Communism is back and we should call it singularity
Feb 25, 2009 Politics
A book launch and discussion with Franco Berardi aka Bifo
5pm Friday, February 27th in the Octagon Room, People’s Palace @ Queen Mary,
University of London, Mile End Road, E1 4NS
The event marks the first and long awaited publication of his work in English: Félix Guattari. Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography (London: Palgrave, 2008), and Precarious Rhapsody. Semio-capitalism and the Pathologies of the Post-Alpha Generation (London: Autonomedia, forthcoming). The launch will be followed by a social evening at the Freedom Bookshop, Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX. All welcome.
“One hundred years ago Marinetti published the Manifesto of Futurism. It inaugurated a century that believed in the future – initiating a process where the collective organism became machine-like. This becoming-machine has reached its finale with the concatenations of the global web and is now being overturned by the collapse of a financial system
founded on the futurisation of the economy, debt and economic promise. That promise is over. The era of post-future has begun.” From the Manifesto of Post-Futurism
“Gilles Deleuze was welcomed into the reception room of university respectability, while Félix Guattari was left out. He was not an academic and he mixed with the wrong crowd. Guattari without Deleuze built a philosophical style out of his psychiatric practice, his work as a political militant, and his training in biology and pharmacology. To the rhizomatic machine Guattari brought the concrete micro-material of his inquiry, the molecular method of ‘cut-up’, montage, decomposition and recomposition, and combinatory creation. The crystalline acuity of the Deleuzian philosophical razor combined with the Guattarian material swarm of bio-informational principles form the rhizomatic machine.”
From Félix Guattari. Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography.
Franco is a writer, critic, and pioneer media theorist. Like others involved in the Italian political movement of Autonomia, during the 1970s he fled to Paris, where he worked with Félix Guattari in the field of schizoanalysis. He is the co-founder of the e-zine rekombinant.org and the free television network Telestreet. He is also Professor of Social History of Communication at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Milan. For more information and writings by the author, look here .
Tags: 2009, Bifo, Cartography, Communism, english, Félix Guattari, Franco Berardi, Futurism, Gilles Deleuze
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