A discussion with Franco Berardi aka Bifo http://generation-online.org/other/events/bifocom.htm
The event marks the centenary since the publication of the Manifesto of Futurism and the first and long awaited publication of Bifo's 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 discussion will be followed by a social evening at the Freedom Bookshop, Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX. Everyone is 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. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
