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Futurability Franco Berardi

Futurability By Franco Berardi

Futurability by Franco Berardi


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A comprehensive philosophy of contemporary life and politics, by one of the sharpest critics of the present

Futurability Summary

Futurability: The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility by Franco Berardi

We live in an age of impotence. Stuck between global war and global finance, between identity and capital, we seem to be incapable of producing the radical change that is so desperately needed. Is there still a way to disentangle ourselves from a global order that shapes our politics as well as our imagination?

In his most systematic book to date, renowned Italian theorist Franco Berardi tackles this question through a solid yet visionary analysis of the three fundamental concepts of Possibility, Potency, and Power. Characterizing Possibility as the content, Potency as the energy, and Power as the form, Berardi suggests that the road to emancipation unravels from the awareness that the field of the possible is only limited, and not created, by the power structures that implement it. Other futures and other worlds are always already inscribed within the present, despite power's attempt at keeping them invisible. Overcoming any temptation of giving in to despair or nostalgia, Berardi proposes the notion of Futurability as a way to remind us that even within the darkness of our current crisis lies dormant the horizon of possibility.

Futurability Reviews

As a diagnostician, Berardi is among the sharpest. * Slate *
(PRAISE FOR HEROES) Does more than merely scratch the surface ... ultimately, Bifo advocates
for the limitless power of imagination and irony as the only antidotes
in a world urging to be rebuilt from scratch. * Bookslut *
(PRAISE FOR HEROES) An exquisite reading of our historical situation. -- Michael Robbins * Chicago Tribune *
(PRAISE FOR HEROES) Bifo is a master of global activism in the age of depression. His mission is
to understand real existing capitalism. Sense the despair of the
revolt, enjoy this brilliant 'labour of the negative'! -- Geert Lovink, Founding Director of the Institute of Network Cultures

About Franco Berardi

Franco Bifo Berardi was the founder of the pirate radio station Radio Alice in 1976. One of the most prominent members of Autonomia, Berardi worked closely with the French psychoanalyst Felix Guattari throughout the 1980s. His latest books in English are The Soul at Work: from Alienation to Autonomy; The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance; After the Future; and Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide.

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GOR011692161
9781784787431
1784787434
Futurability: The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility by Franco Berardi
Used - Good
Hardback
Verso Books
2017-05-23
256
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