Franco Bifo Berardi

A wide-ranging exploration of the present, and the future, of the Unconcious The Unconscious knows no time, it has no before-and-after, it does not have a history of its own. Yet, it does not always remain the same. Different political and economic conditions transform the way in which the Unconscious emerges within the "psychosphere" of society. In the early 20th century, Freud characterized the Unconscious as the dark side of the well-order framework of Progress and Reason. At the end of the past century, Deleuze and Guattari described it as a laboratory: the magmatic force ceaselessly bringing to the fore new possibilities of imagination. Today, at a time of viral pandemics and in the midst of the catastrophic collapse of capitalism, the Unconscious has begun to emerge in yet another form. 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 therapy.

The Third Unconscious

Futurabilità

A call to imagine a less deadly future, written in the shadow of genocide and “ferocious optimism.” After Gaza, it is time to recognize that the attempt to humanize history has failed, and that there will not be a second try. It is time to recognize that the experiment called “civilization” has failed… The abyss is wide open and we cannot help but see it. We must gaze into the abyss, we must gauge the breadth and depth of the abyss. We must draw a map of the abyss, while precipitously falling into it. “Thinking after Gaza” means recognizing the collapse of universal reason and democracy, the humanistic values that were the famed—and fragile—promise of modernity. But it also means searching for ways to escape the grim future awaiting those born in this disenchanted century: this century that promises to be the last, in which thought has lost all political power and the survival instinct struggles to withstand the ferocity of techno-military extermination machines. To the generation born in the twilight of Western civilization, we owe this last act of thinking, so as to imagine the desertion of our barbaric present, along pathways that have yet to be illuminated. The latest essay by renowned Italian autonomist theorist Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Thinking After Gaza is a reflection on the multivalent consequences—political, philosophical, civilizational—of the current genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. Bearing sober witness to the conditions on the ground in the Occupied Territories, while tracking the “ferocious optimism” that has replaced Enlightenment ideals, this book is addressed not only to activists but also to pacifist philosophers, historians, and theologians.

An Essay on Ferocity

Thinking Gaza

Heroes. Suicidio e omicidi di massa

Félix Guattari

Paolo Bertetto

Entre julho e setembro de 1977, Paolo Bertetto, Franco Bifo Berardi e Félix Guattari se encontraram para conversas que imediatamente foram transcritas e publicadas na Itália. O livro, intitulado Desiderio e Rivoluzione ganha, agora, sua primeira versão em português, traduzida por Vladimir Moreira Lima, que organiza, também, o volume com textos relacionados à conversa e situa os leitores perante a explosiva situação italiana e francesa, que vivia os espólios do "momento 68". Entre concordâncias e discordâncias, Bertetto, Bifo e Guattari falam da falência de uma certa política, do fim do mito de pureza do internacionalismo socialista, de microfascismo, subjetividade, classe, processos esquizo e inúmeros temas que se conjugam num mosaico de ideias e conceitos de dois pensadores centrais da segunda metade do século XX. Como argumenta Bifo, em entrevista com o organizador, exclusiva para essa edição, os pensamentos presentes na conversa trazem à tona uma "sensibilidade como capacidade de navegar o caos, o infinitamente complexo". Assim, para além de simplificações e abstrações metafísicas, conjugam-se potências que escapam ao comum, na epiderme das relações que perfazem as maquinações e produções de desejo.

Desejo e revolução

After the Future explores a century-long obsession with the concept of the "future," starting with Marinetti's "Futurist Manifesto," tracing it through the punk movement of the early 70s, and into the media revolution of the 90s. The future, Bifo argues, has come and gone, the concept has lost its usefulness. Now it's our responsibility to decide what comes next.

Franco Bifo Berardi

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