Breathing Chaos and Poetry (Volume 26) (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series (26)) by Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Hedi El Kholti Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2019 by Semiotext(E) ISBN-13: 978-1-63590-038-5, ISBN: 1-63590-038-7
"An analysis of contemporary semio-capitalism's overloading of subjectivity, leading to a deep mutation in the psychosphere.Franco "Bifo" Berardi's newest book is an analysis of changes our aesthetic and emotional sensibility has undergone recently -- all the result of semio-capitalism's capturing of the inner resources of the subjective process: our experience of time, our sensibility, our means of relating to each other, and our abilit ..."
Futurability(Reprint) The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility by Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Francesco Berardi Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2019 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-744-8, ISBN: 1-78478-744-2
"A comprehensive philosophy of contemporary life and politics, by one of the sharpest critics of the presentWe 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 ..."
And Phenomenology of the End (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents) by Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Sylvère Lotringer Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2015 by Semiotext(E) ISBN-13: 978-1-58435-170-2, ISBN: 1-58435-170-5
"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 ..."
The Uprising(1st Edition) On Poetry and Finance (Volume 14) (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series (14)) by Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Hedi El Kholti Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2012 by Semiotext(E) ISBN-13: 978-1-58435-112-2, ISBN: 1-58435-112-8
" The Uprising is an Autonomist manifesto for today's precarious times, and a rallying cry in the face of the catastrophic and irreversible crisis that neoliberalism and the financial sphere have established over the globe. In his newest book, Franco "Bifo" Berardi argues that the notion of economic recovery is complete mythology. The coming years will inevitably ..."
(Reprint) [(Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide)] [Author: Francesco Berardi] published on (February, 2015) by Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Francesco Berardi Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2015 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78168-578-5, ISBN: 1-78168-578-9
"What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? In his most unsettling book to date, Franco “Bifo” Berardi embarks on an exhilarating journey through philosophy, psychoanalysis and current events, searching for the social roots of the mental malaise of our age. Spanning an array of horrors – the Aurora “Joker” killer; Anders Breivik; American school massacres; the suicide epidemic in Korea and Japan; and the recent spate ..."
The Third Unconscious The Psychosphere in the Viral Age (Hardback) by FrancoBifoBerardi Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2021 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-83976-253-6, ISBN: 1-83976-253-5
"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 ..."
"After the Future explores our century-long obsession with the concept of "the future." Beginning with F. T. Marinetti's "Futurist Manifesto" and the worldwide race toward a new and highly mechanized 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 '70s and into the media revolution of the '90s. Cyberculture, ..."
" We can reach every point in the world but, more importantly, we can be reached from any point in the world. Privacy and its possibilities are abolished. Attention is under siege everywhere. Not silence but uninterrupted noise, not the red desert, but a cognitive space overcharged with nervous incentives to act: this is the alienation of our times... -- from The Soul at ..."
Precarious Rhapsody(1st Edition) Semiocapitalism and the Pathologies of Post-Alpha Generation by Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Erik Empson Paperback, 154 Pages, Published 2009 by Autonomedia ISBN-13: 978-1-57027-207-3, ISBN: 1-57027-207-7
"Nonfiction. Criticism and Theory. Political Science. An infinite series of bifurcations: this is how we can tell the story of our life, of our loves, but also the history of revolts, defeats and restorations of order. At any given moment different paths open up in front of us, and we are continually presented with the alternative of going here or going there. Then we decide, we cut out from a set of infinite possibilities and choose a s ..."
"Depression, panic, unhappiness, anxiety, fear, terror—these are the affective
conditions of contemporary labor, the “psycho-bombs” of cognitive capitalism,
each, naturally, with its own psychopharmacology. Nonetheless, we actively
submit ..."
" Speaking Code begins by invoking the "Hello World" convention used by programmers when learning a new language, helping to establish the interplay of text and code that runs through the book. Interweaving the voice of critical writing from the humanities with the tradition of computing and software development, in Speaking Code Geoff Cox formulates an argum ..."
Heroes Mass Murder and Suicide (Futures) by Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Francesco Berardi Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2015 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78168-577-8, ISBN: 1-78168-577-0
"What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? In his most unsettling book to date, Franco “Bifo” Berardi embarks on an exhilarating journey through philosophy, psychoanalysis and current events, searching for the social roots of the mental malaise of our age. Spanning an array of horrors – the Aurora “Joker” killer; Anders Breivik; American school massacres; the suicide epidemic in Korea and Japan; and the recent spate ..."
Breathing Chaos and Poetry by Franco "Bifo" Berardi 160 Pages, Published 2018 by Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-1-63590-049-1, ISBN: 1-63590-049-2
"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."
"A comprehensive philosophy of contemporary life and politics, by one of the sharpest critics of the presentWe 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 ..."
Heroes Mass Murder and Suicide by Franco "Bifo" Berardi 224 Pages, Published 2015 by Verso Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78168-579-2, ISBN: 1-78168-579-7
"the following week five Israelis lost their lives and twenty- one Palestinians were
killedbythe Israel Defense Forces. Yitzhak Rabin ... Hisepitaph read that
Goldstein 'gave his life forthe peopleof Israel, itsTorah and land'. However, after
the ..."
"Focusing on creative experiments in education, Contestations seeks to instigate a conversation about the future direction of education that challenges existing academic models while examining possibilities for strategic intervention and ..."
"Semiotext(e) is pleased to announce Issue 2 of its occasional intellectual journal Animal Shelter, edited by Hedi El Kholti. Fleeting, ephemeral, nondigital, and nonhierarchical, Animal Shelter is, as Alex Gartenfeld wrote in Interview, "a loose collection of texts, sequenced like a mixtape"-focused yet eclectic. Gathered around a long conversation with philosopher Paul Virilio on "The Littoral as Final Frontier," conducted on the first ..."
"The virus also inspired the exhibition “I Love You [rev.eng],” curated by digitalcraft
.org/ Franziska Nori in 2002, at the Museum für angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt
am Main. (See http:// www.digitalcraft.org/iloveyou/index.htm.) A further example
..."
"Nonfiction. Media Studies. European History. Translated from Italian by Jessica Otey. Focusing on Italian "videocracy," ETHEREAL SHADOWS documents the emergence of the first Italian media mogul, Silvio Berlusconi, and his rises and falls from political power. It also explores Italian media activism through three case studies: a discussion of the first autonomous free radio station, Radio Alice (broadcasting in Bologna between 1977 and 1 ..."