Franco Berardi

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Franco Berardi during an interview with Ràdio Web MACBA, 2013
Franco Berardi, Boston University 2016

Franco "Bifo" Berardi (born November 2, 1948 (according to other information 1949) in Bologna , Italy ) is an Italian Marxist writer, philosopher and activist in the tradition of the Autonomous . His work mainly focuses on the role of media and information technology in post-industrial capitalism . Berardi wrote more than two dozen books and a large number of essays and speeches.

Creative work and activism

At the age of 14, Berardi became a member of the Federazione Giovanile Comunista Italiana (FGCI), the youth organization of the Italian Communist Party , in 1962 , but was excluded again because of "factionalism". He took part in the events of May 1968 at the University of Bologna , where he graduated with Luciano Anceschi with a degree in aesthetics. During this time he joined the extra-parliamentary Potere Operaio . Berardi founded A / traverso magazine in 1975 and worked on it until 1981 when it reached its maximum circulation. He was also part of Radio Alice , Italy's first free radio from 1976 to 1978.

Like many others who were active in Italy's autonomous movement during the 1970s, Berardi fled to Paris , where he worked with Félix Guattari in the field of schizoanalysis , an alternative psychoanalysis. During the 1980s he wrote for the magazines Semiotexts (New York), Chimerees (Paris), Metropoli (Rome) and Musica 80 (Milan). In the 1990s he published Mutazione e Ciberpunk (Genoa, 1993), Cibernauti (Rome, 1994) and Félix (Rome, 2001). In the field of contemporary art he also worked with artists such as Warren Neidich and publications such as the e-flux journal . In 2015 he works with the magazine Derive Approdi and teaches social history of communication at the Accademia di belle Arti in Milan.

He is co-founder of the e-zine rekombinant.org and founder of the television channel Orfeo TV , the first of the Telestreet movement, which consists of almost 100 pirate TV channels and a member of the movement Democracy in Europe 2025 .

Bibliography (selection)

Books

  • Heroes. About mass murder and suicide . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95757-237-0 . Original title: Heroes , translated by K. Vennemann.
  • Der Aufstand - On Poetry and Finance , Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin, 2015, ISBN 978-3-95757-092-5
    Original: The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance. Semiotext (e) / Intervention Series, 2012.
  • Ed. Gary Genosko and Nicholas Thoburn. After the future. AK Press, 2011.
  • The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy. Translator: Francesca Cadel and Giuseppina Mecchia, with preface by Jason E. Smith. Los Angeles, CA: Semi-Texts, 2009.
  • With Marco Jacquement and Gianfranco Vitali. Ethereal Shadows: Communications and Power in Contemporary Italy. London: Autonomedia, 2009.
  • Precarious Rhapsody. Semio-capitalism and the Pathologies of the Post-Alpha Generation. London: Autonomedia, 2009.
  • Sketchomedia. Trent'anni di mediattivismo. Untranslated: Schizomedia: Thirty Years of Media Activism. Rome: Derive Approdi, 2006.
  • Il sapiente, il mercante, il guerriero: dal rifiuto del lavoro all'emergere del cognitariato Untranslated: The Warrior, The Merchant, and the Sage: the Emergence of the Cognitariat Refusal of Work. Rome: DeriveApprodi, 2004.
  • With Jacquement e Vitali and Baldini Castoldi Dalai. Telestreet. Macchina immaginativa non omologata. Untranslated: Telestreet: Machine Imagination Not Approved. 2003.
  • Alice is the devil: Practice of a subversive communication Radio Alice (Bologna) , Merve Verlag, Berlin 1977. Original title: Alice è il diavolo. Storia di una radio sovversiva.
  • Un'estate all'inferno. Untranslated: Summer in Hell. Ed. Luca Sossella. 2002.
  • Felix. Narrazione del mio incontro con il pensiero di Guattari, cartografia visionaria del tempo che viene. Translated: Félix Guattari. Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography. London: Palgrave, 2008.
  • La fabbrica dell'infelicita '. New economy e movimento del cognitariato. Untranslated: The Factory of Unhappiness: New Economy and Movement of the Cognitariat. Rome: DeriveApprodi, 2001.
  • La nefasta utopia di Potere Operaio. Untranslated: The Ominous Utopia of Workers' Power. Castelvecchi, 1997.
  • Exit, il nostro contributo all'estinzione della civilta. Untranslated: Exit - Our Contribution to the Extinction of Civilization.
  • Cibernauti. Untranslated: Cybernauts. Castelvecchi, 1995.
  • Come si cura il nazi, Neuromagma. Untranslated: How is the Nazi, Neuromagma. 1994.
  • Mutazione e cyberpunk. Untranslated: Mutation and Cyberpunk. 1993.
  • Piu 'cyber che punk. Untranslated: More Cyber ​​Punk. 1990.
  • Infovirus. Untranslated. Topia. 1985.
  • Enfin le ciel est tombè sur la terre. Untranslated: Finally the Sky Fell to the Earth. Seuil, 1978.
  • Contro il lavoro. Untranslated: Against Work. Milano: Feltrinelli, 1970.

Essays and speeches

Filmography

  • 1991: The Move (documentary). Director: Renato de Maria

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franco "Bifo" Berardi on matthes-seitz-berlin.de, accessed on August 25, 2017
  2. ↑ Biography on Generation-Online.
  3. ^ Movement website
personal data
SURNAME Berardi, Franco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berardi, Bifo (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian autonomist, artist and post-structuralist or post-Marxist writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Bologna , Italy