عنوان

After the future /

(Number (ISBN

1849350590

(Number (ISBN

9781849350594

Number

b422384

Title Proper

After the future /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Franco "Bifo" Berardi ; edited by Gary Genosko and Nicholas Thoburn ; translated by Arianna Bove ... [et al.]

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Baltimore, MD :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

AK Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2011

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

185 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

21 cm

Text of Note

"Portions of this book have appeared in different form in Precarious Rhapsody: Semiocapitalism and the Pathologies of Post-Alpha Generation (Minor Compositions, 2009) and The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy (Semiotext(e), 2009)."--T.p. verso

Text of Note

Includes an interview with Franco "Bifo" Berardi by Gary Genosko and Nicholas Thoburn, conducted by email in spring 2010

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p.182-185)

Text of Note

The transversal communism of Franco Beradi -- The century that trusted in the future -- The zero zero decade -- Baroque and semiocapital -- Exhaustion and subjectivity -- Interview with Franco "Bifo" Berardi

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Text of Note

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, the last truly utopian vision of the future, has ended in a clash, and left behind an ever-growing system of virtual life and actual death, of virtual knowledge and actual war. Our future, Berardi argues, has come and gone; the concept has lost its usefulness. Now it's our responsibility to decide what comes next. Drawing on his own involvement with the Autonomia movement in Italy and his collaboration and friendship with leading thinkers of the European political left, including Félix Guattari and Antonio Negri, Berardi presents a highly nuanced analysis of the state of the contemporary working class, and charts a course out of the modern dystopian moment. Franco Berardi, better known in the United States as "Bifo", is an Italian autonomist philosopher and media activist. One of the founders of the notorious Radio Alice, a pirate radio station that became the voice of the autonomous youth movement of Bologna in the late 1970s, Bifo is the author of multiple works of theory, including the recently published The Soul at Work and "The Post-Futurist Manifesto."--Publisher's website

Berardi, Franco

Autonomism

Civilization, Modern-- 20th century

Civilization, Modern-- 21st century

Communism-- Italy

Futurism (Literary movement)-- Italy

Mass media-- Political aspects

Political activists-- Italy

Political science-- Philosophy-- 20th century

Political science-- Philosophy-- 21st century

Political sociology-- 21st century

Radicalism-- Italy

Social history-- 1970-

Technological innovations-- Social aspects

Working class-- History

World politics-- 1989-

Class number

Class number

Book number

Book number

Berardi, Franco

Genosko, Gary

Thoburn, Nicholas,1970-

Date of Transaction

20111028101222.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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