After the Future - Franco Bifo Berardi

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      Edited by Gary Genosko and Nicholas Thoburn

      Translated by Arianna Bove, Melinda Cooper, Erik Empson, Enrico,

      Giuseppina Mecchia, and Tiziana Terranova

       After the Future

      By Franco Berardi

      Edited by Gary Genosko and Nicholas Thoburn

      © 2011 Franco Berardi

      Preface © 2011 Gary Genosko and Nicholas Thoburn

      This edition © 2011 AK Press (Edinburgh, Oakland, Baltimore)

      ISBN-13: 978-1-84935-060-0

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011920477

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      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).

      CONTENTS

       Gary Genosko and Nicholas Thoburn

       Cursed Be the Prophet

       The Last Utopia

       Inversion of the Future

      Chapter Two: The Zero Zero Decade

       From Seattle to Copenhagen

       On the Brink of Disaster

       After the Dotcom Crash

       The Fuzzy Economy of Cognitive Labor

       Infolabor and Precarization

       City of Panic

      Chapter Three: Baroque and Semiocapital

       Lumpen Italian

       Language and Poison

       The Italian Anomaly

       Shirkers

       Aleatory Value in Neo-Baroque Society

       Self Despise

      Chapter Four: Exhaustion and Subjectivity

       Precarious Future

       Exhaustion: Rereading Baudrillard

       Necronomy

       Singularity Insurrection

       When Old People Fall in Love

       Happy End

       After Futurism

      Appendix: Interview with Franco “Bifo” Berardi

       Bibliography

      

       gary genosko and nicholas thoburn

      WHAT HAPPENS to political thought, practice, and imagination when it loses hold on “the future”? It goes into crisis. The analytic, psychological, and libidinal structures of twentieth-century revolutionary politics were beholden to the temporal form of the future—it even gave the first movement of the avant-garde its name: Futurism. The future was on the side of the revolution. It was a great and empowering myth, but few believe it any longer: the future is over. Its last vestiges were squandered in the schemes of a heavily futurized financial capitalism.

      This is Franco Berardi’s radical diagnosis. It is a clinical diagnosis as much as it is a political one, for Berardi traces the symptoms of the end of the future across the social and corporeal body. Cognitive, affective, linguistic,

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