Franco Berardi Bifo is a contemporary writer, media-theorist and media-activist. He founded the magazine A/traverso (1975-1981) and was part of the staff of Radio Alice, the first free pirate radio station in Italy (1976-1978). Like others Involved in the political movement of Autonomia in Italy during the 1970's, he fled to Paris, where he worked with Felix Guattari in the field of schizoanalysis. During the 1980's he contributed to the magazines Semiotexte (New York), Chimerees (Paris), Metropoli (Rome) and Musica 80 (Milan). In the 1990's he published Mutazione e Ciberpunk (Genoa, 1993), Cibernauti (Rome, 1994), and Felix (Rome, 2001). He is currently collaborating on the magazine Derive Approdi as well as teaching social history of communication at the Accademia di belle Arti in Milan. He is the co-founder of the e-zine rekombinant.org and the telestreet phenomenon.
Futurism and the reversal of the future
The media utopia of the avant-garde
Communism is back and we should call it the therapy of singularisation
The obsession with identity fascism
The insurgence of European Precariaat
The warrior, the merchant and the sage
Precarious Rhapsody (Entire book online)
Biopolitics and connective mutation (published on CultureMachine)
Responses to the Californian ideology (published on the Hypermedia Research Centre)
The last novel of the 20th century (Bifo reviews Luther Blisset's Q)
Felix
and Alice in Wonderland:
The Encounter between Guattari and Berardi and the Post-Media Era -
Michael Goddard
Interviews:
Disobedience and cognitariat: a conversation with Franco Berardi (pdf)
Interview with Hoeksteen on the telestreet phenomenon
Net culture, new media and the social body (Interview with world-information.org)
Cognitariat and Semiokapital (Interview with Matthew Fuller on The Factory of Unhappiness, 2001)
Interview with Massarini on Italian TV
Videofiles:
Videofile of Bifo's presentation at the Theaterformen festival in Brunswick on June 6, 2004
Videofile of Bifo's presentation at the DarkMarkets conference in Vienna
What is the meaning of autonomy today? (published on republicart. 2003)
Numerous articles by Bifo in Italian and French can be found on the journal Multitudes
The nomadology of Franco Berardi - by Maurizio Viano (en)
Félix Guattari. Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography (London: Palgrave, 2008)
Precarious Rhapsody. Semio-capitalism and the Pathologies of the Post-Alpha Generation (London: Autonomedia, 2009)
Ethereal Shadows: Communications and Power in Contemporary Italy (with Marco Jacquement, New York: Autonomedia, forthcoming)
Il sapiente, il mercante, il guerriero: dal rifiuto del lavoro all'emergere del cognitariato (DeriveApprodi, 2004)
Telestreet. Macchina immaginativa non omologata (with Jacquement e Vitali, Baldini Castoldi Dalai, 2003)
Alice è il diavolo. Storia di una radio sovversiva (Shake, 2002)
Un'estate all'inferno (Luca Sossella Editore, 2002)
Felix (Luca Sossella Editore, 2001)
La fabbrica dell'infelicità (DeriveApprodi, 2001)
La nefasta utopia di Potere Operaio (Castelvecchi, 1997)
Exit, il nostro contributo all'estinzione della civilta
Cibernauti (Castelvecchi, 1995)
Come si cura il nazi, Neuromagma (1994)
Mutazione e cyberpunk (1993)
Piu' cyber che punk (1990)
Infovirus. Topia (1985)
Enfin le ciel est tombè sur la terre (Seuil, 1978)
Contro il lavoro (Feltrinelli, 1970)
