Communism
is back and we
should call it
singularity

 

A book launch and discussion with Franco Berardi aka Bifo

5pm Friday, February 27th in the Octagon Room, People's Palace @ Queen Mary,
University of London, Mile End Road, E1 4NS

The event marks the first and long awaited
publication of his work in English: Félix Guattari. Thought, Friendship, and Visionary
Cartography (London: Palgrave, 2008), and Precarious Rhapsody. Semio-capitalism and the
Pathologies of the Post-Alpha Generation (London: Autonomedia, forthcoming).  The launch
will be followed by a social evening at the Freedom Bookshop, Angel Alley, 84b
Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX. All welcome.

"One hundred years ago Marinetti published the Manifesto of Futurism. It inaugurated a
century that believed in the future - initiating a process where the collective organism
became machine-like. This becoming-machine has reached its finale with the concatenations
of the global web and is now being overturned by the collapse of a financial system
founded on the futurisation of the economy, debt and economic promise. That promise is
over. The era of post-future has begun." From the Manifesto of Post-Futurism


"Gilles Deleuze was welcomed into the reception room of university respectability, while
Félix Guattari was left out. He was not an academic and he mixed with the wrong crowd.
Guattari without Deleuze built a philosophical style out of his psychiatric practice, his
work as a political militant, and his training in biology and pharmacology. To the
rhizomatic machine Guattari brought the concrete micro-material of his inquiry, the
molecular method of 'cut-up', montage, decomposition and recomposition, and combinatory
creation. The crystalline acuity of the Deleuzian philosophical razor combined with the
Guattarian material swarm of bio-informational principles form the rhizomatic machine."
From Félix Guattari. Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography.

Franco is a writer, critic, and pioneer media theorist. Like others involved in the
Italian political movement of Autonomia, during the 1970s he fled to Paris, where he
worked with Félix Guattari in the field of schizoanalysis. He is the co-founder of the
e-zine rekombinant.org and the free television network Telestreet. He is also
Professor of Social History of Communication at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Milan. For
more information and writings by the author, look here .

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