Franco Bifo Berardi 
After the Future [EPUB ebook] 

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.

Cuprins

Preface: The Transversal Communism of Franco Berardi, by Gary Genosko and Nicholas Thoburn


Introduction by Franco Berardi


1. The Century that Trusted in the Future

Futurism and the Reversal of the Future

The Media Utopia of the Avant-Garde

Zaum and Technomaya

Activism

Connection and Sensibility

End of the Future

Cursed Be the Prophet

The Last Utopia

Inversion of the Future


2. 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 Precarisation

City of Panic


3. Baroque and Semiocapital

Lumpen Italian

Language and Poison

The Italian Anomaly

Shirkers

Aleatory Value in Neo-Baroque Society

Self Despise


4. Exhaustion and Subjectivity

Precarious Future

Exhaustion: Re-reading Baudrillard

Necronomy

Singularity Insurrection

When Old People Fall in Love

Happy End

After Futurism


Appendix: Interview with Franco Berardi


Bibliography

Despre autor

Franco Bifo Berardi: Franco Berardi, better-known in the United States as ‘Bifo, ‘ is an Italian autonomist philosopher and media activist. One of the founders of the seminal Radio Alice, a notorious pirate radio station that became the voice of the student movement in Italy throughout the 1970s, Bifo is the author of multiple works of theory including the recently-published The Soul at Work (Semiotexte 2009) and ‘The Post-Futurist Manifesto.’