, alone and with Gilles Deleuze. Thanks to an approach at once personal and theoretically well informed, Bifo's biography provides a clear and accessible introduction to Guattari's works. This edition also includes a critical introduction and a 2005 interview with Bifo on a range of topics relating Guattari's works to the current political conjuncture.

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0230584489

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After the Future

By: Franco Berardi

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After the Future

By: Franco Berardi

Beginning with the futurism of F.T. Marinetti and the worldwide race towards a new and highly mechanised society that defined the 'century of progress', highly respected media activist Franco Berardi traces the genesis of future-oriented thought through the punk movement of the early 1970s and into the media revolution of the 1990s. Cyberculture, the last truly utopian vision of the future, ended in a clash, leaving behind an ever-growing system of virtual life and actual death, virtual knowledge and actual war. The future, Berardi argues, has come and gone.

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1849350590

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The Second Coming

By: Franco Berardi

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The Second Coming

By: Franco Berardi

We have entered the gateway to the apocalypse. This theological concept is the best metaphor to describe the world in which we are already living. Chaos is all around us: political folly, economical delirium, ecological catastrophe, intellectual cynicism, technological simulation of life. This is what Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi suggests in this wry, dark, disconcerting but also brilliant and invigorating journey through the main events that we have witnessed in recent years. One century after the Communist revolution, the very idea that the world could be changed for the better seems dead once and for all. Every time that a new change occurs nowadays, it seems to be a change for the worse. But the fact that nothing can save us any more shouldn’t be seen as a form of fatality or a reason for surrender. On the contrary, if our world is dead, then the space is open for another to appear – a world where apocalypse can shake us out of our zombie-like contemporary existence. The second coming of Communism will have nothing to do with 1917. Apocalypse has to be conceived of as a metaphor, and Communism is a metaphor too: the metaphor of the possible deployment of the potentials of the mind.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509534857

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Félix Guattari

Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography

By: Franco Berardi Bifo

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Félix Guattari

Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography

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A Thousand Little Machines: A/traverso and the Movement of ’77

By: Franco Berardi

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Quit Everything

Interpreting Depression

By: Franco Berardi

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Quit Everything

Interpreting Depression

By: Franco Berardi

Analyses the current wave of depression, or "desertion", that is causing more and more people to abandon hope and desire in a world where social, political and environment collapse seems inevitable. Depression is rife amongst young people the world over. But what if this isn’t depression as we know it, but instead a reaction to the chaos and collapse of a seemingly unchangeable and unliveable future? In Quit Everything, Franco Berardi argues that this “depression” is actually conscious or unconscious withdrawal of psychological energy and a dis-investment of desire that he defines instead as “desertion”. A desertion from political participation, from the daily grind of capitalism, from the brutal reality of climate collapse, and from a society which offers nothing but chaos and pain. Berardi analyses why this desertion is on the rise and why more people are quitting everything in our age of political impotence and the rise of the far-right, asking if we can find some political hope in desertion amongst the ruins of a world on the brink of collapse.

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Watkins Media Limited

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191567252X

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Futurability

The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility

By: Franco Berardi

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Futurability

The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility

By: Franco Berardi

We live in an age of impotence. Stuck between global war and global finance, between identity and capital, we seem to be incapable of producing that radical change that is so desperately needed. Is there still a way to disentangle ourselves from a global order that shapes our politics as well as our imagination? In his most systematic book to date, renowned Italian theorist Franco Berardi Bifo tackles this question through a solid yet visionary analysis of the three fundamental concepts of Possibility, Potency, and Power. Overcoming any temptation of giving in to despair or nostalgia, Berardi proposes the notion of Futurability as a way to remind us that even within the darkness of our current crisis, still lies dormant the horizon of possibility.

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1784787450

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Heroes

Mass Murder and Suicide

By: Franco Berardi

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Heroes

Mass Murder and Suicide

By: Franco Berardi

What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? Through an exhilarating mix of philosophical and psychoanalytical theory and reportage - from the suicide epidemic in Korea to the wave of American mass murders - the prominent Italian thinker Franco Berardi Bifo traces the social roots of the mental malaise of our age. His darkest and most unsettling book to date, Berardi proposes dystopian irony as a strategy to disentangle ourselves from the deadly embrace of the neoliberalism.

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1781687528

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