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Heroes
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.
After the Future
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.
Futurability
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 the 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 tackles this question through a solid yet visionary analysis of the three fundamental concepts of Possibility, Potency, and Power. Characterizing Possibility as the content, Potency as the energy, and Power as the form, Berardi suggests that the road to emancipation unravels from the awareness that the field of the possible is only limited, and not created, by the power structures that implement it. Other futures and other worlds are always already inscribed within the present, despite power's attempt at keeping them invisible. 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 lies dormant the horizon of possibility.
Franco Berardi Bifo
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 aggr...
Breathing
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 ...
Bifo - 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 Rivali...
And
The changes taking place in our aesthetic and emotional sensibility: a deep mutation in the psychosphere, caused by semio-capitalism. Franco “Bifo” Berardi's newest book analyzes the contemporary changes taking place in our aesthetic and emotional sensibility—changes the author claims are the result of semio-capitalism's capturing of the inner resources of the subjective process: our experience of time, our sensibility, the way we relate to each other, and our ability to imagine a future. Precarization and fractalization of labor have provoked a deep mutation in the psychosphere, and this can be seen in the rise of psychopathologies such as post-traumatic stress disorder, autism, panic...
The Second Coming
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. Bu...
Franco Berardi Bifo
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 aggr...
Breathing
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 ...
