Chaos and the Automaton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berardi, Franco.

Series:

E-Flux Series

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2025.

Summary:

Facing real threats of extinction and futurelessness, a search for new ground on which to build projects toward emancipation Chaos and the Automaton is the first volume to collect Franco "Bifo" Berardi's extensive collaboration with e-flux, which has become one of his primary English-language publishers since 2010. The selection of key essays collected here presents Berardi's prescient interventions into more than a decade of social turmoil, offering a tour through the cataclysms that have rocked the foundations of the global order since the 2008 financial crisis, from European austerity, Occupy, the Arab Spring, and Anonymous through the ascendance of Pope Francis, Brexit, Covid-19, the Trump-Biden sequence, the U.S. Capitol riots, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine--as well as bizarre new cultural occurrences that were consequences. Berardi draws not only from current events but also movements and figures at the firmament of his thought, such as Guattari, Pasolini, and Italian street art of the 1970s. His essays represent a sustained and singular effort to reveal the psychic and material underpinnings of a society in which history came roaring back at the same moment as any vision of a sustainable future receded from sight. "I know that it is dangerous to write in simultaneity with events that nobody can precisely foresee, that can only be vaguely intuited," he wrote on the eve of the 2020 American elections, "but the only way to imagine something about the becoming of the psycho-sphere is to run ahead of the dynamics of the disaster."

Contents:

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Introduction: Interview with Andreas Petrossiants (2023)

Cognitarian Subjectivation (2010)

Exhaustion and Senile UTOPIA: The European Psychosphere (2010)

Nightmares and Screens (2012)

Pasolini in Tottenham (2013)

Accelerationism Questioned from the Point of View of the Body (2013)

The Neuroplastic Dilemma: Consciousness and Evolution (2014)

The Message of Francis (2015)

Global Civil War: Is There Any Way Out? (2016)

Blu's Iconoclasm: After Dada (2016)

Engineering Self (2016)

The Coming '17 (2016)

The Second Coming (2017)

The Comeback of the Event as Terror and Dementia (2018)

General Intellect and the Termination Machine (2018)

(Sensitive) Consciousness and Time: Against the Transhumanist Utopia (2019)

Desire, Pleasure, Senility, and Evolution (2020)

The American Abyss (2020)

More on the American ABYSS (2021)

Cosmism and Extinction (2021)

Desire, Energy, Exhaustion in the Post-Pandemic Landscape (2021)

Hyperworld, Metaworld, and the End of the World (2022)

War and Senile Dementia (2022)

The Serpent's Egg (2022)

Mental Long Covid and the Techno-Social Unconscious: A Conversation with Geert Lovink (2022)

Hyper-Semiotization and the Desexualization of Desire: On Félix Guattari (2023)

Unheimlich: The Spiral of Chaos and the Cognitive Automaton (2023)

Sensuous Senescence (2023)

The Completion (2023)

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ISBN:

1-4529-7177-3

OCLC:

1512334006