The Department of
Social Science and Cultural Studies
Speakers Series
2012-2013
presents
Franco Berardi Bifo
on
Uprising, Poetry, and Finance
presents
Franco Berardi Bifo
on
Uprising, Poetry, and Finance
Franco Berardi Bifo, Wednesday, November 14th
at 5pm (Engineering Building, Room 307)
Uprising, Poetry, and Finance
Abstract:
The relation between language and financial power, and the process of
de-referencialization of semiotic signs in the poetry of the XIX and
XXth Century (from Symbolism to Futurism to Ermetism and so on). But
also the relation between the social revolt against financial
domination and the place of poetry as social activation of the
cognitarian body.
Franco Berardi Bifo is a writer, theorist and political activist. He
founded the magazine A/traverso
(1975–81) and was part of the staff of Radio Alice, the first free
pirate radio station in Italy (1976–78). Involved in the political
movement of Autonomia in Italy during the 1970s, he fled to Paris,
where he worked with Félix Guattari in the field of
schizoanalysis. Bifo published the books After
the future (2011), The
Soul at Work (2010),
Felix
(2001), Cibernauti
(1994), Mutazione
e Cyberpunk (1993) and
contributed to the magazines Semiotext(e),
Chimères,
Metropoli,
and Musica 80.
He is currently teaching at the European School for Social
Imagination, in San Marino.
For those not familiar with his work, these essays should serve as a nice introduction.
"Info-Labor and Precarisation"
http://www.generation-online.org/t/tinfolabour.htm
"What is the Meaning of Autonomy Today"
http://republicart.net/disc/realpublicspaces/berardi01_en.htm
For those not familiar with his work, these essays should serve as a nice introduction.
"Info-Labor and Precarisation"
http://www.generation-online.org/t/tinfolabour.htm
"What is the Meaning of Autonomy Today"
http://republicart.net/disc/realpublicspaces/berardi01_en.htm
