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Bifo, "Of the Danger of Love, Refusal of Labor, and the Beauty of Autonomy," NYC, 3/3003/30/2009 - 19:30 03/30/2009 - 22:00 Etc/GMT-5 Of the Danger of Love, Refusal of Labor, and the Beauty of Autonomy -Proliferating and losing oneself. This was the sense of the collective enterprise that the movement was attempting in Italy at the time. –Franco Berardi Please join The Change You Want To See Gallery for a conversation with renowned philosopher, media activist and cultural agitator Franco Berardi (aka Bifo) and media theorist MacKenzie Wark, author of Game Theory and A Hacker's Manifesto. Bifo has been a pivotal figure in Italian social movements for the past 40 years. He co-founded the legendary Radio Alice (1977), the first pirate radio station in Italy, the magazine A/Traverso (1977-81), and Rekombinant (2000), an online network environment that focuses on radical philosophy, urban conflicts, media activism, networking art, knowledge economy, western psychopathology, autonomous universities, and institutions of the common. More recently he produced the autonomous street television network Orfeo TV (2002), which sparked a national network of pirate micro TV stations to counter the media monopoly of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. This event marks the long-awaited publication of the first two Bifo’s books in English: Felix Guattari: Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography (Palgrave, 2008); and Ethereal Shadows: Communication and Power in Contemporary Italy (with Marco Jacquemet and Gianfranco Vitali, Autonomedia, 2009). The evening will be moderated by Marco Deseriis, member of Not An Alternative and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. The Change You Want To See Gallery About Franco Berardi Bifo As a result of the repression of the autonomist movement in Italy in the late seventies, Bifo fled to Paris, where he worked with Félix Guattari in the field of schizoanalysis. During this time he wrote for the Chimeres journal in Paris, the Semiotext[e] journal in New York, and the Musica 80 journal in Milan. Bifo has authored numerous books, including Cyberpunk, The Panther and the Rhizome, Politics of Mutation, Philosophy and Politics in the Twilight of Modernity, and The Factory of Unhappiness. He recently authored the Post-Futurist Manifesto, available at http://www.generation-online.org/p/fp_bifo5.htm. Since the 1990’s Bifo has focused on the changing nature of capitalism and its use of communication technology and culture within a new regime of production. Bifo’s political practice intersects with the theoretical and conceptual terrain of Guattari’s writings to rethink individual and collective processes of subjectivation along with the material and semiotic transformations of the mediascape. Like other Italian autonomists such as Christian Marazzi, Paolo Virno, and Antonio Negri, Bifo emphasizes the growing autonomy of immaterial workers from waged labor, and the intimate connection between the linguistic and affective qualities of immaterial labor and the booms and busts of semiocapitalism. About McKenzie Wark |
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