Does Europe have any future? - workshop with Franco Bifo Berardi:
Wednesday 25 Apr, 19.00 - House of the People (MNAC)
Biography:
Franco Berardi “Bifo” is a contemporary writer, autonomist theorist and media-activist. Founder of the magazine A/traverso (1975-1981), he took part in the staff of Radio Alice, the first free radio station in Italy (1976/1978). He was involved in the political movement of autonomia in Italy during the 1970s. He worked with Felix Guattari, in the field of schizoanalysis.
His work analyzes the role of media and information technology in post-industrial capitalism, in particular drawing from schizoanalysis and aesthetics to investigate processes of subjectification within precarious labor. Human emotions and embodied communication becomes increasingly central to the production and consumption patterns that sustain capital flows in post-industrial society, and as such Berardi uses the concepts of "cognitariat" and "info labour" to analyze this psycho-social process. In his recent book, After the Future, he tries to prefigure what can come after our present end of the future. He has written extensively on exhaustion, senility, depression and the end of the European project.
with the support of Goethe-Institut Bucuresti & MNAC
