Hi Anne and list, Actually, as you pointed out, Bifo is a master in analyzing the contemporary forms of immaterial and information-related alienation.
Probably he meant that: capital is composing an almost unbearable puzzle of alienating practices for the social class that he defines as the "cognitariat". There's a specific piece of this puzzle related to women, and it is distancing her from their young babies in various ways. In post-pregnancy, for example, she has to return to work when the baby is 3 months old (or even before), usually she works distant from home, and usually she has to work full time or even more regardless of her condition, especially in private companies). That's worst then it used to be. All of the above sums up to her non-physical work in front of a screen. So her important physical relationship with the baby is more than ever reduced, and her body is even more physically deprived, because she's using only hands on a keyboard with an overstimulation of the "soul", as Bifo defines it in his latest book "The Soul at Work" (review http://www.neural.it/art/2010/04/franco_bifo_berardi_the_soul_a.phtml) In my humble opinion, Alessandro Ludovico >Lately I have been reading "Precarious Rhapsody" by Franco "Bifo" >Berardi. It was very interesting to read and gave me the feeling of >finally meeting a "new" perspective and an original thinker on >capitalism, sickness, work, boredom, terror and error, machines and >even poetry. > >There is one phrase that I can't forget : >"In neoliberal society women are forced to work away from home, and >so they are distanced from their babies, in conditions of >psycho-psysical stress, anxiety and affective impoverishment." >What does this mean? >Does Berardi want women to stay at home? > >Anyone on this list that knows his work and writing better than I do >ca, shed some light? > >Yours >Annie Abrahams > > >-- >Documentation Huis Clos / No Exit - On Collaboration - ><http://bram.org/huisclos/oncollaboration/>http://bram.org/huisclos/oncollaboration/ >loK8Tr, Matthew Pioro, about the dangers and pitfalls of online >collaboration ><http://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/about-the-dangers-and-pitfalls-of-online-collaboration/>http://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/about-the-dangers-and-pitfalls-of-online-collaboration/ > >#avg_ls_inline_popup { position:absolute; z-index:9999; padding: 0px >0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 240px; overflow: >hidden; word-wrap: break-word; color: black; font-size: 10px; >text-align: left; line-height: 13px;} > >_______________________________________________ >NetBehaviour mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- Alessandro Ludovico - Neural - english (http://neural.it/) italian (http://www.neural.it/neural_it/) Latest Issue (#35 + extra) - http://www.neural.it/art/2010/03/neural_35_friends.phtml Subscribe - http://www.neural.it/subscribe.phtml - Twitter: http://twitter.com/_neural Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=41374986391&ref=ts _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
