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Precarious rhapsody :

(Number (ISBN

1570272077

(Number (ISBN

9781570272073

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b721969

Title Proper

Precarious rhapsody :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

semiocapitalism and the pathologies of the post-alpha generation /

First Statement of Responsibility

Franco "Bifo" Berardi ; [edited by Erik Empson & Stevphen Shukaitis ; translated by Arianna Bove and others].

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Brooklyn, N.Y. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Distributed by Autonomedia,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2009.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

153 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-153).

Text of Note

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 single path. But do we really choose? Is it really a question of a choice, when we go here rather than there? Is it really a choice, when masses go to shopping centers, when revolutions are transformed into massacres, when nations enter into war? It is not we who decide but the concatenations: machines for the liberation of desires and mechanisms of control over the imaginary. The fundamental bifurcation is always this one: between machines for liberating desire and mechanisms of control over the imaginary. In our time of digital mutation, technical automatisms are taking control of the social psyche.

Text of Note

Franco "Bifo" Berardi is a contemporary writer, media-theorist and media-activist. He founded the magazine A/traverso (1975-1981) and was part of the staff of Radio Alice, the first free pirate radio station in Italy (1976-1978). He is author of numerous books, including Cyberpunk, The Panther and the Rbizome, Politics of Mutation, Philosophy and Polities in the Twilight of Modernity, and The Factory of Unhappiness. He is currently collaborating on the magazine DeriveApprodi as well as teaching social history of communication at the Accademia di belle Arti in Milan. --Book Jacket.

Fanaticism.

Political activists.

Radicalism.

Social history-- 1970-

World politics-- 1989-

Fanaticism.

Political activists.

Radicalism.

Social history.

World politics.

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Berardi, Franco.

Bove, Arianna.

Empson, Erik.

Shukaitis, Stevphen.

Date of Transaction

20201208132844.0

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